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The Biden Donor Convention

Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?

EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability

EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.

What Would a Russian Victory in Ukraine Look Like?

Russia has some thorny and apparently not resolved questions about its end game in Ukraine.

US Fed-Induced World Stagnation Deepens Debt Distress

US and Fed bad cooking has led to weak growth the world, and by urging poor countries to borrow at once-low rates, debt distress.

Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary

Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]