The National Insecurity State and the United States of Inequality
For tens of millions of Americans, the source of deep workaday insecurity isn’t the standard roster of foreign enemies, but an ever-more entrenched system of inequality.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 7/16/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade wars (and game theory), Sanders in Pittsburgh, AOC profile, Ritter on the Mueller indictments, Bourdain on Bill Clinton, retail sales, manufacturing, bitcoin, the press, testosterone
Read more...Good News? Percentage of Americans Who Believe Climate Change is Real Reaches New High
Public seems to be getting the memo about climate change– despite the forces arrayed to fog this issue and Trump’s abysmal policies. Has this shift come too little, too late– and will necessary policy changes follow?
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Has Mueller Caught the Hackers?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 12 officials with the GRU, Russia’s main foreign intelligence agency, for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election, including hacking Democratic Party emails. Case closed? Author and investigative journalist Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News joins TRNN’s Aaron Mate to discuss.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Argentina Gets Biggest IMF Loan in History
Leftout podcast of The Hudson Report, with Michael Hudson, discussing the award to Argentina of the biggest loan in the IMF’s history (includes transcript).
Read more...EU Elite on the (Far) Right Side of History
Why the design of the Eurozone has produced right wing policies.
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Reproducibility Crisis Reaches All Randomised Controlled Trials
Social and medical sciences depend on randomised controlled trials, even though they harbor more assumptions and biases than commonly understood.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade war, Novartis, Mueller indicts 12 Russians, import and export, consumer prices, Fed indicators, AirBnB, cybersecurity, origin of homo sapiens, neutrinos, urbanization
Read more...Two Senate Democrats Call for Investigation into Smart TVs
Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
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From Donald Trump to Theresa May: How a US-UK Network Pushes Climate Science Denial and Lobbies for a Hard Brexit — Mapped
As Trump barrels into the UK, this timely post traces interesting linkages between climate change denialists on both sides of the Atlantic– and extends to Brexiteers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Which Would Be Harder to Ban, Single-Use Plastic or Money-Bought Government?
Texas Supreme Court strikes down city of Laredo’s plastic bag ban. Real problem is dominance of money-driven politics– which is a far more difficult problem to solve than curtailing the use of plastic.
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