Michael Hudson: The U.S. Empire’s Plan for Global Domination
Michael Hudson: War on Iran is part of the US empire’s effort to re-impose its dominance on the global political and financial system
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Coffee Break: Funding Medical Education, A Human Ancestor, Tardigrades to the Rescue, Trashing the Earth, Plus MAHA and Measles
Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much. Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]
Read more...Why Flattering Donald Trump Could Be Dangerous
Why power players should not apply their tongues to Trump’s posterior.
Read more...Financial Times on Coming Climate-Change-Driven Meltdown in Real Estate: Gradually, Then Suddenly?
A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...Carl von Clausewitz and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach
An overview of Clausewitz’s thinking winds up showing how the US has ignored it, with the bad results Clausewitz predicted.
Read more...The Israel–Iran Conflict Tests “America First” and Redefines ‘Auctoritas’
Trump’s attack on Iran tests the limits of “America First” and reveals a deeper MAGA divide over who holds legitimate authority—auctoritas
Read more...Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation
An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Middle East Trajectories – Implications for the Region and Energy Markets
A refined (pun intended) discussion of the state of the energy market and the high risk of continued kinetic action between Israel and Iran.
Read more...Why the US and the WTO Should Part Ways
In another sign the old international order is breaking as the US flails about, a serious call for the US to leave the WTO.
Read more...‘Looking Backwards’ and Forward: How Democrats Who Voted for Iraq Cashed In and How It Ensured the Rise of the Imperial Uniparty
Obama’s decision to “look forward” continues to reverberate into our endless wars of the present—and future.
Read more...Rob Urie: Why Did the US Attack Iran?
Rob Urie points out that how many forces the US keeps in theater will reveal its intent with Iran: deescalating versus trying to regroup.
Read more...Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia
Is diminishing Iran key to the famed pivot to Asia, or a distraction?
Read more...Downgrading Uncle Sam, Not America
An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies’ approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
Read more...Israel Orders Attack on Iran After Iran Allegedly Violated Ceasefire It Never Agreed To
Israel is, or is about to be, back into the war-making game. And the US is sure to be in on the action.
Read more...Trump Backfire: How the 2018/19 US Tariffs Against China Boosted Exports and Employment in Mexico
How a Trump 1.0 tarrifs backfire illustrates fundamental flaw in how Trump goes about doing things.
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