Economic Management in War: Professor Michael Hudson in Discussion with Ian Proud
An informative and wide-ranging conversation of how economic policies can neglect, support, or impede the prosecution of war
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The Credibility Crisis in Science
Albert Einstein was chosen by Time magazine as the Person of the Twentieth Century. It was a good choice (and now is a good time to read Einstein more than seventy years after his death in April 1955, here and here). As noted by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer in their newly published book, The […]
Read more...The Fertility Panic Is a Racist, Sexist Tool to Push More Austerity
The fertility freakout conveniently ignores that being a mother is not a great deal and that for planetary health, fewer babies is desirable.
Read more...Coffee Break: American Science in the Crosshairs, Nuclear Nightmares, and a Vision of a Good Life
Part the First: The Attack on American Science Continues, Unabated. A few days ago the president fired the National Science Board (NSB), all twenty-two members of a statutory twenty-five, who served staggered six-year terms that preserved institutional memory. The NSB was created pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to “recommend and encourage […]
Read more...Teens’ Social Media Behaviour in 43 Countries – Those From Disadvantaged Backgrounds Face Greater Harms
Quelle surprise! Social media kingpins are more successful at exploiting the lower orders
Read more...Russell’s Teapot: Dispatches From the Final Stage of the AI Bubble
The AI future sold to markets rests on claims that cannot survive scrutiny, not foresight but hype dressed up as inevitability.
Read more...China Surpasses US in Research Spending – The Consequences Extend Far Beyond Scientific Ranking and Clout
The Make America Great Again mega yacht springs another leak.
Read more...Coffee Break: Alzheimer’s Disease Still a Mystery and Books Worth Reading
Part the First: Anti-amyloid Antibodies and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A Cochrane review of monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid plaques in AD has found that these drugs have little to no effect on cognitive function of AD patients. Cochrane reviews are, to use one of the favorite tropes of the current administration, considered the “gold standard” of […]
Read more...Food Stamp Work Rules Don’t Increase Employment, Researchers Say
Quelle surprise! Punitive food stamp restrictions do not produce an increase in work levels.
Read more...Palantir’s Manifesto Is the Agenda of the New Class Reconfiguring the System’s Power Structure
Palantir’s manifesto is the stated agenda of a new class within the system’s power structure, driven by a binary worldview of 0 and 1
Read more...Industrial Agriculture and the Future of Food and Health
We have discussed the Great American Food System (GAFS) throughout this series, most recently in review of What to Eat Now (2025) by Marion Nestle. That the GAFS is productive, in both tonnage and profit (for some) is a given. But a common view of its critics is that much of this production is misguided, […]
Read more...What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?
AI surveillance and algorithmic management threaten worker autonomy and dignity.
Read more...Louisiana Advances One of the Country’s ‘Cruelest’ Anti-Homeless Bills
One homeless advocacy group said the bill, which would require homeless people to perform unpaid labor to pay for involuntary treatment, “evokes debtor’s prisons, convict leasing, and the ugliest day of Jim Crow.”
Read more...Democracy Depends on Broad-Based Taxation—History Is Clear About That
How governments raise revenue, as in taxation versus slavery or external extraction, determines their accountability to citizens.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Book Essay: Walter Benjamin – Leftist Outsider, Man of Letters
An overview of the acutely observant, enigmatic and quixotic writer and thinker, Walter Benjamin
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