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.
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5 Ways Data Centers Endanger Their Local Communities and the Country as a Whole
Yet more on why you should hate data centers.
Read more...Reclaiming the Pursuit of Happiness
A reminder on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary of the lack of freedom due to poverty and wealth inequality.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it
How pervasive behavioral disorders among what passes for elites are destructive not just to the social order but ultimately to them too.
Read more...Fox News Defines Most Americans as Anti-American
Fox News brands the majority of Americans as official enemies, echoing extra-legal ““domestic terrorism organizations” in Trump’s NSPM-7.
Read more...Building Fairer Cities: New Insights From Mohenjo-daro
New insight reveals that inequality was low in one of South Asia’s first cities and that it decreased as its citizens prospered.
Read more...When ICE Ramped Up Enforcement, US‑Born Workers Didn’t See Any Economic Gains
US natives did not see wage gains from ICE crackdowns. But the story looks more complicated than some suggest.
Read more...Electile Dysfunction—Why Can’t the Democrats Get Their Polls Up?
Quelle surprise! The Democrats will not attend to the material needs of its traditional popular base because it is thrall to its donor class.
Read more...Blair Invokes AI to Revive TINA, Denying TIARA
Swamp creature Tony Blair emerges to tell the suffering public that they should accept even more hardship because AI.
Read more...Who Do Members of the Military Serve?
A Memorial Day look at a military recruitment crisis in a country being feasted on by transnational capital.
Read more...Iran War: Quelle Surprise! Vanishingly Unlikely “Deal” Visibly Falling Apart as US Consumer Spending Crumbling
Today’s Iran war news: Talks fantasies get a harsh dose of reality as Iran rejects a US nuclear demand while consumers go green at the gills.
Read more...Establishment Democrats Still Don’t Get Why They Lost in 2024
Democrats can’t face that they don’t have a message because having one with broad appeal would alienate too many powerful factions.
Read more...Why Public Policy’s Core Value Should Be Equality
Humans have a strong, evolution-based desire for fairness and equality, yet they are more and more neglected in policy design.
Read more...Michael Hudson Warns: Imminent Economic Catastrophe – War, Oil Crisis & Bond Market Panic
Michael Hudson explains how the financier-friendly medicine of higher interest rates will only make the impending economic crisis worse.
Read more...‘Hands Off Our Pensions’: Belgian Workers Take to the Streets in General Strike Against Austerity Measures
The latest national strike in a series over a year and a half against policies that a union leader said will heighten inequality and poverty
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