Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: How the Global Crisis Will Unfold
Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: discuss how the Iran war economic crisis will generate inflation first, and then deflation and depression.
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Where Does Russia’s Just-in-Time Energy Lifeline Leave Cuba?
“We cannot be indifferent to the desperate situation that Cubans are experiencing today,” said Dmitry Peskov.
Read more...Five Reasons Why the US Declined To Enforce Its De Facto Blockade on Cuba for Russia
Cuba gets a bit of an energy break thanks to a Russian tanker, but this delivery won’t change outcomes.
Read more...Drillers See Triple-Digit Crude and Hit the Brakes
Why drillers won’t be sucker punched by increasing production in response to a very large price increase that may be short-lived.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Silence (Chinmoku) (1971) Run Time: 2H 9M Plus Jazz!
Silence is a movie about faith and its loss.
Read more...Book Review: How Genetics Shapes Our Ideas About Vice and Blame
IMHO, the book “Original Sin” makes a wildly unsound case for the genetic roots of sin, vice and guilt, and our attitudes toward punishment.
Read more...The Controversy Over Deep-Sea Mining, Explained
Deep-sea mining backers want metals for clean tech. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.
Read more...The Trump Administration’s Supposed “War” on Latin America’s Drug Cartels Has a New Name: “Operation Total Extermination”
While the War Department is currently focused on partner-led deterrence operations, it does not not rule out unilateral US strikes across Latin America.
Read more...Two Verdicts in Two Days: How American Courts Are Rewriting the Rules for Big Tech and Children
Will two verdicts against tech platform operators over the danger to children lead to a tidal wave of lawsuits? That jury is out.
Read more...Australia’s Fuels Dependence Turns Into a Crisis
Australia is on its way to becoming the first advanced economy major victim of the Iran war due to baffling policy choices.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Modern ‘Share the Scraps’ Economy
A clinical look at the extractive behavior that all that share, erm, sharing economy talk obscures.
Read more...How the US Became an International Serial Killer
An Iran-focused update on America’s shameful, destabilizing status as global killer in chief
Read more...Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
Less capital, more risk. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
Read more...Concentration Camps, US Style: Dehumanization for Fun and Profit
Rebecca Gordon describes US concentration camps, um, detention centers, as money-driven vehicles for authoritarianism and abuse.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Cheap Guidance and Big Consequences
The most important change in modern warfare is not the proliferation of drones or missiles, but the collapse in the cost of precision guidance. Weapons no longer need to be highly sophisticated to be accurate—they only need to be good enough, and “good enough” is now cheap.
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