The Pentagon Goes to School
The battle for the soul of American science.
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
Rethinking US Foreign Policy for a Multipolar World
Imagining a new set of American values with the help of Whip Randolph’s “One Disease, One Cure.”
Read more...How the “Rules-Based International Order” Uses Humanitarianism to Turn Refugees Into Disposable Migrant Labor
Book review: “Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work” by Laura Robson.
Read more...Why the Cost of Water for Poor Black Detroit Voters May Be Key to Kamala Harris Winning – Or Losing – Michigan
Turns out that water and genocide are issues that are difficult to gloss over.
Read more...Assassination Attempt No. 2 in a Land That Worships the God of Violence
America’s tendency to violence is ever more obvious with the Trump assassination attempts and enthusiasm for terrorism by exploding pagers.
Read more...The West’s Blunders Help Fuel Russia’s Far East Development
A tip of the cap to the geniuses at the US State Department.
Read more...Boeing Faces Cash Crunch and Ratings Downgrade as Machinists Union Goes on Strike
Boeing is in a staredown with its machinists’ union over pay and other issues. With downgrade possible, what are the odds of a bailout?
Read more...The EU Retreats Further into a World of Self-Delusion
Mario Draghi calls for Europe, decimated by self-inflicted energy crisis and social austerity, to go on borrowing spree to pay for endless fight against Russia.
Read more...Harris Can’t Embrace Billionaires if She Wants to Win
But has she already embraced them?
Read more...The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is Mired in Red Tape
How Georgia’s Medicaid work rules are operating as planned.
Read more...How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
A much-needed look at how the mainstream media has tried to ignore and even justify Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Read more...Religion Matters for Economic Growth through Various Channels
Religion is a ubiquitous social phenomena that can spur or impair economic growth by affecting four elements of the macroeconomic production function – physical capital, human capital, population/labour, and total factor productivity.
Read more...Satyajit Das: New Asian Cinematic Obsessions
A discussion of recent Japanese and Korean films, and the origins of this cinematic vogue.
Read more...Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?
Not only do most people not want to die for questionable causes like the US empire, they don’t want to kill for them either.
Read more...Who Are the Global Super-Rich of Tomorrow? We Interviewed Teens at One of the World’s Most Expensive Schools to Find Out
Gee, even super-rich kids have trouble deciding what they want to be when they grow up.
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