Boston Meetup Reminder for This Thursday, April 25; Announcing Location for Wednesday May 1 Milwaukee Meetup (and Need RSVPs!), Minneapolis Meetup on for Thursday May 2
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Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt Cancellation from Antiquity to Today
Get a cup of coffee. A meaty talk by Michael Hudson, Liz Theoharis, and Aliou Niang on the social and economic logic of debt cancellation back when it was a regular practice.
Read more...Is Trump for Detente or Militarism? – A Talk with Stephen Cohen
Professor Stephen Cohen dicusses Trump’s policies on Russia and China on Real News Network.
Read more...McKinsey: Doing God’s Work in Puerto Rico
McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
Read more...Making American Schools Less Great Again
An on-the-ground report from a teacher in Beverton on how the war on schools’ funding is leading teachers to strike.
Read more...The Anti-Sanders Press Influenced the 2016 Primary. Will It Do the Same Again?
Can Sanders supporters counter a hostile media?
Read more...Meetup Reminders! Boston, This Thursday, April 25; Announcing Location for Minneapolis Meetup, Thursday May 2; Still Seeking Location for Milwaukee Meetup Wednesday May 1
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Read more...Links 4/18/19
Report: Going 100% Renewable Power Means a Lot of Dirty Mining
Looking at some of the non-CO2 costs of increasing renewable energy production and distribution.
Read more...Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy
Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
Read more...Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.
Read more...Greening Monetary Policy
Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.
Read more...Links 4/17/19
Festering Brexit
Even though the Good Friday/Easter weekend is coming up and Brexit matters are thus in low gear, the UK still seems stuck in its pattern of confusing motion with progress. A short list of updates: Labour-Tory talks still going nowhere. I’m not sure it would be progress even if the negotiations were going somewhere, since […]
Read more...‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
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