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In recent weeks the Delta variant of COVID-19 has spread rapidly through communities of unvaccinated…
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A few years ago, I wrote the piece titled “Boomers Must Take Some Blame And…
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The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early….
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Have you ever asked yourself, why are so many GOP political theories race and gender-based?…
We give a more progressive response to Biden's speech. TrustWomen founder Julie Burkhart discusses choice….
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I have heard Democrats touch trickle-down economics on the edges. But they always seem to…
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Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making…
This proposed “debate” between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should generate plenty of charitable pay-per-view…
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We’re now at that strange nexus where Brian Kilmeade’s attempt to pin Prince Phil’s death…
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“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the…
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MMT proponent Stephanie Kelton has a message for Biden. Katie Porter wants Biden to move…
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I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by…
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It is exceedingly disturbing that media outlets are playing the game of ‘Where’s QAnon,’ searching…
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Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: .@JohnFetterman announces he raised $3.9 million in…
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Who knew, Big Tech is corporate communism, which may explain why there should be a…
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Remember Infrastructure Week? It’s coming back—this time without an infrastructure weakling deflating the promise of…
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Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a…
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So much dodging bullets these past months, but so many tradeoffs. What remains is that…
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On this panel, Paul Krugman gets it right as Larry Summers continues his attack on…
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Nancy Pelosi, Tim Ryan, and other Democrats put Republicans on notice. Cindy Couyoumjian, a financial…
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The country needs to take a second look at the meaning of radical and change….
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I still remember when Donald Trump got up in front of a throng of masochistic…
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Texas PUC admits ripping off Texans during Electric Grid freeze and all but tells them to suck it up
The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) overcharged Texans, indirectly through power companies, by over $16…
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Before 1937, inaugural day wasn’t until March 4. Back in the day we would’ve been…
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Ron Johnson and a core number of GOP senators does the bidding of Russia for…
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The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the…
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GOP Sen. says COVID relief bill's a Trojan Horse. [LOL] Who always has to clean up their mess again?
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy appeared on a gaslighting mission claiming the COVID Relief bill is…
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Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse…
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Will Texas electric grid catastrophe end post-Reagan failed economics? I don't like Krugman's answer
We must make the Texas Catastrophe the nail-in-the-coffin for post-Reagan failed economics. Economist Paul Krugman…
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No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of…
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I’ve always admired Naomi Klein since reading her terrific and insightful book “The Shock Doctrine: The…
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Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many…
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Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the…
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Ali Velshi made it clear. Private prisons are a perverse incentive. The same applies to healthcare….
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may…
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The Wall Street Bets on Reddit move on GameStop has proven that the stock market…
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This morning in his latest batch of rescinded Executive Orders issued by his predecessor, President…
The modern slave trade. Forced Labour : 25,000,000 Sexually exploited: 4,800,000 [99% women] State sponsored:…
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Political Analyst Atiba Madyun discusses insurrection. Thomas Friedman’s recipe for Democrats wrong.
You want to hear Political Analyst Atiba Madyun on the seditious insurrection on the Capitol….
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M-i-c-k-e-y, Why because we like it. M-M-MMT. “We collectively decide just what counts as a…
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Happy New Year Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to…
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment….
Dr. Dean Baker sheds important light on the COVID-19 vaccine economics. Fox News backtrack voter…
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Crimes against humanity by needless deaths, because sending Americans a check with his name on…
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Can enraging Georgia voters about a lost election actually spur GOP turnout in Georgia. The…
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Trump's recession has a greater jobs deficit than at worst point of all previous postwar recessions.
Thankfully the new administration will steer the economy to a place quite unlike the disaster…
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie…
I try to keep out of American politics as I have been an expat for…
Trump’s now doing shtick at his virus-fests, focusing on grievance and culture-war nonsense, nearly promising…
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Industry concentration and monopolization have become boring and technical so the exploitation of labor now gets…
