Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years studying and thinking about human prehistory.
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A Wee Rant About the State of Travel
Travel is no fun.
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KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken the democracy, economy and rights of Britain.
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Why, as they say in Maine, you can’t get get there from here as far as our green energy plans are concerned.
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There seems to be no escape from looming economic and financial problems, but the officialdom will do it best to delay the reckoning.
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Regulators largely ignore the cloud services industry, despite high concentration, lack of transparency, and potential for predation.
Read more...The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...Russia Seeking UN Security Council Meeting Over Nord Stream “Act of International Terrorism.” What Else Might Russia Do?
Russia is almost required, if nothing else for domestic political reasons, to Do Something about the Nord Stream attacks. But what exactly?
Read more...The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses Debt, Financial Surveillance, the Fed and More With Ralph Nader
Michael Hudson has a wide-ranging talk with Ralph Nader.
Read more...Russian Partial Mobilization: And Then There Were None
Two Russian militarty experts comment on the partial mobilization and what might come next.
Read more...Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.
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