Category Archives: Guest Post
Trump and Political Realignment: Twirling Toward Freedom?
Is Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican party part of a political realignment, or just jousting among plutocrats?
Read more...What Would a Net-Zero 2050 Actually Look Like?
Some Net Zero hopium. Reader evaluations encouraged.
Read more...Democracy Dies in the EU: Romania Edition
Is the cancelling of the Romanian election a harbinger of what’s to come in Western “democracies”?
Read more...For Science That Comes With Risks, a Key Question: Who Decides?
From pathogen research to geoengineering and AI, consequential science is accelerating. Whose hands are on the wheel?
Read more...With Help From NAFTA 2.0, US Strikes Brutal Blow Against Mexican Food Sovereignty, Health and Global Biodiversity
“Both the USMCA and this ruling issued by the trade dispute panel are designed primarily to protect the interests of transnational corporations.”
Read more...Israelis Invade Syria: Who Will Stop Israel?
Israel is in the midst of a land grab in Syria. Ex Ansar Allah, the disapproving world majority merely finger-wags.
Read more...CDC’s Research Program on Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) Minimizes Airborne Transmission
In CDC’s approach to Hospital Acquired Infections, strategies to prevent the spread of pathogens through the air are ignored or downplayed.
Read more...Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious − That Could Already Be Hurting Animals That Are Grazers
More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.
Read more...The US Embrace of Incarceration for the Homeless Is a Win-Win for the Plutocrats
Ignoring the true causes of the homeless crisis while expanding the carceral state helps discipline labor.
Read more...The Demand and Supply of Hate
A new study looks at amplification of hateful content on social media platforms and points to remedies. But is BlueSky really any better?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Foreward on Schurtz’s Origins of Money
Michael Hudson explains how Heinrich Schurtz’s 1897 Origins of Money debunked neoclassical fables about how money started and developed.
Read more...Post Cold War Geopolitics Worse for Global South
How the US mismanaged its unipolar moment to the detriment of the Global South.
Read more...The US Just Opened Its Biggest Embassy in… Mexico, Amid Souring Relations Between the Two Countries
Twenty years ago, the largest US embassy in the world was in occupied Iraq. Today, it is in Mexico. The first person to take charge of the embassy will be a former CIA agent and Green Beret.
Read more...Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts Expire Soon − Study Shows They Made Income Inequality Worse and Especially Hurt Black Americans
The first-term Trump tax cuts, increased inequality. So why does there seem to be so much complacency about their renewal?
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