Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Last discusses how the U.S. economy is coming apart under a regime which is attacking progress and security in any form. Matt Johnson…
Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Last discusses how the U.S. economy is coming apart under a regime which is attacking progress and security in any form. Matt Johnson…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Krugman discusses Donald Trump's mission of making cruelty and bigotry into default positions in American culture. And Jamelle Bouie comments on the…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Last discusses how many of the harms being inflicted by the Trump regime can never fully be repaired, while Anne Applebaum writes about…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer discusses how the Trump regime is attacking concept of treating people as equals, while Greg Sargent highlights Stephen Miller's role in trying…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jonathan Last discusses how the Trump regime is carrying out campaigns of murder based on known lies with both the purpose and…
If American current events were a dystopian TV series we would all be saying this is over the top, no one can be this diabolically cruel and evil and dementedly…
Assorted content to end your week.- Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman discuss the neo-royalism emerging as the Trump regime tries to turn the enrichment of a self-proclaimed god-king into a…
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…
False flag warning as Europe and the West face economic and political collapse: What is rapidly escalating and accelerating, and rapidly coming to a climax, is a confluence of crises…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Coyne recognizes that there's no point in pretending that trade negotiations with the U.S. under the control of a mad king can…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonn Elledge discusses how the right in the UK (like in the U.S. and Canada) is building its public messaging around explicit racism and…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Don Moynihan discusses how the systematic erosion of American democracy includes the elimination of the belief among Republicans that the public service should…
It used to be considered banana republic realms when the debt to GDP ratio of a nation exceeded 60%. Today, the Western nations are running at 100-140% debt to GDP.…
(An open letter to Hrvoje Moric, at Geopolitics & Empire) Excellent discussion, as always, Hrvoje. After four decades and over 100,000 hours of research, studies and writing on geopolitics, political…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simone Zhenting Mao discusses how inequality and concentration of wealth are at the root of Canada's economic stagnation. And Robert P. Beschel Jr.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer writes about the importance of drawing principled lines as to what's compatible with democracy rather than presuming that whatever's currently happening must…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William Davies writes about the systematic stupidity being imposed by the Trump regime, while Noah Berlatsky notes that it's a feature rather than…
For those who are not sure yet, the US is deep in a fascist state of existence. I have my doubts that they’ll ever get out of it. #Felon47 has…