Thursday, April 13, 2023

Links — 13 April 2023

NIH — PubMed
Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States
Anna Zeira

CNBC
With inflation stubbornly high, 58% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck: CNBC survey
Jessica Dickler

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
White House says racism cost US $16 trillion since 2000 [Susan Rice citing Citi report]

Global Inequality
The chronicle of the revolutions foretold? [Important. Should-read. Summarizes the work of Peter Turchin.]
Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality, senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Countercurrents 
A review of “White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams [backgrounder on Western colonization of the Third World and the rise of the American Empire that is now underatack by decolonization as a foundation of multipolarism]
Kim Scipes, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Westville, Indiana

Tricontinental
Life or Debt: The Stranglehold of Neocolonialism and Africa’s Search for Alternatives [The current state of neo-imperialism and  neocolonialism in Africa]

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Putin warrant could derail BRICS summit – South Africa [Wake up call for the Global South/East]

Global South
Massacres in US History— Review of A Long History of America’s Dark Side by Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry [imperialism and colonialism under the guise of spreading "freedom and democracy."
Larry Romanoff

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
The ‘dry residue’ from Macron’s visit to China [French geoeconomics and geopolitics]
Gilbert Doctorow

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
[John] Bolton touts ‘grand strategy’ to counter Russia and China ["the West should cut back on social programs to fund military spending, renew testing of nuclear weapons, and provide security guarantees to Taiwan."]

New York Post
Joe Biden boosted Ukraine gas industry as Hunter took Burisma role ["Then-Vice President Joe Biden visited Ukraine on a mission to bolster the country’s energy industry days after his son Hunter joined the board of natural gas company Burisma in 2014 — which a former White House stenographer claims implicates the now-80-year-old in a foreign influence-peddling “'kickback scheme'.”]
Stephen Nelson

The Gateway Pundit
Seymour Hersh Reports that Ukrainian Leader Zelensky Embezzled $400 Million from US Payments Allocated for Fuel
Joe Holt

Seymour Hersh Substack
Seymour Hersh

BAiGUAN

2 comments:

Peter Pan said...

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics
By Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by The Tyee

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-04-10/the-rising-chorus-of-renewable-energy-skeptics/

Peter Pan said...

The average North American citizen not only consumes 1.3 million kilograms of minerals, metals and fuels in their lifetime but has no idea where they come from or at what cost.

Another statement illustrating the absurdity of economics.