More discussion of the current, misguided central bank use of interest rates to combat inflation, and what will probably become stagflation.
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At the end of last year, asset management firm BlackRock broke a new record: it surpassed $10 trillion in the assets it manages. To put that sum in context, it’s larger than the pre-pandemic GDP of Germany and Japan combined. Yet BlackRock isn’t the only behemoth asset manager in operation today. They’re followed closely by […]
In his book, Fascism: Theory and History, lawyer and historian David Renton outlined what he called “the anti-fascist wager.” It was a gamble the German left made against Hitler, the extent to which the social democratic (SPD) and communist (KPD) parties accurately perceived the uniquely dangerous threat the Nazi’s posed. This is like the gamble we make within settler Amerikkka against resurgent fascism today. Lives hang in the balance, which is why we start with the above quote from an April 2020 interview Noam Chomsky did with Medhi Hasan, who was then still at The Intercept.
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Repairs to storm-damaged loading terminals could cut up to 1mn b/d of shipments through CPC network
From the forests of the Congo, to the salt flats of Chile, to the hills of central Idaho — the struggle for control of the minerals of the future heats up By Sean Case The mainstream US press does a …
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“Instead of hitting the brakes on the decarbonization of the global economy” amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, “now is the time to put the pedal to the metal towards a renewable energy future,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
In yet another assault on dissenting political views in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a ban on the activities of major opposition political parties in the country after alleging that they have links with Russia. He also announced the merger of all TV channels in the country in the name of implementing a “unified information policy”, thus creating a government monopoly over the medium.
Citing the need to maintain the unity of the country, Zelensky claimed in a statement that “the National Security and Defense Council decided, given the full-scale war unleashed by Russia and the political ties that a number of political structures have with this state, to suspend any activity of a number of political parties for the period of martial law.”
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“I get threatening messages from people saying they are watching me,” said a now-resigned public health official
“With everything going on in the world right now, the dual polar climate disasters of 2022 should be the top stor
“The beautiful symmetry that we see everywhere is primed to appear,” one scientist told Salon