Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
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Israeli Newspaper Confirms IDF Employed ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7
IDF soldiers were reportedly ordered to “turn the area around the border fence into a killing zone.”
Read more...Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...How Many People Knew About Biden? Turns Out, A Lot
How long has the cover-up about Biden’s deterioration been going on?
Read more...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?
Read more...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.
Read more...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 […]
Read more...Fear & Loathing on The Economist Subscription Trail
Satayjit Das’ penetrating and witty look at The Economist reveals a great deal not to like.
Read more...Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech in Murthy v. Missouri Ruling
A very bad day for what passed for free speech in the US.
Read more...Are Extreme Stunt Climate Activists Like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil Actually Fossil Fuel Industry Stooges? They Might as Well Be
Why deliberately offensive and therefore counterproductive climate change activism looks like a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Read more...US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad’s Murder of Banana Workers
A rare bit of justice, and perhaps also US consciousness raising, over corporate backed murder abroad.
Read more...Black Sea Port Becomes Geopolitical Battleground Between China and the EU
Western handwringing over China building a port a little too close to Europe’s backyard.
Read more...Research on Earth’s Raging Heat of 2023-24 Is Picking Up
La Niña will most likely quell a stretch of global record heat, but human-produced greenhouse gases loom as large as ever.
Read more...Georgia Appeals Court Halts Trump Election Interference Case
There is much rending of hair over Trump winning delay in his election interference case that will push any trial past the election.
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