Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Medea Benjamin provides a gripping on-the-ground report of how conditions in Cuba are deteriorating due to the US oil blockage.
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‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
Read more...ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − Accused of Violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th Amendment Rights − Are Testing Whether the Constitution Can Survive
A law professor recaps ICE and DHS violations of the Constitution in Minnesota alone and their import in reversing Federal oversight.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Vijay Prashad: How Hyper-Imperialism Shapes Global Conflict
A rich discussion of how industrial capitalism evolved into imperialism and how its impulses and contradictions are creating more fractures.
Read more...The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy
Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...‘Corruption on a Breathtaking Level’: Report Details Massive Foreign Investment in Trump Crypto Firm
“This was a bribe.”
Read more...Trump Support Negative Even Among White Working Class; Approval of His Agenda at Only 27%
Trump’s approval ratings continue to slide, even before polls register the effect of the ICE executions. But does that mater to him any more?
Read more...ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force – It Is One, and That Makes It Harder to Curb
Why it is important to recognize that ICE is a paramilitary operation. Among other things, they are harder to reform than traditional police.
Read more...Coffee Break: The President Fixes Health Care While Unfixing the Air We Breathe, Among Other Things
Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the United States would have fixed our healthcare system so that job lock and other assorted problems would have vanished. Silly me. I have been eligible for Medicare […]
Read more...Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two
Portland mayor Keith Wilson called on ICE to halt operations pending a probe of its latest shootings. That won’t happen. So what do cities do?
Read more...Satyajit Das: Much Ado About Nothing – Why President Trump’s ‘Big Deals” Are No Big Deals
A clinical look at Trump’s deal hucksterism versus his typical modest-at-best results.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Economic Unravelling of the Political West
Michael Hudson describes the development and progression of America’s economic parasitism.
Read more...Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious
Unpacking the data crime in the new inflation report: a bizarre fall in housing costs, aka Owners Equivalent of Rent, which is 26% of CPI.
Read more...“Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”
The elites, including those in science, seem to think that their loss of legitimacy can be solved by messaging. Good luck with that.
Read more...Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
Why highly unequal societies like the US exhibit falling levels of population-level fitness along side falling support for better healthcare.
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