Category Archives: Guest Post

Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System

Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.

The NYT & WSJ’s Critical Articles About Kiev’s Counteroffensive Explain Why It Failed

It’s now in the open that US and Ukraine were at odds about the much vaunted counteroffensive, even when it was clear it would not get far

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/25/2023

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Despite 4 Indictments, Trump Will Still Be the GOP Nominee

Trump won’t be over until he is over, and that will not be before the Republican convention.

Could New BRICS Member Argentina Become First Country to Receive a Full-Scale BRICS Bailout?

The country is once again in deep crisis mode, with decades high inflation, a crumbling currency and no foreign currency reserves. It is shackled to the IMF but now faces the possibility of being able to tap alternative sources of finance.

Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal

Some of the major entries in Kissinger’s rap sheet.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/24/2023

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BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges

BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?

Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage

How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.

Jonesing on Carbon

A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.

China And U.S. Lock Horns Over New 122.5% Steel Tariff

Yet another US/China trade row, this one over steel.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2023

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The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility

Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction

Links 8/23/2023

Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change

A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.