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Putin the salesman NOTE: An update-related laptop crash kept me from posting this while on the road on Sunday. Two hours of Windows reset and some rebuilding later, it’s fixed. When health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter spoke here (pre-pandemic), someone asked about those ubiquitous Medicare advantage TV ads. Stay away, Potter advised. Sure, they make the plans sound good, Potter said. They know what you’ll buy. So does former KGB agent Vladimir Putin. The Russian dictator is selling. The American right is buying, and some on the left too. If Putin sounds as if he’s running for president in 2024, that’s no accident, writes E.J. Dionne: “Look at what they’ve done to their own people,” he said of us Westerners. “They’re destroying family, national identity, they are abusing their children. Even pedophilia is announced as a normal thing in the West.” Never mind that Russia is a world leader in sex trafficking. Putin didn’t stop there.
Will the RW pause its transgender freakout and book banning? The Department of Energy has a special announcement. Well, it’s not that special, really. It’s another “low confidence” finding not unlike the Cochrane mask study that Bret Stephens hyped last week in the New York Times. In a classified report, the DOE finds based on new intelligence that there is a low probability that COVID-19 originated from an accidental lab leak in China. Then come the caveats (New York Times): Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence,” suggesting its level of certainty was not high. While the department shared the information with other agencies, none of them changed their conclusions, officials said. Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan would not confirm the intelligence, telling CNN on Sunday “there is no definitive answer” the the origin of the pandemic. The 18 services in the intelligence community have differing assessments. In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I.
Environmental protesters are forbidden to explain their motivations to juries, making a mockery of justice. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd February 2023 To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do […]
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My time is very important, and therefore when I am choosing a TV show to watch, I need to know that it will make me feel more depressed than I have ever been. In fact, I want it to make me feel so bad that I see hell itself.
Prestige TV shows are my unique way of momentarily escaping from the harsh realities of this world, and when I escape, well, frankly, I like to feel even worse. I want to be very, very upset, to the point where not only am I watching a sudden and very jarring scene of a television show involving something horrific happening to a character I have grown fond of, but also I can clearly see hell, the actual place, with my eyes.
Listen to me: I want to feel terrible—and not just regular terrible—but more terrible than I have ever felt before, even though this is a “fictional situation” that “has nothing to do with me.” Because if a show is any good, it’ll make me feel like it’s happening to me, inside my body. Just how I like it.
When my dad grew up in Luton in the 1970s, many of the roads I walk through today were a no-go for British Pakistanis. They were places where racist attacks were commonplace, and it was only sustained campaigning by an older generation that turned them around. Sadly, however, that fight endured. When I was eleven […]
A controversial parliamentary group failed to disclose its list of 'active members' among other potential breaches, Josiah Mortimer reports
Politically motivated consumer boycotts have played a central role throughout U.S. history.
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Contrary to what many have claimed, wage growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 was actually in line with what a standard Phillips curve model predicts.
With the police ever better funded (just as the U.S. military is), war has come home to roost in our streets, no less disastrously than it did abroad in the years of this country’s war on terror.
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By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran. The world is becoming increasingly split between two groups of governments who are becoming […]
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New research has found that non-consensual sharing of intimate images bear many of the hallmarks of domestic abuse
The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year.
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RADHIKA DESAI: Hello everyone. Welcome to the fourth Geopolitical Economy Hour, our fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Today we are continuing our discussion of de-dollarization. As many of you know we have structured our discussion around some Continue Reading
The post Trade Theory: No Room for Gunboats first appeared on Michael Hudson.An update on Uber financial fakery and continued lack of bona fide profits.
A year after the Russian invasion, Manasa Narayanan reports on the 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme and the challenges still being faced by hosts and refugees alike
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on immigrant employment, but it recovered to pre-pandemic levels by 2021.
Football’s unique place in people’s lives and communities means we have to sort out mismanagement of the clubs we love, reports Shamik Das
Britain is now a land in which a Tory away day is seen as the panacea to years of abject government failure, writes Iain Overton