Category Archives: Guest Post

Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds Are Shifting

Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.

2:00PM Water Cooler Independence Day 2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread

Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness

Michael Hudson explains how the IMF and World Bank support US hegemony.

U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis

Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.

Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe

Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.

Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.

Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?

”Maximum Pressure” Campaign Fails To Kill Off Iran’s Oil Exports

Iran and the US look deadlocked.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/2/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: AOC at the border, and open thread.

One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?

The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.

Takers and Makers: Who Are the Real Value Creators?

Why stories from “value creators” should be taken with a fistful of salt.

Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington on How Shareholder Value Theory Rewards the Undeserving

How William Lazonick persuaded pols and pundits that the shareholder value theory was bad for business and society.

Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration

G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.

Links 7/1/19

Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages

Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.