Michael Hudson: Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be
R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson on debt, rentierism, and the geopolitical rift around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system
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Coffee Break: American Science in Distress, Technology vs. Community, and the Restaurant Problem Solved
Part the First: The Sabotage of American Science. For much of the past forty years I have been in the “business” of writing grant proposals and/or doing research that has been publicly funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. This includes work supported by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and […]
Read more...‘This Is Oligarchy’: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins’ Reelection Bid
My goodness, why are so many billionaires, the overwhelming majority of whom do not vote in Maine, so eager to see Graham Platner lose?
Read more...Just How Much Damage Can Trump’s Reverse Midas Touch Do to the Biggest Sports Show on Earth?
FIFA hopes that this year’s expanded tournament will be the most spectacular — and lucrative — yet. However, there’s a lot standing in the way of that happening.
Read more...New Consumer Report Finds “Concerning Levels of Additives” in Popular Snacks
Quelle surprise! Junk food often contains a lot of less-than-healthy additives.
Read more...Wealth Is Not the Biggest Problem We Face: Inequality of Power Is
Is there any way back from the extreme concentration of power in societies across the world?
Read more...Putin Powerfully Rebuffed the Hawks Who Want Him to Attack NATO
Putin cleared his throat to smack down the idea that Russia should seek to mix things up with NATO.
Read more...Lawsuit Puts Spotlight on Amazon’s Free Speech Violations, Use of Contractors to Facilitate Abuses Like Wage Theft
Amazon is engaged in a tooth and nail fight to beat a New York City bill to end its use of contractors to escape liability for labor abuses.
Read more...Increasing Employment in Pre-Retirement Years Slows Cognitive Decline
Older men show less cognitive decline if they keep working. Does this finding apply only to paid jobs or would charity roles be salutary too?
Read more...What Happens When the World’s Breadbaskets Start Failing Simultaneously?
A look at the global food system focusing on the role of breadbaskets. Many disconcerting parallels to global financial crisis risks.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Israel’s Buffer Defense Quandary
Israel’s pursuit of security buffer zones reflects a rational response to decades of military threats, terrorism, and geographic vulnerability. Yet tactical success does not necessarily produce strategic success. As hostile forces regenerate beyond new frontiers, long-range weapons diminish the value of territorial depth, and regional powers react to expanding security perimeters, buffer defense may become increasingly costly and less effective.
Read more...Under Right to Record Act, People Could Sue Federal Agents for First Amendment Violations
Proof of eroding rights: new legislation is necessary to shore up the First Amendment right to record, typically of officials behaving badly.
Read more...A Cuban Collapse Could Create a Highly Dangerous Security Vacuum on the US’ Doorstep, Warns The National Interest
“The US should be careful what it wishes for in Cuba.”
Read more...MAHA’s Meat-Loving Industrial Farming Hypocrisy
MAHA touts are in denial that their support for meat-eating is tantamount to support for factory farming.
Read more...5 Ways Data Centers Endanger Their Local Communities and the Country as a Whole
Yet more on why you should hate data centers.
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