Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
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The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Read more...The Karl Marx Question
Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?
Read more...U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work?
The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.
Read more...“BRICS Are the New Defenders of Free Trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank” and Supporting Genocide by Continuing to Trade with Israel
Discussions of how BRICS is not living up to its lofty promises and is on the path to supporting neoliberalism and hegemony in new clothes
Read more...Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate
Poland-Ukraine frictions are at odds with some possible end-of-Ukraine-conflict schemes.
Read more...Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US
Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labor. It’s time to finish abolition
Read more...How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK
The Government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern
Read more...How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
How student loans became a vehicle for higher educational profiteering and exploitation of students.
Read more...Satyajit Das: On Reading – Textual Pleasures
On the role of reading, particulalry for book lovers.
Read more...Coffee Break: Vaccine “Side Effects,” Outdated Theory of Disease, “Life” on Mars, and More on Liberalism
Part the First: Unintended Side Effects of Vaccines. From Science-Based Medicine this week: Unintended Side Effects HPV and Shingles Vaccines—Reason for Concern. This headline is genius in its indirection: Emerging trends in the peer-reviewed scientific literature show new evidence of unintended effects of two popular vaccines—the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and shingles vaccines. Surprising findings […]
Read more...“Inflaming Tensions, Trump Threatens Political Left With Retribution Over Killing of Charlie Kirk”
Conservatives are baying for ritual sacrificies on the “radical left” over the murder of Charlie Kirk. How far will the blood lust go?
Read more...If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?
The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?
Read more...Today’s Political Nihilism: NYC Mayor’s Race as a Case Study
How top Democrats’ posture towards NYC mayoral race leader Zohran Mamdani exemplifies the party’s nihilism.
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