Is Labour Purging the Left? Inside the Party’s Embattled Selection Process
‘This is the most fundamental attempt to change the DNA of the Labour Party in its entire history’
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Richard Murphy: Do We Trash the Planet or Have Things We Value, Like the NHS? That Is the Question
An examination of the economic law that says as the private sector improves productivity by destroying the planet and creating awful jobs, what’s left of the public sector must do the same.
Read more...Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
Read more...Defeat of a School Voucher Program Reveals Motives Behind the ‘School Choice’ Debate
A newfangled school voucher scheme, “education success accounts,” was too much even for the conservative Virginia House to swallow.
Read more...Sen. Sanders Shows Fire, but Seeks Modest Goals, in His Debut Drug Hearing as Health Chair
“What am I missing in thinking that it’s cruel to make a medicine that people can’t afford?”
Read more...Biden to End Orders Declaring Covid a National Emergency on May 11, Because Why Not?
The pandemic is over when we say it’s over.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
Efforts by governments and cities to defund the public library are thankully falleing short due to essential role libraries play.
Read more...State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling National & Global Digital Enclosures
From fintech to food systems to social media, the State of Big Tech offers a blueprint for the 99% to break privatized status-quo enclosures.
Read more...The Destiny of Civilization: An Interview with Michael Hudson on Economic Development, Rentierism, Debt, China
Another tour de force with Michael Hudson, covering development, rentierism, economic narratives, debt dynamics, and the rise of China.
Read more...CDC, In Yet Another Data Debacle, Fails to Protect You by Butchering Reveal of Covid “Escape” Variant BQ.1*
CDC failed to alert the public to a rapidly doubling and dangerous new variant, BQ.1.* I look at the timeline that shows CDC’s failure to warn, then do a post mortem. Is CDC’s latest betrayal due to malevolence or operational incapacity? Finally, I look at the software CDC depends on, Pangolin.
Read more...Research into 1930s Commuting in London Shows How Public Transport Boosts the Labour Market
In the light of the recent cancellation of bus lines and an announced tube fare increase, this piece analyzes the historic benefits to the labor market of a functioning public transport system.
Read more...Mission Accomplished: “Super Mario” Draghi’s Legacy and the Italian Election
Turnout in Italy’s election was the lowest since WWII as voters lose faith in a system unable to reverse a declining standard of living.
Read more...New USPS Delivery Network: Radically Cutting Rural Service, Headcount; Likely to Further Slow Delivery
The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.
Read more...Gorbachev Paved Way for Oligarchs – Aleksandr Buzgalin
By opposing deep democratic reforms from below, Gorbachev laid the groundwork for privatization and the looting of the 1990s.
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