The Wars We Are Discouraged From Seeing
How the media anesthetizes the American pulblic to our role in wars and their costs.
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No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2023
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Read more...How Declining Population Growth Might Portend a Future of Increasing Resource Scarcity
Slowing and stallling population growth could actually increase resource demands.
Read more...Investors Up in Arms After Mexico’s Government Clips Wings of Latin America’s Second Richest Man, Germán Larrea
The dirty “e” word — expropriation — is doing the rounds once again in Mexico, this time in relation to a highly strategic stretch of railroad in the country’s south east.
Read more...Here’s Why Oil Flows Can Only Be Redirected, Not Stopped
At least over the time frame of the sanctions against Russia, oil demand had looked inelastic.
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Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Read more...The Move Toward a Four-Day Workweek Obscures Low Pay
Yves here. Like author Sonali Kolhatkar, your humble blogger has been skeptical of a four day, or better yet, 32 hour workweek without an increase in worker compensation. By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/26/2023
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Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Read more...Links 5/26/2023
Why Are US Military Personnel Heading to Peru?
The ostensible goal of the operation is to provide “support and assistance to the Special Operations of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru,” including in regions recently engulfed in violence.
Read more...More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation
In fits and starts, the idea of free public transportation is getting more of a following in the US.
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