Israeli Forces Spark Global Outrage by Intercepting Sumud Flotilla Off Gaza Coast [Updated]
Israel has captured some of the courageous passengers and crew of the Gaza relief ship Sumud. They will be tortured.
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What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...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.
Read more...Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.
Read more...The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Read more...The Karl Marx Question
Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?
Read more...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.
Read more...“BRICS Are the New Defenders of Free Trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank” and Supporting Genocide by Continuing to Trade with Israel
Discussions of how BRICS is not living up to its lofty promises and is on the path to supporting neoliberalism and hegemony in new clothes
Read more...Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate
Poland-Ukraine frictions are at odds with some possible end-of-Ukraine-conflict schemes.
Read more...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
Read more...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
Read more...How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
How student loans became a vehicle for higher educational profiteering and exploitation of students.
Read more...Satyajit Das: On Reading – Textual Pleasures
On the role of reading, particulalry for book lovers.
Read more...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 […]
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