The High and Getting Higher Cost of Renting in the US
Why renting is even more expensive than ever, even pinching the soi-disant middle class.
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The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine
“Fool me once, shame on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me.” The Global Soutn has wised up in the wake of the war in Iraq.
Read more...A Feminist Demand on International Women’s Day: Fire Victoria Nuland
If feminists support this Bush-era neocon simply because she is a woman, Victoria Nuland might just burn down the world in a nuclear fire.
Read more...Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi’s “Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies” chronicles Wikileaks’ publications and the dehumanization of Julian Assange.
Read more...Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Read more...How Private Equity Bribes Public Pension Fund Officials: Subsidized/Fund-Paid Lavish Travel and Entertainment
Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
Read more...Turkish President Erdoğan’s Grip on Power Threatened by Devastating Earthquake
The massive February 6 earthquake weakened Erdogan’s already not-so-hot re-election prospects. What now?
Read more...‘Absolute Hypocrisy’: GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Read more...The Gas Stove Panic
The recent Biden campaign to restrict gas stove in homes is decidely inorganic. What might be behind it?
Read more...Is Civilization at Stake in Ukraine?
An effort to deflate the hype over the probable loss of the war by Ukraine does not go far enough.
Read more...Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer
Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick Spooks and divers in the Baltic with the C4.
How the Left Should Exercise Power Once They Have It
Another episode in the long-running soap opera, “Can the Left Be Saved?”
Read more...The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Read more...Biden’s Documents Dilemma
Obama is the most likely hidden hand behind the Biden documents reveal. That fact confirms America having reached banana republic status.
Read more...Debt Ceiling Arm Wrestling Targets Ukraine Spending
The upcoming debt ceiling fight has an unusual feature: Republican opposition to military pork, or at least the Ukraine variety.
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