"Money is going to drown our democracy, and if we don't start fighting back, and fighting back more aggressively, then we are part of the problem as well." Yep. Common DreamsElizabeth Warren: Democrats Will Keep Losing Until the Entire Party Is 'Willing to Take on the Billionaire Class'Jake Johnson, staff writer
Read More »Navarro: There’s a special place in hell for Justin Trudeau
Wow now Navarro invoking the Hell Doctrine (unspecific doom forecast) for Trudeau; now its getting really nasty...Trump's trade adviser, Peter Navarro: "There's a special place in hell" for Justin Trudeau https://t.co/lwa7gN9TgV— Axios (@axios) June 10, 2018
Read More »Maximilian C. Forte — “One Day This Door is Going to Open”: A Review of “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang” (Documentary)
Great backgrounder. Apparently, Dennis Rodman was a lot more important in bringing the Trump-Kim summit about that most people realize or the media and establishment are willing to admit. The article also provides an inside view of North Korea that gives the lie to Western propaganda, as well as exposing the US media attempt to destroy Rodman personally.Zero Anthropology“One Day This Door is Going to Open”: A Review of “Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang” (Documentary) Maximilian C....
Read More »Chris Cook — Energy Dominance And America First
Must-read. The method behind Trump's "madness."Seeking AlphaEnergy Dominance And America FirstChris Cook See also Strategic Culture FoundationThe Geostrategy That Guides Trump"s Foreign PoliciesEric Zuesse
Read More »Sandwichman — The Wage[s]-Lump Doctrine — still dogma after all these years
The lump-of-labor fallacy CLAIM is the wage-fund doctrine in disguise. The fallacy claim's conclusions about the ultimate futility of workers' demands are indistinguishable from the doctrine's conclusions. Only the premise from which those conclusions are deduced has been altered. Instead of asserting a certain quantity of work to be done, the fallacy claim attributes that fixed assumption to a designated scapegoat: workers, unions, populists. The claimants' own assumptions are left...
Read More »Ramanan — The Burden Of Adjustment And Keynes’ Solution
Argentina had a balance-of-payments crisis recently and required help. The IMF has agreed for a stand-by arrangement of $50 billion on the condition in the IMF’s own words: “At the core of the government’s economic plan is a rebalancing of the fiscal position. We fully support this priority and welcome the authorities’ intention to accelerate the pace at which they reduce the federal government’s deficit, restoring the primary balance by 2020. This measure will ultimately lessen the...
Read More »Trump trying to get Russia back in the G8
Axios with a report on Trump's quick remarks prior to departure for the G7 in Canada yesterday. Maybe with the arrest this week (finally!) by DOJ of the first of the criminal coup plotters against him he felt more empowered to start to finally introduce his policy changes wrt to Russia at this point...This is interesting here (TRIGGER the libertarians): "Russia should be in the meeting... You know whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to...
Read More »G7 + 2
Sundance's take on the first day from TLR: Apparently the six-against-one plan was considered unfair to the six, so they added two more. Unfortunately for Canada, France, Germany and the U.K., Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte are not foolish enough to take on Godzilla. As an entirely predictable outcome, President Trump won again. It’s just so darned funny to watch this play out. The era of the titan is back, and deliciously the titan is an American...
Read More »Pepe Escobar — How Singapore, Astana and St Petersburg preview a new world order
It is enlightening to remember that at the Shangri-la Dialogue two years ago, Professor Xiang Lanxin, director of the Centre of One Belt and One Road Studies at the China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation, described BRI as an avenue to a ‘post-Westphalian world.’ That’s where we are now. Western elites cannot but worry when central banks in China, Russia, India and Turkey actively increase their physical gold stash; when Moscow and Beijing discuss...
Read More »Richard Murphy — The battle for money has begun
We live in a dangerous time when the FT promotes a form of hardline, and deeply undemocratic monetarism. It's dangerous that some on the left have bought into Positive Money's ideas. The battle for money has begun. It is essential that it is won. Tax Research UKThe battle for money has begun Richard Murphy
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