Rage Against the ICE Machine
Anti-ICE protestors are showing signs of developing effective strategies and tactics.
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Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?
Big companies are cutting white collar jobs, because AI, and warn more is to come. What does this mean for the economy and social stability?
Read more...The Stage Is Set For a US-Instigated Security Dilemma Between the Eurasian Rimland & Heartland
The US and its major European and Asian allies have embarked on a Eurasia contaiment strategy. What are its prospects?
Read more...Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt
More wanton Trump Administration immiseration of the non-rich, here by blocking state efforts to bar credit reporting of medical debt.
Read more...How Tariffs Hurt the Ones You Love
Investors believe that companies and industries in “red” areas will be hit harder by tariff blowback than those in “bluer” regions.
Read more...Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World
Data centers’ rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.
Read more...Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
A look at some of the newest greenwashing phrases being road tested at COP30. The worst is many will go down easily.
Read more...Links 10/25/2025
Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020.
Read more...Economic Questions: The E F Schumacher Question
E F Schumacher of Small Is Beautiful, appeared influential in his heyday, yet his precepts seem not to have gotten a durable following. Why?
Read more...Exposing the Hidden US History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
Political slugfests and current controversies show how flattering tales from US history undermine the pursuit of its citizens’ interests.
Read more...Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
The Democrats as a and even the reason US policies are so contrary to the interests of most of the public.
Read more...Links 10/23/2025
AI Is Coming For Your Doctor
Medical systems using Epic are planning to turn most patient care decisions over to AI.
Read more...Commodities: Why They Are a Challenge for Investors
Uncertainty is pushing investors to consider commodities but playing them is not as easy as you think!
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