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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

McKinsey The risks and challenges of the global COVID-19-vaccine rollout

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The scale is global. This requires a systems approach, which McKinsey is famous for. McKinsey The risks and challenges of the global COVID-1...
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Biden directs DOJ to phase out use of private prisons — Rebecca Beitsch

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The executive order, signed alongside three others as part of an effort to address racial inequality, largely returns the department to the ...
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Tony Kevin - The war against China is largely facilitated by propaganda.

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 I was looking for something about US propaganda against China on twitter, and page after page nothing turned up, so I went to Duck and Go a...
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UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas: ‘This is How the Human Rights Industry Works’ Geraldina Colotti interviews — Alfred de Zayas

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Revealing. Venezuelanalysis UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas: ‘This is How the Human Rights Industry Works’ Geraldina Colotti interview...

Yield Curve Slope Correlations — Brian Romanchuk

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When looking at bond yields, one should keep in mind that the entire yield curve is a mathematical object. A venerable research approach is ...

Oligarchy In Russia – Alexei Navalny’s Telling Mistake — John Helmer

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Should-read. A bit longish but essential in understanding the dynamic. Requires some familiarity with the situation for full appreciation, b...
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Sputnik — Is Bellingcat Played by the CIA?

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Does anyone seriously think that Bellingcat is not a front? MI6 not mentioned? Sputnik International Is Bellingcat Played by the CIA?

RT — After Rupert Murdoch slams ‘woke orthodoxy’ & social media censorship, critics lambast tycoon’s own ‘malign influence’

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Among the outlets in his media empire are the American Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the Fox News channel, as well as the UK’s ...

Sputnik — India Stunned as Protesters Hoist Their Flag at Iconic Red Fort

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US Capitol protest catching? Sputnik International India Stunned as Protesters Hoist Their Flag at Iconic Red Fort Violence, Death & Inv...
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Peoples Dispatch — US federal agency launches probe into alleged bid by Trump to undermine election results

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More shoes dropping. The probe by the Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Justice comes in light of a report that Trump ...
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Sputnik — The Task: China Must Rally 'Whole Country' to Defeat US 'Technology Blockade', Top CCP Official Says

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Building national self-sufficiency for the dragon to escape the eagles talons (economic sanctions) without the need to breath fire (go to wa...

Michael Shermer - Is Life After Death Possible

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Some interesting politics here: extremism is the problem. And I never thought of religion as a powerful way of cementing a group. It's t...
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Truth After Trump — Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is on to something here, but he could not do it justice in 500 words. But the BS factor in political persuasion is worth th...
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Michael Hudson — Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial Capitalism – The Rentier Resurgence and Takeover

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Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy ...
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Bill Mitchell — It is a syndemic not a pandemic – broader policies are needed

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There was an article in The Lancet from its editor (September 26, 2020) – Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic – which questioned the “narro...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Major Chinese cities plan large-scale tests of digital currency in 2021 — Global Times

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Industry observers said that these plans by China's first-tier cities send a clear signal that DCEP will be subject to large-scale testi...
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UN agency reports China surpassed US in foreign direct investments in 2020 — Justine Coleman

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The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) concluded that China became the largest FDI receiver last year over the U.S., with flo...
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Pentagon Report Points to Two Major Risks to National Security: Consolidation and Shareholder Capitalism — Asher Schechter

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A Pentagon report released earlier this month warns that concentrated supply chains, offshoring, and a “business climate that has favored sh...
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Lars P. Syll — Mainstream economics — a waste of time on a staggering scale

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Why models fail. As a philosophy professor, I taught logic and critical thinking as part of the introductory course. This involved a cursory...
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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Bill Mitchell — IMF actions in Ecuador expose its venal motivations

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There is clearly confusion among mainstream economists as the fractures in their paradigm are being revealed on an almost daily basis. And t...
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The Kremlins Aren't Falling - But Relations with the US Are — Anatoly Karlin

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Update on the "color revolution" in Russia. (Not.) The Unz Review The Kremlins Aren't Falling - But Relations with the US Are...

Four Ways Biden Can Boost the Global Economy — Jayati Ghosh

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The US is nowhere near as economically dominant as it was even a decade ago. Yet President-elect Joe Biden can take several relatively simpl...
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Slouching Toward Post-Journalism — Martin Gurri

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The New York Times and other elite media outlets have openly embraced advocacy over reporting.... The opposite of censorship, which amounts ...
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Sputnik — CFR Says Trump Was Right to Press China on Trade, Urges Biden to Do the Same in Concert With Allies

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Confronting China is easier said than done. That vessel has already put to sea. The problem is that no one knows just what to do that could ...
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Sputnik — Russian Space Chief Banned on Facebook Over Online Spat With Former US Envoy

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Censorship watch. Facebook has banned Dmitry Rogozin's account after the head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency wrote a post critic...
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The One Big Problem With A Central Asian Energy Corridor — Alan Mammoser

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Update on Pipelinestan, here largely natural gas. It's all about controlling territory and both stocks and flows of resources with some ...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

I Wouldn't Even Post About It. — Andrei Martyanov

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 The color revolution in Russia and maidan in Moscow that wasn't. Reminiscence of the Future I Wouldn't Even Post About It. Andrei M...
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Zero Hedge — Taiwan Reports 13 Incursions By Chinese Air Force In One Day

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Upping the ante. Zero Hedge Taiwan Reports 13 Incursions By Chinese Air Force In One Day Tyler Durden
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Corporate Media’s Leaked Chinese Documents Confirm China Didn’t Hide Covid-19 — Joshua Cho

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Weekend reading. Longish and detailed. FAIR — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Corporate Media’s Leaked Chinese Documents Confirm China D...
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World Economic Forum — Who’s who at Davos Agenda Week 2021

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More than 2,000 leaders will join the virtual Davos Agenda under the theme of "A Crucial Year to Rebuild Trust” from 25 - 29 January. T...
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