Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism
Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
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Global Weather Disruptions, Food Commodity Prices, and Economic Activity: A Global Warning For Advanced Countries
Examines the macroeconomic effects of global food commodity price increases that are caused by global harvest and weather disruptions, and finds that the decline in economic activity is substantial and greater in advanced than in low-income countries.
Read more...Imperialism Then and Now: Capital Relocation, Inequality, Encroachment and Protracted Crisis
On how imperialism enabled exploitation of labor in the global South, and then pressure on worker wages in advanced economies.
Read more...Imperialism Then and Now: Drain of Wealth, Depression, The Role of the State and Globalization
Yves here. This is the second section of the GPENewdoc historical series on imperialism and capitalism. You can find Part 1 here. By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPENewsdocs Prabhat Patnaik explains how the colonial system led to depression. Then, in advanced countries governments stepped in to increase demand and productivity, but how unless the […]
Read more...Imperialism Then and Now: Wealth, Unemployment and Insufficient Demand
Prabhat Patnaik on imperialism and capitalism: to accumulate wealth, somewhere demand must be suppressed to provide cheap inputs.
Read more...Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
The Great Reset is a planned corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines.
Read more...Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Read more...Globalization, Specialization, and the Division of Labour
A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.
Read more...The Tokyo Games Prove That the Olympics Are Less Relevant Than Ever
The Olympics keep getting smaller as they move further from their original ideal and become ever more commercial.
Read more...If the Food Supply Chain Collapses Will the Public Finally See Through Brexit?
So is a long expected Brexit disaster finally about to happen, now that Brits believe the disruptions are past?
Read more...It’s Time for a New International Space Treaty
With satellite traffic increasing and space tourism set to take off, the laws governing space are due for an overhaul.
Read more...Industrial Policy Coming Into Vogue After China Cleans US Clock by Using It
Industrial policy is an idea whose time has arrived in DC. Too bad the thinking seems stuck in the fad-chashing phase.
Read more...Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...Reconstructing US-China Relations
Can the US and China be friends, or at least not so hostile? Jeffrey Sachs has some ideas.
Read more...A Round-Up of Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Research
Nasal sprays for vaccination, treatment, and prophylaxis (the last with two over-the-counter products not delivering drugs).
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