America Shoots Its Own Dollar Empire in Economic Attack on Russia
The US is gambling with its superpower status by putting its dollar hegemony in play to hurt the Russian economy.
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AG Merrick Garland Outlines Corporate Crime Prosecution Priorities
AG Merrick Garland outlined corporate crime enforcement priorities in a speech last week before an ABA group.
Read more...Calls Mount to Cancel Student Debt as Biden Weighs Longer Payment Pause
Despite polling showing student loan cancellation to be popular, even among those who don’t hold such debt themselves, Biden is unlikely to cancel all student debt outright.
Read more...Russia’s Economic War Front, The New Tributary System & The Russian Kowtow
A look at economic sanction options for Russia.
Read more...Why Don’t We Treat All Refugees as Though They Were Ukrainian?
Who’d have thunk it? Advanced economies are mighty bigoted about which refugees go to the head of the line.
Read more...Biden Pledges Better Nursing Home Care, but He Likely Won’t Fast-Track It
A Biden plan to improve nursing home care looks like too little, too late.
Read more...Rationales and Social Cover
A discussion of a common social strategy for dissenting with orthodox opinion.
Read more...Ukraine War Highlights Tensions in Putin’s Objectives. Will He Win the War and Lose the Peace?
The war in Ukraine is entering its most difficult phase for Russia, due to being forced to resolve somewhat conflicting objectives.
Read more...Pfizer February 2021 “Post Marketing” Vaccine Side Effects Tally Raises Alarms
A troubling Pfizer document has managed to go under the radar.
Read more...Inflation Targeting Voodoo
Why central bank fixation with inflation targeting is dodgy to detrimental.
Read more...‘Major Step Forward’: AIG to Stop Insuring Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Drilling
The campaign to get AIG to stop guaranteeing many fossil fuel development projecs has opened a new front in climate activism.
Read more...Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Highlights America’s Fading Geopolitical Influence
Why Russia is not as isolated as the US press would have you believe. The US has wrongfooted some recent dealing with influential countries.
Read more...2022 State of the Union Address Live Blog/Open Thread
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Read more...Fog of Financial Sanctions: Visa and Mastercard Shutdown in Russia Whacks Consumers
Russia is scrambling to deal with being shut off Visa and Mastercard.
Read more...New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts
IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.
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