Fed will cut rates this week. Other central banks cue up.
Read More »AYMAN M. MOHYELDIN – NO ONE IS SAFE: HOW SAUDI ARABIA MAKES DISSIDENTS DISAPPEAR
Critics of the Saudi regime seem to be dissappearing, but MBS is still getting the red carpet in the West.This article gives a climpse of how dangerous the world really is.The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state. In April, Iyad el-Baghdadi, an exiled Arab activist living in Oslo, was surprised when Norwegian security officials...
Read More »Turkey’s War In The West — Cyprus Is Now Surrounded By Drill-Ships And Warships; Cannon Ready To Fire At Europe – 150,000 People Per Month — John Helmer
Under cover of its Russian S-400 air defence batteries, and ignoring US and European sanctions, Turkey is going on the offensive at sea, surrounding Cyprus, and by land, launching a weapon against the European Union against which there is no defence: a Turkish cannon firing 150,000 people at Europe’s borders each month. They are the refugees from the wars the US and NATO launched in Iraq, Syria and Libya. A Russian analysis entitled “Turkey will open the door to Europe for millions of...
Read More »Quietly, Russia Is Inaugurating a New Economic Order to Transform Where Its Wealth Comes From — Chris Weafer
We are today half-way through the first year of the latest transition in Russia. In fact, this is the third major transition, or change of direction and priorities, sincethe emergence of modern Russia in 1991. This particular stage in the evolution is when, if handled correctly, Russia should start to see the emergence of a new economic order and the start of more sustainable and steady growth with lifestyle and social improvements to match. It is of course far too early to be able to say...
Read More »Lars P. Syll — Everything you want to now about MMT
Randy Wray video and Lars's comment about MMT's implications for the eurozone.Lars P. Syll’s BlogEverything you want to now about MMTLars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
Read More »Craig Murray – BBC cuts reporter after he mentions MI6 involvement in torture.
Take a look at this, fellas.To be fair, the reporter said afterwards that his phone was cutting out and Jo Coburn was in dismay about this. [embedded content]
Read More »Bill Mitchell — Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 2
This is the second and final part of my recent discussion on the what a Green New Deal requires. All manner of proposals seem to have become part of the GND. The problem is that many of these proposals sell the idea short and will fail to achieve what is really required – a massive transformation of society and the role the government plays within it. The imprecision is exacerbated by progressives who are afraid to go too far outside the neoliberal mould for fear of being shut out of the...
Read More »Mark Blyth – So can we have it all?
Mark Blyth severely criticises MMT at around the 24 minute mark. It lasts about 5 minutes. He says it could work for America but would mess up the rest of the world which needs dollars to buy oil. What do you think? [embedded content]
Read More »Rep Jim Jordan On FBI Spying On Americans and How Impotent The Muller Investigation Was
Muller is put on the spot by Jim Jordan. Watch him wriggle! He says how the Dems want to carry on investigating even after three years of finding nothing. But he has a better idea, why not investigate who started this conspiracy theory? [embedded content]
Read More »Finance, Class, and the Birth of Neoclassical Economics: The Marginalist Revolution Revisited — Yair Kaldor
Value theory in economics. Economic Sociology and Political Economy Finance, Class, and the Birth of Neoclassical Economics: The Marginalist Revolution Revisited Yair Kaldor | PhD candidate in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a member of Koah LaOvdim (“Power to the Workers”), an Israeli labor union.
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