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Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day

Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?

Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism

Michael Hudson recaps the long history of limits on lenders’ rights for the benefit of society and how the Roman era was an inflection point

This entry was posted in Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy on August 30, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland

Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on August 30, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop

Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Pandemic, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on August 29, 2025 by KLG.

Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It.

Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.

This entry was posted in Coffee Break, Privatization, Social policy on August 28, 2025 by Curro Jimenez.

Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?

The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]

This entry was posted in Doomsday scenarios, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on August 27, 2025 by KLG.

Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats

Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable

This entry was posted in Africa, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, Social values on August 23, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Neoliberalism Is Not a Viable Option

How neoliberalism contributes to the growth of fascism.

The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions

American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.

On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone

On the long process of Urkaine national identify formation and why, even with that, Ukraine was relatively late to become a state.

This entry was posted in Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values on August 20, 2025 by Yves Smith.

Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?

RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.

The Straw Man City and the Architecture of Selective Small Government

Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Politics, Social policy, Social values on August 17, 2025 by Conor Gallagher.