Michael Hudson Talks with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté About the Broader Ramifications of the US/NATO Conflict with Russia
Michael Hudson expliains how the US hopes to benefit from its proxy war with Russia.
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Links 5/3/2022
Leaked Draft Opinion Shows Supreme Court Set to Strike Down Roe v. Wade
It wasn’t hard to see that this Supreme Court would narrow or overturn Roe v. Wade. But a draft opinion is often an internal lobbying document
Read more...Out of Africa: Rich Continent, Poor People
A new book documents the scale and mechanism of the looting of Africa.
Read more...The Coming EU Embargo of Russian Oil, Russia’s Economic Challenges, and the Question of Operational Capacity
The EU is planning to punch Russia hard with yet another embargo, this of its oil. But will this wind up being more rope a dope?
Read more...CalPERS Drops Long-Term Care Settlement, Which Was Designed to Suck More Money into Ponzi Scheme and Then Fail
How CalPERS set out to further screw its already abused long-term care policyholders.
Read more...Links 4/30/2022
How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks
How young Starbucks staffers are leading the unionization charge.
Read more...Ilargi: Ukraine Warheads
A prescient piece on the trajectory of Ukraine-Russia tensions.
Read more...Assisted Suicide Laws Increase Suicide Rates, Especially Among Women
A study on an important new legal right in some states, assisted suicide, suffers from a glaring methodological flaw.
Read more...Gas Flares: Europe Has a Hissy, Flails About as Russia Imposes Gas Payment Countersanctions and Economies Already Feel Blowback Bite
Russia implements its gas for roubles scheme as promised, cutting off supplies to non-adherents. Howling ensues.
Read more...Public Schools Fray as Pentagon Gets More Pork
More on the sorry state of US public schools and how they got there.
Read more...The Ukraine War Clock Is a Time Bomb – It Blows Up On November 8, US Election Day
Yves here. Helmer gives interlocking updates, one of what can be inferred about the state of the war in Ukraine, the other on the prospects for Team Dem come November. Recall that Helmer was part of the Carter Administration, as so has some perspective. A couple of additions: Helmer provides evidence that Ukraine is regrouping […]
Read more...Various Covid Updates
Some Covid news, not encouraging but not yet alarming.
Read more...Journalist Gonzalo Lira Is Alive and So Is His Bucha Video
We are glad to see confirmation that Gonzalo Lira is alive and are reposting his short-lived but important Bucha video.
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