Category Archives: Guest Post

Mexico Scores Major Victory Against Bayer-Owned Monsanto As Corn War With US Reaches Pivotal Moment

“Reason has ultimately prevailed in favour of life, health, nature, biodiversity and food sovereignty.” After a four-year legal battle on multiple fronts with Mexico’s AMLO government, Monsanto has finally thrown in the towel. Last Tuesday, Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) announced that two Mexican divisions of Monsanto — now subsidiaries of […]

Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington

Yet another NATO summit has escalation on the agenda, despite the weakening of the West’s position.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/1/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Supreme Court decision on Presidential immunity and Open Thread ~

Links 7/1/2024

The EU ‘Doom Loop’: Bloc Set to Embrace More Austerity Despite Evidence It Will Cause Further Rightward Shift

The National Rally wins first round in France. Why do the self-described centrists keep making it so easy for the far right?

Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma

Yet another example of inadequate green targets meeting the notion that even that much action is somehow too costly.

Survey Trolls, Opt-In Polls, and the New Era of Survey Science

As polling methods evolve, it can be hard to distinguish solid survey findings from those that dissolve under scrutiny.

Michael Hudson: 18th Century Writers Understand Effects of War Debt Better Than IMF

Michael Hudson explains how the IMF’s view of war debt is dangerously misguided and older economic thinkers had much better take.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2024: Biden v. Trump Post-Match Analysis and Commentary

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden v. Trump and the Democrat succession crisis

Biden Crashes, Trump Lies: A Campaign-Defining Presidential Debate

Yves here. The presidential debate last night is likely to go down as being of historical importance, in the same league as the Kennedy-Nixon debate. But here, instead of demonstrating how the then-young medium rewarded good looks and a confident affect, here it showed two men, which as often happens with the aged, having become […]

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Category Archives: Guest Post

Mexico Scores Major Victory Against Bayer-Owned Monsanto As Corn War With US Reaches Pivotal Moment

Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/1/2024

Links 7/1/2024

Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma

Survey Trolls, Opt-In Polls, and the New Era of Survey Science

Michael Hudson: 18th Century Writers Understand Effects of War Debt Better Than IMF

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2024: Biden v. Trump Post-Match Analysis and Commentary

Biden Crashes, Trump Lies: A Campaign-Defining Presidential Debate

Sifting Through the Debris of Another Failed Coup in Latin America

Layoffs, Retirement, and Post-Pandemic Inflation

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/27/2024

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