Mexico’s President AMLO responds by refusing to discuss the matter with US Ambassador Ken Salazar while giving the Mexican people a brief history lesson on US interference in Latin America.
Read more...A new Team Democrat messaging strategy boils down to “War is love.”
Read more...Michael Hudson reprises a favorite theme of how the salutary practice of debt forgiveness came to an end under Greco-Roman oligarchs
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics ~
Read more...Biden might be senile and Blinken stupid, but it’s the plutocrats and their think tanks that run the show in Washington.
Read more...Are both parties set to continue stimulative fiscal policy, leaving Powell or a successor to reapply the monetary policy brake?
Read more...The chokepoint concept with a lot of maps and many examples
Read more...István Mészáros’ “Beyond Leviathan” described origins of the state, its evolution, the need to move beyond it and how to meet that challenge
Read more...In her DNC speech, Kamala Harris embraced Republican language on the economy. So how deep does her purported progressivism run?
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Kennedy live briefing at 2:00PM ET; This week’s RCP polling averages (neck and neck); New Covid charts (no improvements); The toll of scientific lies ~
Read more...Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Read more...Remarkable detail of how a gift card scammer successfully worked a mark, even with a bank and police trying to intervene.
Read more...A patient stares down a fabricated surgery charge. But what does it say about the prevalence of billing fraud that this matter went to court?
Read more...The party convention demonstrates how dangerously disconnected the DNC is about our disastrous strategies in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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