Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies” chronicles Wikileaks’ publications and the dehumanization of Julian Assange.
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Rail Workers Warn Safety Bill Loopholes Are Big Enough to ‘Run a Freight Train Through’
Post East Palentine rail safety reform proposals are embarrassingly unserious.
Read more...Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan
The US doth protest too much over China’s napkin doodle peace principles. Why the defensiveness?
Read more...At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan
In pressing the Taiwan hot button, is the US misreading China’s capabilities and networks just as it has Russia’s?
Read more...The Fiscal Side of Europe’s Energy Crisis: The Facts, Problems and Prospects
A deep dive into the costs and impact of the recent, large-scale European energy subsidies.
Read more...Ukraine, Russia, China, and Dealing With Crazy People
What passes for leadership in the West is becoming more agitated, particulalry over Ukraine.
Read more...Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Read more...Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
Read more...How Private Equity Bribes Public Pension Fund Officials: Subsidized/Fund-Paid Lavish Travel and Entertainment
Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
Read more...All Presidents Avoid Reporters, but Biden May Achieve a Record in His Press Avoidance
An effort to rationalize Presidential and by extension other politicians’ minimizing interaction with the press.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on Dollar Imperialism
A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
Read more...5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.
Read more...One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women
Abortion foes have opened another potentially big front with an attack on the FDA approval status of an “abortion pill” medication.
Read more...Jared Holst: The Criminal Value Chain
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...In Rural America, Right-to-Repair Laws Are the Leading Edge of a Pushback Against Growing Corporate Power
After years of efforts to advance right-to-repair rules, farmers are starting to get traction.
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