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I agreed with everything in this video. It's a shame the public never get to hear debates like this. [embedded content]

I am planning an MMT Trader gathering and dinner in NYC in late October or early November. Let me know if you can make it.

The push is on to remove Donald Trump from the White House. Republican establishment joins with the Democratic "Resistance."Sparks set to fly, igniting many fires. The reality show is heating up. In light of the newest credible allegations against President Donald Trump, conservative writer Max Boot declared what many have long believed: Trump's presidency is illegitimate because his election was a "fraud." He made this claim based on the fact Trump was elected after having directed his...

The co-optation of the so-called US left, which is really the center in comparison to "the left" in the rest of the world. In the Obama years the marriage of the neocons and the humanitarian interventionists was effected. The neocons, with their doctrine of American Exceptionalism are always ready for an intervention and their justification is always the same: "American moral leadership":Our world needs a policeman. And whether most Americans like it or not, only their indispensable nation...

Expect additions to this thread. This is a developing story. “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others.......” the president tweeted.  “.....Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is...

The president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic has accused the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo of using its development agency to interfere in the Balkan country’s election process, a charge dismissed by the embassy as a “wild” conspiracy theory. ReutersBosnian Serb leader accuses U.S. of meddling in elections, embassy denies charge

The ongoing Browder saga. Lucy Komisar is an investigative journalist who focuses on financial and corporate corruption, particularly the use of offshore bank and corporate secrecy havens. She began investigating William Browder nearly 20 years ago when she learned of his use of an offshore company in the Isle of Man to siphon off profits from the Russian company Avisma, cheating minority investors of dividends and the Russian Treasury of taxes. Her expose was published by 100Reporters, a...

'Government' in the UK...and elsewhere...is a function of a corrupt relationship between politicians and vested interests from the corporate sector and foreign lobbyists. Mark GB highlights the depths of the systemic problem. ******* You won’t find accountability on an organisational chart; because it is a function of character: it’s not about how ‘smart’ you are, it cannot be ‘bought’, and you’ve either led a life that has nourished it…or you haven’t. Clearly, this is not just a...

It is Wednesday and so a short blog. I am working on a number of things at present but getting the material sorted for my next book with Thomas Fazi is a priority at the moment. My snippet today though is about a study that has just come out in the American Political Science Review – Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion among Political Elites – by two US academics. The title is indicative. They explore what they argue is a disjuncture between what the politicians think voters want and what...