The Age of Lunacy: The Doomsday Machine
The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Six Things Urban Feminists (Make That Anyone) Should Never Say to Rural People
How urban people routinely sneer at their country cousins.
Read more...The Payback: Why Aren’t Black Voters Rewarded by the Party That Depends on Them to Win Elections?
The Democrats don’t do much for black voters, and it’s getting a bit too obvious.
Read more...Why Is the American Left So Prejudiced About the South?
Yves here. Having spent time in the South, in general, Northerners carry huge class prejudice against Southerns. The same way a British accent is worth 20 attributed IQ points, a Southern accent is an attributed reduction of about 10 points. The Southerns I know who are not treated that way are people who managed to […]
Read more...Will Upcoming Brexit Negotiation Round Finally Cause Hard Core Brexiter Heads To Explode?
Brexit screeching gets ever louder as it becomes harder to keep reality at bay.
Read more...What Bernie’s Historic 2016 Teaches for 2020
Sanders’ near-win in the Democratic primary with no corporate support was a first, proving that small money plus a serious message can succeed
Read more...Buffett, Bezos, and Dimon Launch “An Undertaking of Great Advantage” to “Innovate” in Health Care
Decoding the press release on the new health care venture from Berkshire Hathway, Amazon, and JP Morgan.
Read more...Banks Wince as Wells Fargo Gets a Harder Than Usual Wet Noodle Lashing from the Fed
The Fed implements some new punishments at Wells Fargo, but this is weak tea when what is needed is rat poison.
Read more...The EU as Britain’s Constitutional Stabiliser?
More than it thinks, Britain may need EU membership to preserve its national integrity and ancient constitutional settlement.
Read more...Seed Catalogs of Desire
The history of seed catalogs
Read more...Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Do Mainstream Democrats Really Want to Eliminate Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Use?
Following the money tells you how serious mainstream Democrats are about tackling climate change….not.
Read more...How Did Trump Win? Follow the Dark Money
A major new study says an infusion of “dark money,” plus declining unionization rates, were factors that helped deliver the Trump upset.
Read more...UK Consternation Over EU Not Accommodating City of London in Brexit…Just As It Said It Would Not Do
The UK financial services is being told “no” yet again….will the message finally sink in?
Read more...The International Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump
The Trump Administration sees no value in international economic institutions or cooperation, abandoning the role of steward of the system.
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