Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion
The IMF made a comprehensive tally of fossil fuels subsidies. Both the level and the trajectory are sobering.
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Danny Haiphong: Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson Join on BRICS Plus Six, Ukraine, and the Multipolar World Economy!
Danny Haiphong talks to Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar about hot mulitipolarity topics, particularly BRICS and its “currency” plans
Read more...Technotage on the Rise? More Efforts to Stymie Job-Threatening, Sometimes Hazardous “Innovations”
Ant-technology action, or technotage, seems to be increasing. Is this a trend or just coincidence?
Read more...Testing Marx
The findings highlight the role of historical, institutional, and technological factors in shaping capitalist trajectories, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach may be insufficient.
Read more...As Covid Surges, Los Angeles County Public Health Takes a Minimalist Approach
Mask up, Taylor! FFS.
Read more...Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...The NYT & WSJ’s Critical Articles About Kiev’s Counteroffensive Explain Why It Failed
It’s now in the open that US and Ukraine were at odds about the much vaunted counteroffensive, even when it was clear it would not get far
Read more...Despite 4 Indictments, Trump Will Still Be the GOP Nominee
Trump won’t be over until he is over, and that will not be before the Republican convention.
Read more...Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal
Some of the major entries in Kissinger’s rap sheet.
Read more...BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges
BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?
Read more...Medicare for All, Not Medicare Advantage
How Medicare Advantage plans raid taxpayer funds and routinely fail to deliver the care that patients expect and deserve.
Read more...Jonesing on Carbon
A reminder that the rich are grossly dispropirtionate carbon fuel users.
Read more...China And U.S. Lock Horns Over New 122.5% Steel Tariff
Yet another US/China trade row, this one over steel.
Read more...China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles
The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Read more...Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change
A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.
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