Brexit Becomes More Unhinged as Tory Cage Match Intensifies While May Tries (Again) to Blame EU
The latest Brexit snow job reflects the fact that the Tories are a dead party walking.
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Andrew Bacevich: America’s Permanent Wars as Mere Background Noise
How the US media barely deigns to take notice of our neverending wars.
Read more...EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Trump Says Puerto Rico Debt Needs to be Wiped Out
Trump speaks an inconvenient truth about Puerto Rico. How long before his minders walk it back?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Read more...Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
How Puerto Rico has gone from an economic disaster area to a humanitarian crisis in the making.
Read more...Wall Street and City of London Getting Nervous About Catalonia
Yves here. Neither side appears willing to back down in the battle of wills over the Catalonia independence vote set for this Sunday, October 1. The English language press has described how the Spanish government has declared the election to be illegal and Mariano Rajoy’s government has moved to try to shut it down, for […]
Read more...Jared Bernstein Shows the Costs of Not Understanding Sovereign Currencies
Jared Bernstein, like his fellow fauxgressives, endorses deficit hysteria instead of policies based on how our money system works.
Read more...The Climate Change Land Rush: When Will People Start Leaving Coastal Cities?
Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?
Read more...Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
Read more...Out of Africa: Why the Migration Wave?
Why are so many risking their lives to flee Africa?
Read more...Climate Change Enabling US Military to Play Greatly Enlarged Domestic Role
Why climate change is great for the Pentagon’s budget and bad for Americans’ freedom.
Read more...Brexit Talks Stall, Making Hard Brexit Even More Likely
The Brexit talks went from bad to worse in August.
Read more...Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
Puerto Rico illustrates why implementing austerity policies in weak economies backfires.
Read more...Disasters and Price Gouging
The rational case against profiteering during disasters.
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