As More Hospitals Create Police Forces, Critics Warn of Pitfalls
More American exceptionalism: cops maintaining order in hosptials.
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‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million
A new study tallies the cost of US war-fomenting in the Middle East. The numbers get big fast.
Read more...Eurobanks and London Firms Insist Very Bad Things Will Happened if Euro Derivatives Clearing Moves to Continent
anks and loser clearinghouses are complaining about a (long) planned derivatives relocation to Europe. But is this mainly special pleading?
Read more...The Taliban and the Islamic State Continue to Fight for Afghanistan’s Future
True to form for US nation-breaking exercises, Afghanistan is afficted by continuing facional power strugges.
Read more...The Mercenaries Who Fight for American Empire
How private military contractors, aka mercenaries, are now an essential part of America’s increasingly privatized wars.
Read more...What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground
A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.
Read more...Peter Pan Bonds to the Debt Ceiling Rescue?
Yet another way to circumvent debt ceilng restrictions isn’t getting the consideration it warrants.
Read more...Rochelle Walensky: Not With a Bang but a Puddle of Tears
We had low expecations for Rochelle Walensky and she underperformed. A partial catalogue of the damage she did.
Read more...William Astore: How American Learned to Love, or at Least Not Hate, Its Nuclear Bombs
William Astore recalls his encounters with icons of US nuclear development, and is sad they are still with us.
Read more...4 US Banks Crash in 2 Months: Banking Crisis Explained by Economist Michael Hudson
US banks keep falling over but the Fed is curiously indifferent.
Read more...Violence in Sudan and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
The conflict in Sudan is an expression of the changing world order and the intense fight over resources and critical geographies.
Read more...“All I Want Is a Future”
“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” But what we can see is not pretty.
Read more...Is There Motive Behind the Fed Making Such a Mess of the US Bank Wobbles?
The Fed seems awfully indifferent to the (so far) low level bank crisis it has created.
Read more...What is Section 4 of the 14th Amendment, “The Validity of the Public Debt of the United States?”
As the Republicans are digging on raising the debt ceilings, the idea of a constitutional challenge is starting to get traction.
Read more...Is This the Beginning of the End for Gasoline?
While the arrival of what is probably peak gasoline is good news, there’s a long way to go in reducing its use.
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