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Production as the basis of economics.  Reminiscence of the FutureThe Technology Of SacrificeAndrei Martyanov, expert on military science especially naval and aerospace. Martyanov was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where...

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The headline is a lit of an overstatement but the post still interesting politically and demographically. The poll was conducted by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, which in partnership with Project Home Fire think tank analyzed online responses to over 300 questions encompassing social, political, and psychological themes from more than a thousand political opponents from each camp.According to the poll, over half of all ex-President Donald Trump supporters "somewhat agree"...

Another righteous rant. Caitlin Johnstone is on a roll.CaitlinJohnstone.comThe Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone

 Okay.…Sputnik InternationalTaking It to the Next Level: El Salvador Starts Mining Bitcoin by Using Volcano

Short Keynes quote.The Case for Concerted ActionJohn Maynard Keynes On Import ControlsV. Ramanan

Important. Here is the beginning of a debate over MMT and Marx, if Bill (and perhaps other MMT economists) take up the challenge. But I think Bill is much more acquainted with Marx than other MMT economists — excepting Peter Cooper, of course, but I am not sure how he would characterize himself. Hopefully, Peter will join in the debate at his blog (heteconomist.com), which is the premier site treating MMT and Marx.There are a lot of details in the post and I would like to hear an exchange...

‘Influencing’ Government Vaccine Advisory PanelThe AntiVaxxers are everywhere, even high up in the British government. A look at the antivax, right-wing, groups who have infiltrated some British government bodies, and the government itself. A Government advisor who sat on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which in September recommended not giving vaccines to children aged 12-15 years old, appears to be secretly linked with organisations that operate as part of a...

Françoise Drumetz and Christian Pfister have enlivened us with a new Banque de France working paper “The Meaning of MMT.” I have read a lot of critiques of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) over the years, and summarised what I saw as the reasonable critiques in a chapter in my latest book, “Modern Monetary Theory and the Recovery.” The Drumetz and Pfister article is somewhat novel in its approach when compared to the fairly dismal track record of earlier neoclassical critiques, but the...