The Medici’s Quiet Coup: How the Wealthy Bend Politics without Shifting Institutions
This column studies the circumstances under which a relatively open political system can be corrupted by its confrontation with concentrated wealth.
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Trump Dons Apron, Works Drive-thru, Fry Station at Bucks County, PA McDonald’s, Warming Hearts and Exploding Heads
Hot takes on Trump’s campaign “stunt” at McDonald’sa
Read more...Germany Can’t Stop Digging
As Berlin tags along with Washington into the war crimes abyss, it blames Russia for turning Germans against the government.
Read more...Firm Behind £4M Labour Party Donation Invested in Weapons for Israel
Quadrature Capital, which gave the Labour Party’s largest-ever donation, held shares in arms companies that make Israeli fighter jets and bombs.
Read more...“Powder Keg in the Pacific, How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific”
A reader critical thinking exercise in the form of a neocon justification of US efforts to contain China.
Read more...“Is The West Prepared to Deal With Potential Iranian Sabotage of the Oil Market?”
A discussion of some of the ways Iran could use economic, as in oil, leverage to retaliate against an Israel strike.
Read more...Brief History of Bipartisan Ballot Bamboozlement: 2000–2020
“Our democracy” has quite a history of problems….
Read more...Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Israel’s End-Game Under Netanyahu
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson discuss Israel as a colonial project in an era where demonizing the natives is no longer a winning propaganda strategy.
Read more...Mapping the Solidarity Economy
A worker-owned collective helps Chicagoans find mutual aid-based organizations, in the face of a weakening economy and social safety nets.
Read more...“So You Don’t Like Trump or Harris – Here’s Why It’s Still Best to Vote for One of Them”
An academic contends that protest and third party votes are counterproductive.
Read more...Satyajit Das: US Presidential Politics – The More They Bicker, the More They Stay the Same
US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol
Read more...11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live By
Seeking reader reactions to recommendations on how to engage in “media activism”.
Read more...Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans [Update]
Netanyahu, drunk on his power and his love of destruction, keeps upping the ante.
Read more...The Sanctions Poison Pill in Putin’s Peace Offer
A discussion of Putin including a not-much-discussed deal term that the West will never accept: sanctions relief.
Read more...Rob Urie: Failed US Economic Policies Lie Behind Current Geopolitical Tensions
How US fealty to neoliberalism undermined its economy. And why China’s choices are not likely to produce happy outcomes.
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