US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad’s Murder of Banana Workers
A rare bit of justice, and perhaps also US consciousness raising, over corporate backed murder abroad.
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Black Sea Port Becomes Geopolitical Battleground Between China and the EU
Western handwringing over China building a port a little too close to Europe’s backyard.
Read more...Research on Earth’s Raging Heat of 2023-24 Is Picking Up
La Niña will most likely quell a stretch of global record heat, but human-produced greenhouse gases loom as large as ever.
Read more...Georgia Appeals Court Halts Trump Election Interference Case
There is much rending of hair over Trump winning delay in his election interference case that will push any trial past the election.
Read more...Scott Ritter Removed from Plane to Russia and Had Passport Seized with No Explanation
Scott Ritter was set to travel to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a major event, and make a presentation there. I am not clear on the details, but he also mentioned regularly on his various interviews that he was planning to visit many Russian cities and meet with Russians to promote better understanding between […]
Read more...Repress U., Class of 2024: How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven More Steps
The apparatus behind the explosion of police crackdowns against campus anti-Gaza-genocide protests has been very long in the making.
Read more...Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound
A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves
Read more...Gresham’s Law Comes for Science
Science publication has become so corrupted that entire journals have been shut down over running fake research. How did we get here?
Read more...“Am I An Extremist? ”
How the UK is using the extremist label to act against people holding mainstream views. The US is not far behind.
Read more...Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet
Governments and private entities are eroding privacy on the internet. Is it possible to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace?
Read more...New Palestine Protest/Free Speech Threat: House Oversight Committee Targets 20 Pro-Palestinian Organizations, Such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Demanding Treasury Produce Suspicious Activity Reports, Including on Employeees
A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Remembering A Day the West Wants to Forget
Russia celebrates its victory over Nazism on May 9 while in the West decades of historical revisionism blaming the USSR for WWII has helped rehabilitate Nazis and lead us to the New Cold War crisis today.
Read more...Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
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