‘The Greed of UnitedHealth Is Killing Americans’: Progressives Hit Back as Insurance CEO Bashes Medicare for All
The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
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Mourning Notre Dame
A few sad words about the loss of Notre Dame.
Read more...How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Read more...Sanders Takes the Campaign Against CAP to Eleven
Sanders takes off his gloves.
Read more...Where Are All the Bugs Going and What Can I Do About It?
Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...The Return of la Marine
Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
Read more...New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis
The Sackler family and PurduePharma profited from opioid-related “suffering and death,” NYC AG Letitia James charges. White collar criminologist and law professor Bill Black weighs in.
Read more...Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False, It’s Bad for You
Meritocracy is a dubious ideology, save for supporting the status quo.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson: A New “Reality Economics” Curriculum Is Needed (Part 4)
How mainstream economics ignores the lessons from antiquity on the destructiveness of oligachies, and how early industrialists and business schools promoted anti-rentier, socialit policies.
Read more...Put Bernie Sanders’ Face on Those Joe Biden Photos, Then Imagine What Party Leaders Would Be Saying
Another cut on #MeToo’s hypocisy with respect to Biden.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson: The Inherent Financial Instability in Western Civilization’s DNA (Part 3)
By John Siman, who is also the author of Part 1 and Part 2 in this series John Siman: It seems that unless there’s a Hammurabi-style “divine king” or some elected civic regulatory authority, oligarchies will arise and exploit their societies as much as they can, while trying to prevent the victimized economy from defending […]
Read more...Yasha Levine: Respectable Racists
Racists are well tolerated in liberal bastions in America….as long as they are the right sort of racist.
Read more...Money Talks, Big Time: 1% Politics and the Scandals of A New Gilded Age
A social order where the power of money plays an outsized role looks illegitiamate, particularly when citizens have been sold the myth of meritocracy.
Read more...The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson About His Forthcoming Book The Collapse of Antiquity (Part 1)
Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers.
Read more...What Oklahoma’s Opioid Settlement Means for Other States, Cities and Counties Suing Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
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