Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
Read more...Category Archives: Banana republic
Andrew Bacevich: America’s Very Long War
Ruminations on our seemingly neverending war, starting with Vietnam….but is that the right frame?
Read more...Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017
A coalition of climate groups calls on the Biden administration to use existing statutory authority as a basis for executive action to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
Read more...Macron Suggests EU-Russia Talks. Meltdown Among EU, US Apparatchiks Follows.
Macron stands up for the idea that the EU should have a say about being dragged into a conflict with Russia. Can’t have that!
Read more...The World’s Food Systems Are in Crisis, and Big Agribusiness Is at Its Heart
Public finance plays a large role in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local food producers
Read more...Russell 2000 Drops Below Year Ago Level. Collapse of IPOs, SPACs, Housing “Tech” Stocks, ARKK, etc. Progresses
The most-hyped stocks are collapsing, some by 90%, such as EV SPACs, as the sordid underbelly of the stock market comes unglued.
Read more...The Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate: In Defense of National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor
A refreshingly balanced take on why the Supreme Court was correct in shooting down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...Eurasia’s Ring of Fire
A theory of empire, based on aspirations for control of Eurasia.
Read more...An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
Read more...With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’
A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.
Read more...U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses, Upholds for Most Health Workers
The Supreme Court fillets Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, leaving it to employers and states to act, unless Congress opts to step in and craft a nationwide policy.
Read more...Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
Read more...More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.
Read more...Biden Under Fire for Resisting Calls to Distribute N95 Masks to All
The Biden administration dithers, while meanwhile Bernie reintroduces legislation that sends N95 masks to every U.S. household.
Read more...