Michael Hudson: Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture
How Trump’s policies are destroying key elements of U.S. economic prosperity, with agriculture as a canary in the coal mine.
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US Expands Scope of Its (Fake) War on Drug Cartels to Colombia; Colombia Responds By Threatening to Stop Buying US Weapons
Is this the beginning of another US-sponsored coup?
Read more...AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health
Chatbots are designed to be addictive and have produced psychotic behavior. But suppliers have yet to implement protective features.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Who Writes the New Rules as Power Shifts Away from the US?
Michael Hudson discusses many of the responses to the US loss of economic dominance, from Europe’s self-immolation to China’s lending.
Read more...Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US
Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labor. It’s time to finish abolition
Read more...Coffee Break: Competence, Corruption and Control Limit Administrative Ambition
Does the corrupt Trump administration have the competence and control to impose its will?
Read more...How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK
The Government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern
Read more...Thomas Neuburger: We’ve Just Crowned a King. What Next?
Thanks to John Roberts and friends, the idea that the President have been elevated to king-level authority is not an exaggeration.
Read more...It Finally Happens: Spain Rebels Against Israel and Its Genocide in Gaza
The BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) movement appears to be going from strength to strength. As with South Africa, it is largely a bottom-up process.
Read more...U.S. Automakers Navigate Rising Metal Costs and Supply Woes
Beleagured US automakers, who remain important employers, face new tsuris in tariff costs and scarcity of key minerals.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Uncle Vanya (1970) Run Time: 1H 42M
Uncle Vanya is a movie about the boredom and desperation of a 19th. century Russian family.
Read more...How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
How student loans became a vehicle for higher educational profiteering and exploitation of students.
Read more...Satyajit Das: On Reading – Textual Pleasures
On the role of reading, particulalry for book lovers.
Read more...Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to AI Chatbots?
Research, much of it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.
Read more...As US’ Case Against Venezuela Unravels, Trump Administration Escalates Its War Footing Anyway
The escalation, as we’ve argued, has nothing to do with the drugs trade and everything to do with Venezuela’s huge deposits of oil, gas, gold and other minerals.
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