The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
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Quelle Surprise: NYT Piece on Nigeria’s “Worst Economic Crisis in Decades” Completely Ignores Its Disastrous CBDC Experiment
The world’s largest live CBDC program (to date) has so far been a destructive flop. And that is probably the last thing the editors of the New York Times want its readers to know.
Read more...Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...Insufficient Supervisory Board Competence as a Risk Factor for Banks
Banking and financial market expertise is by no means a given.
Read more...Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Read more...Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s Future
Does Italy’s decades-long breakdown of the social contract provide a glimpse of what’s coming for Germany and the rest of Europe?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU
How the US has used control over the supply of key agricultural commodities to defend its hegemony.
Read more...Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Read more...Links 6/16/2024
French Snap Elections: ‘Cohabitation’ Could Reshuffle the Cards Between President and Prime Minister
What are the practical consequences if French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc fares poorly in the upcoming snap elections?
Read more...Michael Hudson: US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
Yet another cryptocurrency scheme, here for its major use case, tax evasion. But for a good cause, the US dollar!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; new Covid charts: stay safe out there; Kamala!; sleep and memory ~
Read more...“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...Links 6/14/2024
Milei’s Latest Plan to Embroil Argentina in Ukraine Conflict Involves Sending Five French Fighter Jets That Cannot Fly
Milei’s government appears to be determined to turn Argentina into the first Latin American country to send weapons to Ukraine.
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