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Bloomberg’s $108 Oil as Worst Case Iran War Scenario: Too Optimistic?
A detailed Bloomberg report lays out different scenarios for oil prices if Iran attacks. Is its forecast of a worst case of $108 a barrel too cheery?
Read more...Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Medea Benjamin provides a gripping on-the-ground report of how conditions in Cuba are deteriorating due to the US oil blockage.
Read more...The European Veal Pen: How the US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia & Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control of Europe
Can Europe free itself from its capture by the US, which looked like a dandy idea until the US became an openly predatory hegemon?
Read more...How Much Further Can U.S. Forces Go in Mexico?
A drug kingpin’s arrest in Mexico shows Trump using the war on drugs to justify intervention. Will he deliver on his military action threat?
Read more...The Epstein Files as a Weapon in the Conflict Over Currency and the “Central Domain”
What the Epstein scandal reveals about the conflict for digital sovereignty, currency and the shift between Carl Schmitt’s ‘central domains’
Read more...Modi Appears to Cave to Trump, Agrees to Buy Venezuela Oil in Place of Russia’s, End Tariffs on US Agriculture
What was Modi thinking? Even though Trump is surely exaggerating what his deal amounts to, it looks like a big climbdown for India.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Vijay Prashad: How Hyper-Imperialism Shapes Global Conflict
A rich discussion of how industrial capitalism evolved into imperialism and how its impulses and contradictions are creating more fractures.
Read more...ICE Not Only Looks and Acts Like a Paramilitary Force – It Is One, and That Makes It Harder to Curb
Why it is important to recognize that ICE is a paramilitary operation. Among other things, they are harder to reform than traditional police.
Read more...Defeat of the West – Michael Hudson and Lena Petrova on Davos Panic, Destruction of the EU & Economic Collapse
Michael Hudson and Lena Petrova discuss the breakdown of the US-led order, Trump’s misguided efforts to maintain primacy, and what comes next
Read more...Population Growth Slows to Crawl, Net Migration May Turn “Negative”: Census Bureau’s New Population Estimates
Population stagnation or even shrinkage has major implications for prospects for housing, employment, and consumer spending.
Read more...More Evidence of Destructive Deflation in China
China’s deflation crunch is getting worse.
Read more...Trump Does a Soft TACO as Republicans, NRA and Law Enforcement Officers Oppose ICE Thuggery. A Gambit or a Real Climbdown?
Trump for the moment is signaling a climbdown on his hyper-aggressive ICE tactics. But how long will this show of contrition last?
Read more...As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?
A permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly met and is getting more and more participation. Does it have any hope of being effective?
Read more...USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues
The Trump administration asks USDA scientists to research foreign co-authors for suspected collaboration or crimes.
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