Mike Norman Economics

[embedded content] I'm a sort of liberal but I was really surprised by this. I expected Deeyah Khan to say how Muslims and Europeans can get along easily if we stop being prejudiced. I thought it would be a warm, nice lecture but I got a big surprise when it turned out to be the absolute opposite.Deeyah Khan has a Muslim father and a Norwegian mother and her father told her she that even as an academic the white people won't properly accept her so she would have to become a top musician or...

Progressive universalism versus targeting the poor and forgetting the struggling middle class and working poor — the precariat.EconospeakDivide and RulePeter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College

Since the end of the first Cold War and the collapse of the USSR the US has treated Russia with overbearing contempt and hostility. The Russians appealed to the US to be allowed a more open role in European affairs. The response was to drive the borders of NATO far to the east, to the borders of what is but a rump of the Russian Empire before WW1. The Russian response is to use what they see as a legitimate instrument of statecraft against us. This instrument seeks the weakening of...

[embedded content] The US perpetual war machine is a money making racket, says Bill Binney, an ex US intelligence official. Now they invent a new cold war with Russia because of the hacking scandal that never happened, which is supposed to be on par with Pearl Harbour, so they can swindle even more trillions out of the tax payer. These wars never seem to end, says, Bill Binney, as the Syrian war starts up again, and they will be able to drag the new cold war out for years making some...

Even Russian ex-pat Putin-phobe Masha Gessen gets the Mueller indictments essentially right.First politicized intelligence, then politicized justice.The New YorkerThe Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments Masha Gessen, staff writerSee also Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda The Guradian (March 17, 2011) Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain

Robert Neild was an associate of Wynne Godley in the Cambridge Economic Policy Group. Keeper Godley quote, too.The Case for Concerted ActionA Short Biography Of Robert NeildV. Ramanan

Under a "free market system" platforms become the curators of content and its flow because "business decisions are best left to the private sector." However, the dynamics of this market limit competition and the tendency is toward concentration. This leaves just a few at the top in the drivers seat. Content creation and distribution are increasingly being combined as major players go vertical. The result is growing market asymmetry.  Is this an issue that should be addressed politically...

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Steve keen tweeted this. So, Steve Keen is in with us on this one, and he reads the OffGuardian too. A great guy. KVImagine Izvestia ran a headline in January 2018 titled “Rescuing Donald”, in which it proudly boasted that a group of crack Russian election-fixers had been sent over to Washington to make sure Trump beat Hillary. Does anyone imagine it would stop short of impeachment for Trump and maybe even hot war with Russia? Yet 22 years ago Time magazine ran just such a feature on how...

From collusion to blowback Dr Nafeez Ahmed is a serious scholar and not a conspiracy theorist. He once worked for the UK Guardian but he started getting too close to the truth for them. He still sometimes writes for The Independent. KV  Except -  The terrorists who rampaged across London on the night of 3 June were part of a wider extremist network closely monitored by MI5 for decades. The same network was heavily involved in recruiting Britons to fight with jihadist groups in Syria,...