So, this weekend there was a leak of a possible peace deal. Iran got most of what it wanted in this hypothetical deal. Israel said “we won’t obey any truce in Lebanon” and, well, that’s probably the end of it, though we’ll see. I considered writing about it over the weekend, but so far every […]
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The UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 revealed that Sweden — once a global beacon of equality — has now fallen to the far less enviable position of sixth place among the world’s most unequal countries in terms of wealth. How could things have gone so wrong for a country that, not so long ago, was seen […]
This is the third in the series: 1) Freedom Under Capitalism 2) Freedom Under Representative Democracy Scholars often divide freedom into two types: negative and positive. Negative freedom is “freedom from”. From arbitrary search and self incrimination, for example. Freedom from is primarily about what other people, including the government, cannot do to you. Positive […]
Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th May 2026 The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves. He gave £3.2m to the leave campaign. He justified his enthusiasm as follows: “We will get out there […]
In its defeat at an international tribunal, the OPCW has acknowledged that it shunned an inspector who challenged the Douma chemical cover-up. OPCW whistleblower Dr. Brendan Whelan details the closing chapter of his bid for justice. The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine, they say. A recent ruling from the Geneva-based Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT) ordered my former employer the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to reverse its decision to sanction […]
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 24, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers and spending hundreds to learn how to do it Jennifer Liu, May 17 2026 [CNBC, via DailyKos] …A record number of Americans are leaving the U.S.: The country saw a net negative migration of […]
The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn’t raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar – and falsely claims that “scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.” In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted […]
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Every society is three meals from chaos -Vladimir Lenin On May 4th I wrote that a year of hunger and famine is baked in for most of the world. This was based on the effects of Six Week War and the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But, in addition, we have the strongest […]
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Inflation peaked back in June 2022, only three months after the Fed started hiking interest rates. At that time, the Fed’s policy rate had risen just 75 basis points, and no one knew how much higher it might go. In fact, we have no evidence that monetary policy had any significant effect on the course taken by prices — […]
The Lever uncovered an ICE contractor’s phantom clients, dubious claims, and disappearing executives. Now Congress is stepping in.
Buried in Congress’s massive transportation bill is a provision pushed by the autonomous trucking industry to override state safety rules for driverless commercial vehicles.
The levying of taxes concerns not just one principle but the principle underlying the authority of the national state. This right to levy taxes is linked to the supervision of economic activities within a certain territory, but it is becoming an ever more fictitious basis as the scope increases for operations at the level of […]
A “party within the party” is forcing its corporate-aligned agenda on voters — and spending millions to crush populist Democrats in districts that will likely decide control of Congress.
In the first article in this series we discussed freedom under capitalism. The conclusion was simple: capitalist freedom for the vast majority of the population means the right to choose your master, your job, if you can find one. Once you have a master, you do what they say for most of the day, for […]
Outside spending in the priciest House primary in U.S. history helped oust Rep. Thomas Massie, one of Trump’s most prominent GOP critics.
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures
