Mike Norman Economics

Qatar’s former prime minister has spoken out about how his country worked with Saudi Arabia and Turkey under the direction of the Obama Administration to funnel arms and money to jihadists in Syria. The explosive interview is a “public admission to collusion and coordination between four countries to destabilise an independent state, [including] possible support for Nusra/al-Qaeda,” by former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani. Al-Thani oversaw operations against Syria...

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German news. Will the US and UK new report it? Fort RussREVEALED: 2,500 German neo-nazi mercernaries fought in Ukraine conflictDer Spiegel Translated by J Flores

I think there are two separate issues here that depend on intent. "P-hacking" likely implies intent, and that is not necessarily a factor in all cases, and it may well not be in many if not most cases. In some cases there may be intent to persuade by playing loose, or even to deceive. I recall that How to Lie with Statistics was required reading in the Stat 101 course I took over fifty years ago. But this is not the only issue. As Richard Feynman famously observed, science is about...

I keep reading about how Iran has greatly increased its influence in the Middle East, but did it do it by winning wars or using its intelligence to install favorable regimes in other counties? No, it's been just sitting back and watching this to happen because the US and its allies have brought it on themselves .Behind only North Korea, Iran is the country the Trump administration vilifies most. The White House endorses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s injunction that “We must all...

Jimmy Dore says that the YouTube algorithms are making his show hard to find so he might need to find another platform. Well, when I put the internet address in Blogger to find this video it didn't come up so I had to put the title in to get it. This Jimmy Dore Show is a bit long at 45 minutes but it's a great look into the Russian hack conspiracy theory. The first ten minutes showing a clip of Rachael Maddow interviewing Richard Engel is definitely worth watching. [embedded content]

Wrong. Fake news has always been rampant in the media as propaganda. It even has a name. "Spin." And older than that is "yellow press."Take spin, for example. This occurs not only in the reporting of news but also in the commentary on. The distinction between actual news and commentary is also often blurred. Major media use selective reporting and spin to control the narrative. In many ways, this approach to subtle persuasion is more effective and insidious than obviously faked stories...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog in Washington, on Friday called a Senate Republican tax plan a “fatally flawed budget buster,” likening it to Republican legislation in the House of Representatives that the House tax committee has approved.... The Tax Foundation, another nonpartisan group, said the Senate plan would add $1.78 trillion to the deficit over a decade. It estimated that over the same time frame lower taxes would expand the U.S....

Peter Dorman considers when liberalism needs to become illiberal, e.g., squelching dissent based on freedom of thought and expression, in order to protect itself. The question is where to draw boundaries and on what basis.EconospeakFreedom of Speech for Fascists?Peter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College

Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute to preserve and defend human rights and civil liberties in a non-partisan way. He issues a stark warning to Americans. Unless we can learn to live together as brothers and sisters and fellow citizens, we will perish as tools and prisoners of the American police state. CounterpunchAmerica Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Psychosis John W. Whitehead | President, The Rutherford Institute