Germany’s ‘Krisenmodus’ Has No End in Sight
German elites look to ban opposition party and switch out the chancellor without changing the policies that make him so unpopular – anything to keep up the fight against Russia.
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
“The Right to Housing, Not Vacation Homes”
Efforts to curb AirBnB running unlicensed hotels, which cannibalizes residential housing, have not gone far enough.
Read more...Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
Read more...Seeing the Human in Every Patient − From Biblical Texts to 21st Century Relational Medicine
Medicine, at least in the US, is increasingly divorced from caring for patients, as opposed to treating maladies. Can that be remedied?
Read more...We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...Prof. Michael Hudson, World Predictions for 2024 (USA, UN, Palestine, Russia And BRICS)
Michael Hudson pulls out his crystal ball to forecast what might be in store for 2024.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt
Michael Hudson reprises favorite themes, particularly the role of rentiers and debt dynamics, with some new tidbits.
Read more...Selfishness Cannot Be the Basis of Society
A stereotypical case of an economist putting market concepts over society….worse in family relations.
Read more...Book Review: Sally Denton and Roger Morris, “The Money and the Power”
Examining the moments and people that helped fuse the US state, economy, and organized crime into one indistinguishable entity.
Read more...Brutal Occupation Underpins Class Inequality for Israelis and Palestinians
An interview with Dr. Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli Knesset representing the Hadash party, which stands for Jewish-Arab cooperation based on class solidarity.
Read more...Migrants Are Begging in Brooklyn Neighborhoods That Voted for Trump, Sparking Hostility and Help
Nextdoor and Facebook groups present anecdotes and photos from Marine Park of encounters with migrants from a nearby shelter complex. Others are providing aid.
Read more...Science on Trial, Part 1
A new paper dissects how the Covid crisis demonstrated the failings in how science is practiced now. But are its suggestions for improvement bold enough?
Read more...World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
Read more...The No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues
Why ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been foundational to Israel’s national strategy.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump
The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
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