The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
Not surprisingly, the Cheney funeral confirmed a great deal about true loyalties in the political and media elite.
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‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
A much needed, detailed debunking of Trump’s claim that Thanksgiving meal costs, and by implicaiton inflation, are declining.
Read more...Sanders Denounces Trump-GOP Healthcare Proposal as ‘Absurd’—and Deadly
How Trump’s new healthcare gimmick would lead to more medical bankruptcies, more unaffordable care, and more Americans dying unnecessarily.
Read more...Yet Another Dead-on-Arrival Ukraine Peace Scheme: Leaked 28 Point Plan Predictably Unable to Reconcile Irreconcilable Positions
Trump keeps trying to “peace deal” his way out of losing Ukraine. Na ga happen.
Read more...Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
An overview of recent progress with the gene-editing CRISPR technology, its promise and risks.
Read more...A War Against Children? ADHD Drugs Become DeFacto Gateway for Many to Multi-Medication “Treatments” Despite Dearth of Clinical Evidence for Use
The Wall Street Journal tells a sobering and well documented story of how ADHD Rxs in the young often lead to even more drug administration.
Read more...Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?
Russia and China did not veto a Gaza-colonizing UN resolution, which says much about where multipolarity is turning out to be.
Read more...“Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”
AI overlords seek to be better able to loot than banks: too big to fail yet unregulated. Call your Congresscritters to stop that.
Read more...Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
An overview of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth explains the core findings of MMT. and how debt hysteria serves the rich, not the public.
Read more...Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing, Challenges Mamdani
Landlords of affordable apartments say the numbers increasingly don’t add up — and a rent freeze will work against tenants.
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“European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
Citizens in EU states have been rebelling against social program cuts, like pension reforms. Are changes in the retirement age necessary?
Read more...Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
As Helmer said by e-mail, “The Trump formula is retreat=negotiations plus covert operations.”
Read more...Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
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