Brexit: Chaos Continues as Parliament Votes Down All Brexit Options, Press Focuses on May Rather than April
The Brexit noise to signal ratio continues to be very high.
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Could Middle East Policy Be Sanders’ Biggest Strength Against Trump for 2020?
Sanders is calling for major changes in US policy in the Middle East, and oddly isn’t getting much credit for that.
Read more...A Must Read: Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?
A respone to the backlash against MMT.
Read more...To Brexit or Not to Brexit
Yet more Brexit to-ing and fro-ing.
Read more...Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
America’s messy relationship with the International Criminal Court is in a particularly rocky phase. Of course, being exceptional means never having to admit citizens may have committed war crimes.
Read more...Trump Administration And Democrats Return Health Law To Political Center Stage
Trump is now seeking to gut the ACA in its entirety. How might the battle over health care play out?
Read more...Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain
In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.
Read more...Matt Taibbi: It’s Official – Russiagate is This Generation’s WMD
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
Read more...Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash
This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.
Read more...Waiting for Brexit
A look at the EU’s Brexit extension deal.
Read more...Brexit: Opening the Seals
Brexit gets even more crazed, if such a thing were possible.
Read more...The #MMT Case for Progressive Taxes
MMT advocate typically shy away from calling for progressive taxes. A case as to why that’s a lost opportunity.
Read more...U.S. ‘’Oil Weapon’’ Could Change Geopolitics Forever
Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...China’s Belt and Road Initiative vs Washington Consensus
An update by Jomo Kwame Sundaram on how China and the US are faring in their use of trade and development policy to foster growth and project power.
Read more...Brexit: End of the Road
The UK has run out of time for Brexit machinations, even if that isn’t well recognized yet.
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