What Russia is up to and what if anything the West can do continues to dominate the media. Too bad we know so little about what is afoot
Read more...You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
Read more...Gazprom is scheduled to announce what its roubls-for-gas payments stipulations are, even though most Western countries said no, sight unseen.
Read more...Michael Hudson continues to discuss how Western sanctions are undermining the central role of the dollar in US economic dominance.
Read more...Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Europe will compete with the biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more than all four combined.
Read more...What to make of Shanghai’s sudden reversal of its plan to forego a Covid lockdown?
Read more...Conflict victimisation in WWII left a negative imprint on levels of political trust throughout Europe and Central Asia that has persisted over generations.
Read more...Michael Hudson answers the Saker’s questions about the ramifications of Russia’s “gas only for roubles if you have been mean to us” measure.
Read more...Don’t buy the hype about wages rising naturally About 1/3 of American workers are underpaid due to the refusal to raise the minimum wage.
Read more...Workers begin voting Friday at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, culminating an organizing drive by upstarts from their ranks.
Read more...Attempting to clear some of the fog around the Russia counter-sanction of requiring rouble payment for gas by “unfriendly nations.”
Read more...The work of the IPCC is necessary. That’s why it’s important that the UN not be the owners of the go-to reports it issues.
Read more...Clearing up misunderstandings about the Russian move to require unfriendly countries to pay roubles for gas.
Read more...Yves here. It might seem easy to dismiss the child-warehousing-masquerading-as-education perpetrated by Accel Schools as a charter school outlier. But as this article explains, Accel embodies a new trend to profit-maximization and asset stripping in this arena. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance […]
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