Yves here. You are getting an extra portion of Michael Hudson due to his having allowed us to post his intriguing and extremely informative introduction to Giorgio Buccellati’s At the…
It appears Palestinians in Gaza are not dying quickly enough to satisfy the real estate development timetables of some Israelis. So eight members of the Knesset sent a letter to…
There are plenty of theories of what brought down Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 on Christmas Day. The plane, which was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in the…
Conor here: Maybe the NGOs aren’t going to save us. By Aaron Kirshenbaum, CODEPINK’s War is Not Green campaigner and East Coast regional organizer. Cross posted from Common Dreams. On…
If you liked Michael Hudson’s introduction to Friedrich Schurtz’s book, the Origins of Money, this is a companion introduction dealing more with technology and urbanization than with money. Giorgio Buccellati…
Yves here. There are so many hot-button areas where Team Trump is planning big changes, such as immigration, tariffs, and the Ukraine conflict, that there are many other key areas…
The Wall Street Journal published a seemingly pretty good piece, Elite Colleges Have a Looming Money Problem. However the funding squeeze has long been in the making and it might…
Yves here. The far-too-widely-read Tom Friedman has become a parody of a know-nothing American showing off his case of Dunning-Kruger effect. I must confess to lacking the motivation to read…
“as linguists decipher elephant language, they are puzzled….” allgebrah, ThreadReaderApp ‘Extremely yellow’ creature caught off Pacific island. See the new ‘duckbill’ species News&Observer To conserve or cull? Life in Australia’s…
After avoiding the issue for years, the legacy media are now trying to manufacture public complacency and consent for the government’s digital identity — and by extension, CBDC — agenda.…