Republican Mayors Push Climate Action Without Saying ‘Climate Change’
Some Republican officials are more active on the climate front than party rhetoric would have you believe.
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Did Italy’s 5 Star-Lega Coalition Blink in Its First Standoff With Eurocrats and Banksters?
Taking stock of the opening moves in the confrontation between Italy’s upstarts and the European establishment.
Read more...NYC Area Residents: Be Sure to Come to Our Meetup with Lambert This Saturday, June 2
Be sure to catch our New York meetup this Saturday, June 2.
Read more...Delta Is Nice to Your Humble Blogger (Plus Seeking Tech Help)
Delta cuts your humble blogger a break.
Read more...Brexit Becoming More Unpopular as Yet More Warts, Like VAT Administration, Come Into Focus
The latest Brexit updates aren’t very cheery.
Read more...How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided
Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...NIRP’s Revenge: Italian Bonds Plunge, Worst Day in Decades
Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...Israel and Palestine: A Story of Modern Colonialism
The foundations of Israel are rooted in a colonial project that has modernized its face but continues to subject Palestinians to military occupation, land dispossession and unequal rights.
Read more...The Left as the New Enemy Within: Domestic Wargaming Exercise Includes “Progressive” AntiGlobalist Baddies, Um, Terrorists
Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...Reminder: Tucson Meetup 2.0 This Friday, June 1
Be sure to stop by the Tucson meetup this Friday if you live in the area.
Read more...How Media Amnesia Has Trapped Us in a Neoliberal Groundhog Day
How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
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Italy’s Political Crisis….How Ugly Might It Get?
Identifying issues that may influence how Italy’s political crisis over the rejection of a Lega Nord-5 Star economy minister plays out.
Read more...There’s No Getting Around Iranian Sanctions
A discussion of the how Europe’s efforts to buck the US sanctions against Iran may play out.
Read more...Stock Market Borrowing at All Time High, Increasing Risk of Downdrafts
I find it hard to get excited about stock market risks unless defaults on the borrowings can damage the banking/payments system, as they did in the Great Crash. This is one reason the China perma-bears have a point: even though the Chinese government has managed to do enough in the way of rescues and warnings […]
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