The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
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Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...Durham Report: The Republic We Didn’t Keep
The Durham Report and State Crimes Against Democracy
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Read more...Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.
Read more...Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?
Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight
Read more...Senators Ramp Up 14th Amendment Pressure on Biden to Counter GOP Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship
Although the GOP created the debt ceiling, Democrats are culpable for neither challenging its Constitutionality nor using the platinum coin.
Read more...‘Adversarial Actors, Home and Abroad’
Which non-foreign adversarial types do elites have in mind when they promote domestic censorship and news blockades?
Read more...‘Market Fundamentalism’ Is an Obstacle to Progress
Why market cheerleaders are bad for you.
Read more...CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Musicco and Son in NBA Playoffs Courtside Seats Next to Billionaire Warriors Owner and Kleiner Perking Partner Joe Lacob. What Gives?
Another case of a CalPERS executive, here Chief Investment Officer Nicole Musicco, making clear they think they are above California law
Read more...China and the Revenge of the Sanctioned
How US ham-handed use of force and misreadings of key players’ interests, allowed China to suddenly take a leadershp role in the Middle East
Read more...Is The U.S. Preparing To Punish OPEC?
Has the US still not worked out that there are some parties it can’t push around, and OPEC might be one of them?
Read more...Some US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine
While it is now acceptable to suggest negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, that’s still a long way from a needed consensus.
Read more...New California Program Wants All Hate “Incidents” Reported to the State
The CA vs Hate hotline will document any action or behavior “motivated by hate” but legally protected by the First Amendment right to freedom of expression. Similar efforts are in the works for other states and cities.
Read more...Ukraine’s Neoliberalism on Steroids, Europe’s Economic Suicide
Yves here. Sit back and enjoy yet another discussion between Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson, this time joined by Professor Mick Dunford at the Geopolitical Hour. Today’s tour starts with Ukraine, moves to Russia, and then continues to Europe, the US and China. It is noteworthy to see the Western media act as if Europe’s […]
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