Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three! If you haven’t already done the Quiz from yesterday then have a go at it…
Reading
Political philosopher Tim Dunlop's new book encourages electoral change beyond two-party politics to aid the much-need transformation of Australian democracy. read now...Michael Hudson levels on Europe. Finished.
Vineyard of the Saker
Michael Hudson gives an interview to a German magazine
This interview is also posted at Naked Capitalism
Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
Vineyard of the Saker
Michael Hudson gives an interview to a German magazine
Michael Hudson interviewed by German print magazine “Four”
Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
A record upswing in votes at the Federal Election in May for minor parties or Independents shows voters are abandoning the two-party system and the negatives that go with it. read now...
As Michael Hudson has been saying forever.
A dismal piece of Washington Post propaganda gearing up for a postwar, fully neoliberalized Ukraine leaves readers precisely where Jeff Bezos would want them, writes Patrick Lawrence.
But they are "our guys."
Consortium News
Patrick Lawrence
See also
Multipolarista
Ben Norton
John Maynard Keynes argued that the central bank influences the long-term interest rate through the effect of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. However, Keynes's claim was confined to the behavior of the long-term government bond yield.
When councils postpone LGBTQ+ events as soon as Neo-Nazis target them, it sends a message to queer people that they should hide from an increasingly visible far-Right. read now...This year I spent three months in Western Australia without the notebook I record my reading in, and never caught up again, so I’ve no idea whether I read ‘enough’ in the categories I intended to; nonfiction, fiction in translation, fiction in Irish and French. (I strongly suspect not, though.) I began recording books started/read […]
The separation of religion and government is a basic human right. The protests in Iran...
The results reveal that a visceral fear of encountering Musk is what drives eighty-nine per cent of those who follow his movements.
Torchwood star Eve Myles says "all is fine" between her and co-star John Barrowman, and offered a quick update on the reboot rumors.
There are two main types of coercion in the world.
The first is violence. If you don’t do what someone else wants, they will do something physical to you.
So, imagine if that was impossible. Imagine that if you chose no physical object could affect you. Bullets don’t work, fists don’t work, no one can grab you or put you in handcuffs, and that’s true of everyone.
What would change about society if this were true? What would change about how individuals act?
The second is need. What if you didn’t need to eat or drink and you cold and heat didn’t bother you or harm you and you didn’t get sick? You might still want shelter or a home or objects like books or computers, and objects like cosmetics would exist, but not medicine. But you would need nothing.
This is the tenth in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia. Their conclusions do not hold up to scrutiny, as we observe in our report Nickels Before Dimes. Here, we expand upon various claims and conclusions that Escobari and Hoover […]
The post Escobari and Hoover Make an Improper Comparison to 2016, Invalidating Their “Difference-in-Difference” Estimates appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
From the weekly Bienkov Briefing on Byline Supplement. The vast majority of those polled - 84% - back nurses' strike action for a bigger pay rise and trust striking rail workers over the Government