Category Archives: Guest Post

The Twenty-First Century Executive Branch Is a Criminogenic Environment

Alexander Hamilton’s “energy in the Executive” has a downside.

Links 6/2/2024

Data Centers Set to Consume 9% of U.S. Electricity by 2030

Electricity demand is set to increase markedly thanks to uses like AI and cryptocurrencies.

Links 5/31/2024

From Debunking to “Pre-bunking”: EU Opens Up Another New Front in Its War on Information

“Perhaps if you think of information as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold — that is, debunking — it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.” Welcome to prebunking.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics, Trump convicted on all 34 counts, yellow waders for Merchan’s jury instructions, H5N1 breakout scenario, “Decolonize the gut!”, “They were careless people….” ~

Global South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations’ Elite-Serving Policies

The World Bank projects the worst slowdown in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to Western powers’ contractionary policies

Links 5/30/2024

Michael Hudson: Modern (Mis)interpretations of Ancient Debt Cancellation

Modern economists misrepresent how ancient debt cancellation worked, forcing it into contemporary neoliberal /creditor rights frameworks

Status of Banks’ Unrealized Losses in Q1: Worsened After Brief Rate-Cut-Mania Relief

US banks are still sitting on losses, with Fed relief nowhere in sight.

The West Foments Chaos in the Caucasus

Armenia’s pivot to the West unravels. Regime change efforts in Georgia. Türkiye looks to criminalize working for “foreign interests.”

The Popski Syndrome – Allied Defeat Turns into Ukraine Battlefield Fantasies

Ukraine, with certain Western help, has engaged in even more provocative stunts as some NATO leaders threaten escalation.