Is Neoliberalism Really Dead? Or Does It Live on Like a Zombie?
Neoliberalism is still doing a fine job of zombifying economies, but the doctrine sadly is in rude health.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump
The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
Read more...Keep Capitalism Out of Conservation
Trying to use capitalsm to justify environmental protection: not a happy mix.
Read more...Self-Driving Cars Hit the Wall
Self-driving cars have suddenly gone from being depicted as inevitable to likely never happening at scale. Why?
Read more...Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28
Big Ag fights back at COP28
Read more...Google Loses on Every Count in Play Store Antitrust Suit by Epic Games
Google has suffered a major blow to its Play apps store model if this new ruling survives appeal. A Federal jury returned what the Washington Post deemed to be a verdict against Google on all counts, after mere hours of deliberation. A link to the verdict form 1. Readers may recall, at a 50,000 foot […]
Read more...Is China’s Economy Collapsing? Economic War! Michael Hudson & Richard D. Wolff
A wide-ranging talk, using Western bashing of China’s economy as a point of departure.
Read more...Could Two Working-Class Candidates Return Nebraska and West Virginia to Their Roots?
Themes once familiar to Nebraska and West Virginia voters in the heyday of progressive populism are making a comeback.
Read more...Iran President Raisi Asks President Putin To Support Gaza Action – Putin Is Evasive for the Moment
Putin ducked a request by Iran for support with respect to Gaza….but what might Raisi actaully want?
Read more...Tips Tricks Dampen Delivery Worker Celebration of New $18-an-Hour Wage
Delivery platforms DoorDash and UberEats immediately retaliated against a NYC-madated wage increase by redoing their apps to undermine tips.
Read more...The Debate Over Restricting Immigration
The Republicans look serious about restricting immigration or at least rolling back recent Biden moves. But are there any sound approaches?
Read more...Plastic Is Here to Stay. Can It Be Made More Sustainably?
Redesigning plastic requires making trade-offs between cost, scalability, emissions, toxicity, and more. But how about using less?
Read more...‘A Sick Joke’: Six Ways of Looking at a COP
Making sense of this COP means looking at optics and interests, and sadly not outcomes.
Read more...Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales
How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
Read more...Why True Democratic Systems Are Incompatible with Class-Based Orders…..Like Capitalism
Continuing the debate on whether democracy is viable in a capitalist regime.
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