Japan wanted an early US trade deal. It is discovering that its sort-of special relationship with the US is not getting it any breaks.
Read more...Major law firms in a storng position to fight Trump diktats about backing conservative interests are paying a price for selling out.
Read more...A look at the workings and effectiveness of Trump hype, from the touted India-Pakistan mediation to DOGE to the new Saudi arms agreement.
Read more...Trump made a big retreat on his China tariffs. But a second gambit, investment restrictions to isolate China, is already giving China fits.
Read more...While Trump’s Liberation Day policies might bring about accidental degrowth, Democrats embrace DOGE-style Abundance. Is there another way?
Read more...On the long-standing religious and ethical proscriptions against usury, and how and why the Catholic Church rebranded it as interest.
Read more...Looking at a big reason why conservatives are so keen to privatize the US Postal Service: to eliminate its unions.
Read more...Netanyahu plans another aggressive incursion into Gaza, intended as a Final Solution of sorts. Is a retaliatory oil embargo a real risk?
Read more...The plaintiffs seeking to claw back funds from misbehaving finance titans like KKR and Blackstone continue their winning streak.
Read more...Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...Another US disgrace in the form of a threat against the World Food Programme to advance a US son-of-floating pier scheme to feed Gazans.
Read more...Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
Read more...A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Read more...Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
Read more...The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
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