The Intercept’s Latest Leak Might Deal Irreparable Damage to Pakistani-Chinese Relations
The latest Intercept leaks confirm the notion that neither China nor Russia can trust Pakistan. That has awkward implications for China.
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CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Nicole Musicco Resigns Abruptly, Intensifying CalPERS’ Senior Staffing Instability
CalPERS lurches into a new crisis. The official story of the sudden resignation of CIO Nicole Musicco does not add up. What gives?
Read more...California Democrats Double Down on Efforts to Involuntarily Commit the Homeless
Sacramento wraps up its legislative session with efforts to disappear the homeless.
Read more...The War in Ukraine Helps Advance the Great EU Neoliberal Project
Movers and shakers cash in while workers are disciplined and the welfare state is cut.
Read more...The Resumption Of US Military Activity In Niger Puts France On The Strategic Backfoot
The Niger situation has developed not necessarily to France’s advantage.
Read more...How Public Pianos Decorated by Artists Came to Dot Portland’s Streets and Parks
Portland provides pianos as a public amenity.
Read more...‘This Is Our Defining Moment’: UAW Launches Historic Strikes Against Big Three Automakers
The once-feared UAW is flexing some muscle. Complaints about expenses are disingenuous v, the cost of stock manipulation, aka buybacks.
Read more...Davos Man Says ‘Total Transparency’ For You
The word transparency is being defined in an effort to further prevent citizens from demanding it of governments, NGOs, and major companies.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of Signaling and Performativity
On the role of signaling and performativity in our increasing elite dysfunction.
Read more...The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
Read more...Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition
Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Read more...On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century
“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”
Read more...At What Level Will Saudi Arabia And Russia Stop Pushing Oil Prices Higher?
Russia and Saudi Arabia seem finally to have gotten the oil price increases they wanted. How much higher might they go?
Read more...Has the West Closed All Its Project Ukraine Exits?
Have the US and NATO managed to box themselves in with the Ukraine war?
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