Wednesday, September 17, 2025
How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?
A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.
No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth
Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.
A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
Hooray! Met Our Fourth Goal, On to Our Fifth: Karōshi Prevention
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A Dilly in Philly: Kamala v. Trump Presidential Debate Live Blog
Volatility is the central feature of this election, despite all efforts to keep things stable. It follows that the debate will be volatile.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala: Change vs. more of the same; Melania intervenes; Trump’s ear, examined; Winds carry potential pathogens over great distances. ~
Thomas Neuburger: 5G War, or Why You Need Naked Capitalism
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First Russia-China Barter Trade May Come This Autumn, Sources Say
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The Myth That the US is Rapidly Approaching Bankruptcy
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff take apart widespread myths about Federal spending and debts.
Another Regime Change Operation Begins to Fizzle in Venezuela, As Opposition Leader Flees to Spain
Does this mean Venezuela is about to have another parallel government with a puppet leader in exile? In other words, a Guaidó 2.0? Probably not.
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
Kudos! Hit Third Fundraiser Target, On to the Fourth: Guest Bloggers
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2:00PM Water Cooler 9/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ; Siena poll turns out not necessarily to Kamala’s advantage; Kennedy ad deserves to go viral; Kamala visits Penzeys spice in Pittsburgh; Boeing signals more work in Renton with industrial lease, contract proposal ~
