Category Archives: Politics

Rishi Sunak Could Become PM. Here’s What He Doesn’t Want You to Know

From offshore dealings to right-wing think tanks, a guide to Rishi Sunak, the man who could become the UK’s richest PM

Michael Hudson: From Junk Economics to a False View of History – Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn

Hudson reviews how economics has misrepresented the evolution of money and land ownership and promoted oligarchy.

The G7 Is Still Pushing Its Nutty Russia Oil Price Cap Idea

A new effort to punch Russia in the nose look as likely to backfire as earlier attempts, charitably assuming the scheme gets off the ground.

FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft

The US is really really out to heat things up with China…

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Behind Canada’s Blue Hydrogen Push

Fossil fuel producing Canada is promoting the blue hydrogen con.

The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?

It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.

Boris Johnson Death Watch

Boris Johnson agonistes.

Supremes Kayo Climate Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA

The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.

Shorting British, American and Baltic Intelligence – Going Long on Vladimir Putin

Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s possible to get books published about Putin based on accounts by spooks not in Russia when Putin was in office.

Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements

free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.

The Filibuster, the “Nuclear Option,” and a (New, Old) Thermonuclear Option

The filibuster: Senatorial arcana, the Senate as a deliberative body, and blowing it all up with a lawsuit based on a theory of “legislative entrenchement”