Archive | December, 2022

Yves here. There have been a lot of suggestions about how to improve the Biden student debt forgiveness plan.

Jacques Baud (JB): The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction. I wrote it under the motto “from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.”

WHERE DO AMERICA’S MASS SHOOTERS COME FROM??–It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them.

Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.

ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.

Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”

Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies. 

Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?

In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”

Frederic Heine joins Money on the Left to discuss his recent essay, “Performing Hard Money: Monetary Policy, Metaphor and Masculinity in the Making of EMU,” published this summer in the Journal of Cultural Economy. In his essay, Heine analyzes the cluster of masculine metaphors that ground  and mobilize the European Monetary Union’s hard-line opposition to soft money politics.

Marx’s Capital ​after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism.

Journalist Daria Dugina was killed in Russia on Saturday night.

President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

GOP war hawks slam Biden initiative for “undermining” Pentagon efforts to prey on desperate young people.

The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.