Hurricane Helene Hits Hard in North Carolina, a Swing State
A few thousand votes lost in Trump Country could swing the election.
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The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot
The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
Read more...Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: West’s Colossal Failure: Peace Summit in Switzerland, US Decline, Rise of BRICS
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, in fine form, discuss the remarkable US success in driving its strategic rivals into alliances.
Read more...UPDATED: Hezbollah Confirms Nasrallah Is Dead; Netanyahu Condemned Over Massive Beirut Bombing
While Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah survived an attack in Beirut, Israel may still get the regional war it wants.
Read more...TaxCast on Green Laundering, Combatting Big Corporate Tax Dodging with Joseph Stiglitz, EU Competition Minister Margrethe Vesterger
A look at corporate misbehavior, here extreme tax avoidance and green laundering, and the progress of efforts to combat it.
Read more...Is It Climate Change or Genocide?
The case that the elite lack of willingness to address climate change amounts to genocide.
Read more...Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry
“Crypto is a haven for businesspeople with nefarious or criminal intent.”
Read more...Desperate-Looking Biden Administration Attempt to Get 21-Day Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire
Yet another Biden-Blinken ceasefire fantasy makes headlines.
Read more...CBO: GOP Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits by Thousands, Not Extend Solvency
The CBO releases an analysis of a Project 2025-adjacent plan to reduce Social Security benefits. The “reforms” don’t improve fund solvency!
Read more...Indian Foreign Minister Throws Cold Water on the Idea of a BRICS Currency
The Indian foreign minister make fatal (at least for now) objections to the idea of a BRICS currency.
Read more...What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Debunking Big Pharma whinging over Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations.
Read more...Fog of (Dis)Information in Escalating Israel-Lebanon Conflict
Some updates on the escalating Israel-Lebanon conflict and on the poor state of reporting.
Read more...The Fed’s Reactive-Looking Half-Point Rate Cut
The Fed’s half point rate reduction was unseemly large. What gives?
Read more...Atlanticism or Sovereignty? Fight in Germany Continues With Latest State Election
Germany’s loyal servants to Washington are being backed into a corner.
Read more...Cheapflation and the Rise of Inflation Inequality in 2021-2023
Big companies victimized poor consumers via cheapflation: imposing greater price increases on low price goods than higher priced items
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