Yves here. Medea Benjamin and Nicholas Davies explain how American ignorance and jingoism, even at supposedly elite levels, allow neocons to continue to foment war, despite their record of failure.…
You know it’s bad when Rand Paul has emerged as seemingly the only vocal supporter of the First Amendment in Congress, at least when the topic is Tik-Tok. But a…
Conor here: In the long run, Europe’s warm winter might not be seen as such a blessing. It allowed European politicians to keep burying their heads in the sand, push…
Yves here. In a meaty talk with Danny Haiphong of The Left Lens, Michael Hudson discusses his new book, The Collapse of Antiquity, and shows how its themes relate to…
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In some of the latest news on the student loan debt crisis, the pause in federal student loan payments that has been in effect since March 2020 may soon come…
Conor here: As far as I can tell, no one from Purdue Pharma, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson, Johnson & Johnson, or any of the other distributors have gone to jail…
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Yves here. This article is consistent with something we have said for some time: that it will take war-level mobilization to make real headway on reducing greenhouse gas emission. Invoking…
Yves here. The fact that we’re in a generally busy time, news-wise (geopolitical power and physical struggles, bank panics, Trump in the dock) means that some important stories are not…