Mike Norman Economics

Some people, like PCR, says women's rights have gone too far and men are being undermined. Maybe that's true, I don't know. Some aggressive feminists are certainly over the top, but how many are there, few thousand here and there, maybe? A very tiny minority.The dialectic process: thesis - a male dominant society; antithesis -a rise in feminism; synthesis - both male and female roles have equal value and reward in society.I read years ago about how women often made better bosses than men...

Strategic Culture FoundationGefälschte Nachrichten ["Fake News"] ZMAN Intel TodayTwo Years Ago — “US Global Engagement Center” Set Up to Fight Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Fort Russ NewsWest is ‘Shocked’ at Underestimating Russian Capabilities Paul Antonopoulos The National InterestChina’s New Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missile Can Hit the U.S. Michael Peck Sputnik InternationalIndia Believes West is Not Altruistic About China's Huawei - Official Sputnik...

The company, New Knowledge, alleges to track Russian Twitter trolls who are meddling in U.S. elections, except they have been outed as setting up these fake Twitter accounts in the first place, but the media is not reporting on it. [embedded content]

Reminiscence of the FutureSome News For Tom Rogan. Andrei Martyanov The Vineyard of the SakerGame-Changer! New HYPERSONIC Missile System Means No One is Bombing Russia EVER! The Saker Valdai Discussion Club‘No existing countermeasures’ to Russian hypersonic weapons, US govt. report admits Sputnik InternationalUS Aims for Space Supremacy Pose Potential Threats to Russia, China - Ambassador SouthFrontUS Boosts Number Of Its High-Precision Weapons Near Russian borders: Navy TASSUS planned...

George Galloway is fearless. As a young man he was a boxer, but he wasn't all fireworks, like Mike Tyson, or a showman, like Muhammad Ally; no, he would just give one fatal blow after another until his opponent wilted. George knew when he was going to win, which was when he saw in his opponents eyes that they just wanted it to stop. Today, he still sees that look of fear in many of his political opponent's eyes.He's making another film, which is about the strange death of Dr David...

Uh-oh! [embedded content] Charlotte Dubenskij reports on the ongoing Yellow Vest movement in France and the petition circulating demanding to sue the government over negligence when it comes to fighting climate change. Then, Ashlee Banks talks with Former UK MP George Galloway about Macron’s concessions, the future and goals of the Yellow Vest movement and the uprisings across Europe and Asia that they are inspiring.

This video is five years old, but it is still pertinent today. To think of the type of society we could have had, instead of the dog eat dog, low waged, excessive hours at work, high debt society we have today. McJobs! [embedded content] A two-minute excerpt from a General Motors video is a classic example of how easy it is to con American citizens into voting for the wrong politicians. By totally misrepresenting how working-class living standards improved, conservatives have convinced...

Dean Baker doesn't think there is going to be a recession soon, nor does he think that Trump has left the U.S. ill prepared for the next recent recession when it does come. For one thing, Dean Baker is not worried about the deficit. There is a popular theme in the media these days that the Trump administration is leaving us poorly prepared for the next recession. The basic story is that high deficits and debt will leave us less room to have a large stimulus when the next recession hits. This...

Branko Milanovic explains why Marx's historical analysis of socio-economic phenomena remains not only relevant but also preeminent, based on a few key insights. While he does not identify as a Marxist or even a Marxian, he credits the important influence of Marx on his thinking.There are no non-trivial economic phenomena that are not socio-economic, and Marx is the analyst that put his finger on the how and why. While it would be a mistake to dogmatize Marx, it would also be a great mistake...

The Russians are getting blamed for everything: They were behind the Yellow Vests protest; the Brexit vote was blamed on them; the BBC recently said that Russia uses humor to influence people, but no jokes are ever allowed to be said about Putin; the Russians influenced the black vote either by getting them to stay at home, or vote for Trump, or Jill Stein.When the Google CEO was asked by Congress if they had identified how much money Russian agents had spent on influencing the presidential...