Despite reports of ruthless Biden efforts at containment, calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race grow.
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Biden Twists in the Wind as Big Donors Close Wallets, Party Criticism Persists Despite Clampdown, and Pelosi Questions His Decision to Continue
Topics: Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 187 Comments »
“Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.”
More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:18 am | 24 Comments »
Something Rotten in the State of Albion
A look at Britain’s image versus its conduct.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:15 am | 50 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump VP picks; Biden’s wall of Black support; Pelosi: “Not so fast!” ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 109 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart
NATO is looking wobbly and many of its woes are self inflicted.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:26 am | 42 Comments »
Radioactive Real Estate: Finding a Forever Home for Nuclear Waste
Castoffs from U.S. nuclear weapons get buried at one site in New Mexico. But what happens when that facility fills up?
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:56 am | 11 Comments »
Links 7/10/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 206 Comments »
Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims
EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Topics: China, Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, New McCarthyism, Politics, Russia, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 27 Comments »
Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Media watch
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:55 am | 26 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts (no good news at all); Biden on Morning Joe; open processes to replacing Biden; the Enneagram ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 94 Comments »
The Biden Donor Convention
Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:46 am | 83 Comments »
Links 7/9/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 227 Comments »
It Is Now Labour’s Turn to Expand the Piecemeal Privatisation of the UK’s National Health Service
To treat the NHS’s ills, Keir Starmer’s government is talking about bringing back Tony Blair’s health secretary, Alan Milburn, who is now in the pay of corporations with interests in the UK’s healthcare sector.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »
‘How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We Are Everywhere’
How Israel uses inhumane, experimental surveillance technology against Palestinians. Will this become that new normal?
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Social policy, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:59 am | 11 Comments »
EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability
EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 60 Comments »