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The United States is not a model of a successful economy — it is a model of an economy in which only the rich thrive. The bottom 50% of the US population own just 1–2% of the country’s wealth. The US ranks lower in social mobility than almost all other OECD countries. There

Can't be overstated how pathetic it is to have your ultimate colonial fantasy just be a strip mall

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With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits from fossil fuel profits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.

Why Aliasdair MacIntyre should be important for economists.

Extraordinary photo, taken in Wallsend, Tyne & Wear by Ian Hobson. #Newcastle

Guileless honesty from Walsh. In my work I call this 'special liberty', a standard operationalised ultra-realist concept. Its roots are in monotheism and it's reproduced by the psychology of narcissistic individualism and the culture of ethnic supremacy.

My Venezuelan friend, Juan Göring-Hitler, assures me that his countrymen love Trump and are currently marching in the streets demanding a competetive tax rate that doesn't punish entrepreneurs

.@MikeTappTweets refuses to say that the US should not attack Denmark and Greenland. Moments later he declares that sticking to international law is what we stand for as a country.

Trump’s billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets. They control the AI you're asking for answers, the algorithms feeding you

Growing numbers of over-60s Britons facing homelessness. Low wages/benefits. State pension is low. No curbs on profiteering. Real cuts in council funding for years. Lack of social housing. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. https://t.co/QqWitYqZOr

Well, some of you might remember that, as a follow-up to my brief description of the suffocating disciplinary power we allow global money markets to impose on us, I promised to give you a few hints about how we might escape the grip of the 'bond market'. I got waylaid over

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Wow! Seems Gabriel Rockhill (whose very interesting book I have not yet read) has annoyed parts of the academic left which would rather cancel Rockhill than engage in any discussion about the role of western intelligence agencies in popular movements. Instructive.

An editor at prominent leftist publications—such as Verso, Historical Materialism, Jacobin—made the following public statement regarding his approach to publishing. 🤔

6,000 people could have their homes torn down as part of a £2.2bn project in which 1,266 council houses and 567 properties belonging to private homeowners could be repossessed in a mass compulsory purchase order for the area. “I own the freehold. I’ve put everything in here, this

We must understand what we're up against. I'll try my best to give you edited highlights of the post-WWII processes leading the UK to a position we might not be able to escape unless we revive serious politics over the next five years or so. After WWII, US plans to dominate

Twelve years ago @winlow_s and I published a book reviewers thought would be a classic. But it was too bleak - not a jeremiad but a stark account of the current reality in which we live and and an insistence that to understand it we must think in millennial terms. We claimed that

As Rumsfeld said: “It’s not our fault that God put America’s Oil under other people’s countries”…

1/ Ben Bernanke won a Nobel Prize after making possibly the biggest forecasting error in economic history. July 18, 2007: He tells Congress the economy will strengthen. August 9, 2007: The global financial crisis begins. This wasn't bad luck. This was economic theory working as