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War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism

A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive.

Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.

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From Al-Qaeda to Antifa: “Phantom Terror” Turned Inward and the Rise of a New State

Politics begins by naming an enemy; the state depends on it. Calling Antifa “terrorist” could be the tool to redefine both politics and power

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Politics, Social policy, Surveillance state on September 25, 2025 by Curro Jimenez.

US Medical Care Set to Fracture Over MAHA as States and Physicians Groups Break With Administration Recommendations, Plan to Fund Own Research

How an informational civil war is starting in the wake of MAHA.

The Karl Marx Question

Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?

U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work?

The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.

Trump UK State Visit Demonstrates That the Power Elite Has Drawn Up the Drawbridge Over Safety Fears

The handling of Trump’s UK state visit confirms elite insecurity and safety fears. Like many Trump and UK/EU moves, crackdowns may backfire

Quelle Surprise! CEOs Overwhelmingly Negative on Trump’s Economic Policies as Shallow Fed Rate Cut Confirms Stagflation Worries

Even a bastion of Republican support, CEOs, has soured on Trump’s economic policies, as the damage to regular citizens mounts.

Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US

Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labor. It’s time to finish abolition

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class on September 18, 2025 by Yves Smith.

How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK

The Government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern

How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe

How student loans became a vehicle for higher educational profiteering and exploitation of students.

Coffee Break: Vaccine “Side Effects,” Outdated Theory of Disease, “Life” on Mars, and More on Liberalism

Part the First: Unintended Side Effects of Vaccines. From Science-Based Medicine this week: Unintended Side Effects HPV and Shingles Vaccines—Reason for Concern. This headline is genius in its indirection: Emerging trends in the peer-reviewed scientific literature show new evidence of unintended effects of two popular vaccines—the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and shingles vaccines. Surprising findings […]

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on September 12, 2025 by KLG.

If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?

The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Europe, Moral hazard, Social policy, Social values on September 11, 2025 by Curro Jimenez.

Liberalism as a Way of Life in the Twenty-first Century?

We have previously discussed what the Ancients can teach us. As it turns out, they can teach us much. But things get more dire by the day. Anyone and everyone can make a list of our pathologies. A week of reading the news shows us that as a polity, society, and culture we are in […]

This entry was posted in Politics, Social policy, Social values, The dismal science on September 10, 2025 by KLG.