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. […]
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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 […]
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 10, 2025 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals UNLOCKED: The Epstein/Trump/Israel Connection Unpacked (w/ Whitney Webb) (YouTube Video) Briahna Joy Gray interviews Whitney Webb, July 30, 2025 [Bad Faith podcast] [TW: Webb does an extraordinary job detailing the organized crime backgrounds of Trump and […]
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