Africa’s Minerals Are Being Bartered for Security: Why It’s a Bad Idea
A minerals-for-security deal among the DRC, Rwanda and the US is as bad as the Ukraine “raw earths” security commitments.
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The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages
As safety nets shred, some Christian churches provide key services to the poor while others use the desperation to build political power
Read more...Coffee Break: Garden of Healing, Good News on PEPFAR, Life in Biotech, and Our American Israel
Part the First: Pharmacopeia. Who doesn’t love a garden? It sometimes seems that all drugs come from plants, initially. My first biology teachers claimed they were taught that bacteria were plants back when life was either animal or plant. Garden of Healing is a bit long but very interesting. It is also a break from […]
Read more...Good Riddance: CalPERS’ Atrocious General Counsel Matt Jacobs to Retire
A partial catalogue of the horrowshow of Matt Jacob’s tenure as CalPERS general counsel.
Read more...Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence
A new twist on inflation: how workers and corporates trying to preserve their financial position has the effect of perpetuating inflation
Read more...Wars, Taxation, and Increases in Representation
A historical analysis shows that greater representation was a bargain autocratic, here feudal, rulers had to strike to get support for war
Read more...Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?
The meme-contour of recent articles seems designed to promote resignation towards nuclear war and other horrors of combat.
Read more...“The Corporate Takeover of Housing”
Debunking some widely held misperceptoins about why US housing is so pricey.
Read more...Project Nectar: Another Palantir Special
Meet Project Nectar, a new surveillance state initiative being tested for the UK and planned for rollout to police forces broadly.
Read more...Chinese Government Tries to Combat Destructive Deflation. Will It Succeed?
The economic hazard of deflation is already stalking China, to the degree that even Xi is trying to take it on.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Who Needs Marx in 2025?
To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx.
Read more...Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure
High energy costs in Europe, largely due to sanctions against Russia, has spread the gangrene of de-industrialization to the Netherlands
Read more...U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.
Real reform in American politics won’t come new parties — but from breaking investors’ grip and rebuilding power from the ground up.
Read more...Message to Trump: Incompetence Is Not Virtue. Also, People Will Die
The main and possibly only qualification for Trump’s top appointees is the ability to tell blatant lies with a straight face.
Read more...Coffee Break: Texas Floods, Biblical Divorce Complicate US Senate Primary
Texas floods, Biblical divorce complicate US Senate race for Ken Paxton as Democrats search for a candidate.
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