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THE 2026 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR HAS ARRIVED! It’s 2026, and the Social Justice Kittens are back with twelve inspiring new months, each one a stern, colorful reminder that while you enjoy a life of unearned, privileged comfort, their battle for justice never ends! Despite their advanced empathic skills, evolved intellects and permanent stance on…

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We tend to think of prejudice in negative terms, but there are positive prejudices as well. I was just telling a friend that I’d trust a random Sikh more than any other religion/ethnicity. Just seem to have a very high proportion of good people. Also think well of the diaspora Chinese, as a rule, perhaps […]

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why does the Trump regime want to disappear unaccompanied children? Heather Cox Richardson, September 2, 2025 [Letters from an American] In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, […]

A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.

The post Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians appeared first on The Intercept.

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by Tony Wikrent Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon David Pilling and Heba Saleh in Cairo, August 25 2025 [Financial Times, via Funding the Future] For decades, the number of people dying from famine was in retreat, reduced to almost nothing by a world intolerant of witnessing people starving to death. […]

Since 1976, when Mao died and Deng Xiaoping took over, China has lifted more people out of poverty than all other nations combined throughout the entirety of human history.

Episode 3 in the third season of our Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) manga – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – produced by MMTed is now available (August 29, 2025). The Smith Family is a middle-class family living in a city somewhere in the world. The second-generation parents are university educated and have…

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 24, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Neoliberalism is not a viable option Richard Murphy, August 22  2025 [Funding the Future] … a fascinating blog post by someone called Blair Fix. He analysed fascism in what seems like an entirely original way, showing that its roots are, in effect, in mediaeval theocracy, […]

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 17, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Pentagon […]