The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
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The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
Read more...How Africa Keeps Losing Despite China v. West Race for Minerals
Africa supplies the minerals for the tech boom – but how it winds up losing out on the gains
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – America’s Coming Suez Moment
In 1956, Britain’s Suez campaign collapsed not because its forces were defeated, but because sterling could not withstand financial pressure. The episode revealed a structural truth: military capability is subordinate to monetary autonomy. Today the United States is not Britain under Bretton Woods, but it faces expanding global commitments alongside rising debt, elevated interest costs, and industrial constraints. This article examines how financial markets, rather than battlefields, may ultimately define the limits of American power. A single geopolitical shock is manageable. A sequence of them may not be. History may not repeat—but it can rhyme.
Read more...Republicans Scheming to Preserve Trump Tariffs Even After They Create Fewer Manufacturing Jobs
Trump and his GOP allies still heart tariffs despite failures, such as 2025 net manufacturing job growth ofless than half the year before.
Read more...Russia Just Denied Claims It Is Planning to Break the US’ Oil Blockade of Cuba, Albeit Only Partially
The US’ suspension of tariffs on countries that provide Cuba with oil (h/t SCOTUS) may, however, provide a window of opportunity to get oil to the island. But which country will take the risk?
Read more...Ruling for the Rich: Evidence of a Pro-Wealthy Bias on the US Supreme Court
Quelle surprise! The Supreme Court hearts the rich!
Read more...Coffee Break: Local Protests Against Data Centers, Surveillance Uniting Broad Political Spectrum
Local protests against data centers and Flock camera surveillance are coming from both sides of the political spectrum.
Read more...Bibi Put Israel’s Partners in an Awkward Position With His Description of the “Hexagon”
Another demonstration of Israel’s extreme sense of entitlement and intent to become a regional hegemon.
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Andrei Rublev (1966) Run Time: 3H 2M plus bonus documentary
Andrei Rublev is a film about art and life in medieval Russia.
Read more...Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump
Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse
Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.
Read more...Coffee Break: Landscape, Immigration, mRNA Vaccines, and a Safe Football Helmet
Part the First: What is Landscape? I have heard of John Stilgoe but have never gotten around to reading his work. That will change as soon as possible. His book What is Landscape? is described in the MIT Press newsletter in a series of questions, the first being: You place enormous weight on etymology and […]
Read more...AI Chatbots Attacks May End the Internet as We Know It
Recently, openDemocracy’s website was brought down by an army of bots, just like Naked Capitalism and other publishers.
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