COP27 Fiddling as World Warms
COP27, the latest climate ‘blah-blah,’ began with rich nation backpedalling due to the NATO sanctions-induced energy crisis.
Read more...COP27, the latest climate ‘blah-blah,’ began with rich nation backpedalling due to the NATO sanctions-induced energy crisis.
Read more...On the cost of war, particularly the kind the US has no business fighting.
Read more...Rising housing and medical costs meet fixed incomes to push older peope into desperation and homelessness.
Read more...Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...Has the wily Netanyahu backed himself into a corner?
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how financial capitalism won the struggle with industrial capitalism and gave rentiers the upper hand.
Read more...Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base
Read more...Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...Is Twitter really a hellscape of hate and bigotry? And what will happen to Twitter now that Musk has taken it over?
Read more...Another tour de force with Michael Hudson, covering development, rentierism, economic narratives, debt dynamics, and the rise of China.
Read more...America is rotting from the top, witness the arrogance and incompetence of our elites. But are we also faling short on skilled workmen?
Read more...States and localities across the US continue to pass laws criminalizing “public camping” and other draconian crackdowns on the increasing number of homeless people in the country.
Read more...Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.
Read more...Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites
Read more...Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
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