I have not C & Ped enough of these recitals of present-day history in the making for AB readers to keep up with the House Committee meeting as recited by Prof. Heather. An in-committee vote will be taken to confirm whether a recommendation to prosecute former president trump will be made to the DOJ. My guess is the vote to do so will be unanimous. The committee has gone through great lengths to examine the detail leading up to the attack on...

Η ομιλία του Γραμματέα του ΜέΡΑ25, Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη, στη Βουλή για τον Προϋπολισμό του 2023. #greece #varoufakis #yanis #mera25_gr #μέρα25 #politics...

Commenter Arne asked how we would transition from today’s healthcare system to a Single Payer format. I do not have the answer immediately at hand. I have to look for it. I do want to review what we have learned to date and stated on Angry Bear already. I do have a number of posts of the costs of healthcare. This one I like as it is simple and gets the point across on Drug Costs. I recently did a post of Pharma pricing which I will conclude with...

Publications NEF review of the year 2022 Highlights from the last 12 months 19 December 2022 Download the review It’s been a difficult year for most of us, with bills skyrocketing, public services crumbling and the impacts of climate breakdown...

Ο Γραμματέας του ΜέΡΑ25 Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης στο Δημοτικό Ραδιόφωνο Θεσσαλονίκης FM100 για Καταρ-gate,...

Yanis Varoufakis served as Greece’s Finance Minister during the first six months of 2015. In this interview recorded 9 June 2022 he discusses Europe, the war in Ukraine, techno-feudalism as well as challenges ahead. Varoufakis read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Texas and Athens where he still holds a Chair in Political Economy and Economic Theory....

The Former Minister of Finance of Greece speaks with Serge Michel, editorial director of Geneva Solutions at the Global Investment Forum in Geneva, Switzerland (9 June 2022): a financial look the western world after two years of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, repercussions of the 2008 crisis, notion of consensus in the European Union, opportunities in private investments, the role of public money towards a green energy union, averting a new cold war between the USA and China, and averting...

Interview with Thomas Piketty on his career and the history of equality

In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un and his generals must have weighed retaliation and asked themselves whether the so-called independent hacker was a front for a planned and official American attack.In 2023, the world might not get so lucky. There will almost certainly be a major cyberattack. It could shut down Taiwan’s airports and trains, paralyze...