Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
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A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War
A reminder of how Germany has committed economic suicide rather than say “no” to the US.
Read more...Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
Instead of closing schools, many communities are pushing their districts to think about schools differently.
Read more...Yellen Plans To Confront China For ‘Unfair’ Clean Energy Subsidies
Treasury Secretary Yellen is complaining to China about allegedly improper green energy subsidies. But is her beef well founded?
Read more...Tweaking US Trade Policy Could Hold the Key to Reducing Migration from Central America
How much of a role did a mid-2000s Central America trade deal play in the migration surge to the US from the region?
Read more...IMF, in a Quiet Slap to the US, Urges Non-Alignment in Second Cold War
When you’ve lost the IMF…..
Read more...Democrats Furiously Finger-Wagging Over Billionaire Nicole Shanahan as RFK, Jr.’s Vice Presidential Pick
A short look at the Democrat-aligned-press breakdown over the RFK, Jr. choice of Silicon Valley’s Nichole Shanahan as his VP.
Read more...The Crocus City Hall Attack – An Operational Failure
The Crocus City Hall attack does not appear to have achieved any of its presumed aims, beyond the death count.
Read more...The Evidence on the Crocus Gang Attack in Moscow
An update on information and conjectures about the Crocus City Hall massacre.
Read more...Iraq And Iran Will Expedite Development Of Sanctions-Busting Shared Oil Fields
Similar to how US overreach made Russia and China allies, so too have US policies in the Middle East lead Iran and Iraq to team up.
Read more...Monstrous Zionist Extermination in Gaza Continues as US Attempts Voter-Appeasing Headfakery
Some Gaza updates: carnage and starvation on the ground, cynical US machinations, and more signs of IDF weakness.
Read more...Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models
Read more...The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
This column studies the rise and fall of paper money in 13-14th century China over three stages: full silver convertibility, nominal silver convertibility, and fiat standard.
Read more...Financial Times Tells CalPERS Not to Go Further Into the Private Equity Haunted House
The Financial Times debunks private equity flim-flammery even as CalPERS and others sign up for more.
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