What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?
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Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
Why highly unequal societies like the US exhibit falling levels of population-level fitness along side falling support for better healthcare.
Read more...The Bondi Strike: Who Will Control the Narrative?
How key players are starting to throw down markers to shape perceptions of the Bondi mass shooting.
Read more...The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine
It’s hard to be cynical enough in looking at EU rationales and motives for strengthening their hold on Russia’s seized assets.
Read more...Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Read more...Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units
Time for some perspective on enhanced Obamacare subsidies costs and stakes.
Read more...Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
Despite introducing legislation across the country to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, lawmakers do not appear motivated to target monopolistic firms, or to bring more of the food supply chain under domestic control.
Read more...Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Data agreements are replacing armies as tools of colonialism and the return of external governance
Read more...What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.
Read more...Political Power and Profitable Trades in the US Congress
A new study finds that it’s not the Congress rank and file that generates insider trading big bucks, only some of the leaders.
Read more...Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear Over Frozen Assets; Will the EU Be Hoist on the Investor-State Settlement Disputes (ISDS) Petard?
Hoo boy. Russia looks to be using much demonized (by labor and environmental rights advocates) investor-state dispute settlement provisions to pursue Euroclear.
Read more...Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Trump’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty.
Read more...Israel Is Acting with Impunity. Is It Overconfident in Trump’s Support?
More Americans support Palestine than Israel for the first time ever. But does that matter to Trump?
Read more...Trump Administration Joins EU in Russian Frozen Asset Madness
I want whatever Team Trump is smoking. Their Russian frozen assets plan has achieved impressive new levels of delusion.
Read more...U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
Some updates on the US capture of an oil tanker that had just departed from Venezuela.
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