Rob Urie: Imperialism, Lenin, and US Wars Abroad
Why Lenin was right.
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The Maidan Cookie Has Crumbled – Ukraine Study Finds Most Multinational Companies Still in Russia
A new study claims that a substantial majority of foreign businesses in Russia that were supposed to exit due to sanctions are still there.
Read more...Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire
This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party
Read more...Attrition War — How Israel Is Losing on the Economic Front
An update on the impact on the war on the Israel economy, and the efforts to mitigate it.
Read more...The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Freedom of Navigation: Houthi Attacks Only Part of How a Historical Anomaly Is Unwinding
Open seas, often touted as freedom of navigation, may be on its way out due to US negligence and technology change.
Read more...Further Discussion of Boeing’s Slow Motion Liquidation: Rational Given Probable Airline Industry Shrinkage?
More on Boeing as a symbol of industrial decline, here due to broader environmental and coming energy cost pressures.
Read more...Why Does Russia Produce More Ammunition Than the US?
Russian industrial performance serves as a point of departure for Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson to discuss the shortcomings of capitalism.
Read more...Russian Foreign Ministry Ties Red Sea Blockade to Gaza Blockade, Backs Houthis in Moscow Meeting
In the Gaza conflict, Russia has shifted from being uncommitted to supporting the Houthis and Iran. How much will this change the US posture?
Read more...Fossil Fuel Speculators—Not Consumers—Would Win Big From LNG Exports: Report
Expansion of U.S’ LNG export capacity simply enables Big Oil giants and commodity traders’ ability to earn eye-popping profits.
Read more...Our Coming Insecure Energy Future: The Network Conundrum
A key issue for the vaunted energy transition seems not to have gotten the attention it warrants. Reader input appreciated!
Read more...Michael Hudson on Russia, Iran and the Red Sea: NATO’s War Economy Collapses
Michael Hudson describes how the US, embarrassingly bested by Russia and now the Houthis, is doubling down on ally-damaging economic retaliation.
Read more...Rob Urie: The End of the World as We Know It
How world leaders and big money interests are resorting to increasingly desperate and destructive strategies to maintain their grip on power.
Read more...China Is the World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower
Not surprisingly, China tallies as number one in manufacturing…..and that is before European deindustrialization has really gotten going.
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