Category Archives: Politics

From Pugachev To Lebed – The Muzhik Rebellion Fizzles Out Without Bloodshed, Prigozhin to Exile

The Prigozhin rebellion is looking to be not that much more than a one day wonder.

Fog of Prigozhin: His Bizarre and Surely Doomed Military Revolt

Prigozhin has really completely lost it. But is his revolt as big a threat as the Western press seems to believe?

A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change

Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?

ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”

Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care

Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health

A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?

Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings

Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.

Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds

The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.

Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator

When you thought the US might finally have hit bottom on the China front, we show we can reach new lows.

The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth

The bloody war in Ukraine has reached the carnage phase, as least for Urkaine’s men and their backers.

Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent

Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.

Blinken-Qin Talks in Beijing: US and China Agree to Keep Talking Past Each Other

Readouts from a meeting between Anthony Blinken and his counterpart Qin Gang indicate the US and China are barely communicating.

To His Last Breath, Daniel Ellsberg Fought to Save the World

Paul Jay on Ellsberg: “Dan fearlessly risked everything in his unwavering quest for social justice and opposition to war. “

Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance

A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.

Why Student Debt Is So High

The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?

Correcting the Record on the Origin Story of Beowulf’s Trillion Dollar Coin

What it says on the tin, or rather the platinum.