Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
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Michael Hudson on Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature
Michael Hudson rings the changes on a favorite theme: the differences between the financial capitalism and industrial capitalism systems
Read more...Novichok Investigation Collapses in London Court — Adam Chapman, Lawyer Appointed to Represent Sergei & Yulia Skripal, Doesn’t
A bizarre scene of court chaos as a lawyer supposedly representing key witnesses, the Skripals, in an infamous poising case, plays very dumb.
Read more...International Labor Organization Reports on Gig Worker Protest
Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.
Read more...Russia’s Campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an Inflection Point?
A high level update on Russia v. Ukraine, since the mainstream media has taken to averting its eyes.
Read more...The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the plans to create assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons.
Read more...Groundhog Day For America’s Energy Grid
More energy woes coming to some parts of the US due to the failure to address known infrastructure problems.
Read more...Dollar Diplomacy: Michael Hudson and Steve Keen on Real Progressives
A wide-ranging and free-wheeling discussion of money, oligarchy, trade, China, the future of the dollar….with an eye to MMT.
Read more...What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...Pursuing Its National Interest in the New Multipolar World: India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output
Sakhalin-1 opportunity: Indian firms to step in and replace departing U.S. and Japanese companies.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
How neolibearlism and idealization of markets is the latest chapter in the West’s destructive drift towards rule by oligarchs and rentiers.
Read more...‘Good. Now Declare It,’ Says Pressley as Biden Mulls Health Emergency for Abortion Rights
Would declaring a public health emergency work as a Biden Administration abortion Hail Mary pass?
Read more...There is No Nobel Prize in Economics
Yves here. From time to time, readers chide us for lacking the patience to spell out the proper name of economics profession’s imitation Nobel Prize. J.R. Swenson is particularly annoyed by this practice and is highlighting some of the (sadly still few) instances within the discipline of pushing back against the brand appropriation. To highlight […]
Read more...Financial Crises as Drivers of Populism: A New Channel
Financial crises hurt the middle class, reducing their support for the status quo in favor of insurgent, aka populist, candidates.
Read more...Shinzo Abe and the Legacy of Japanese Militarism
Shinzo Abe’s death is a reminder of how the US helped paper over WWII era crimes of the Japanese Empire.
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