Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.
Read more...Category Archives: Social policy
Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.
Read more...Farcical Visions of Competitiveness in the EU
What will stop these maniacs first? A popular revolt putting them in padded cells or Russian strikes?
Read more...Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?
Read more...Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism
Michael Hudson recaps the long history of limits on lenders’ rights for the benefit of society and how the Roman era was an inflection point
Read more...Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?
Read more...Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It.
Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?
The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]
Read more...Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats
Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Not a Viable Option
How neoliberalism contributes to the growth of fascism.
Read more...The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions
American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
Read more...On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone
On the long process of Urkaine national identify formation and why, even with that, Ukraine was relatively late to become a state.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...The Straw Man City and the Architecture of Selective Small Government
Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
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