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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Giorgio Cafiero and Elaine Miao — Libya’s Role in the Polarized Sunni World

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Backgrounder. MENA is much more complicated than it portrayed in the West. The reasons that the West is there at all are oil and gas, and ...
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bne IntelliNews — Russia Starts Working on Blockchain Standardization

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Russia’s Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) appointed a new technical committee to work on the standardiza...

TeleSUR — Iraq Bans US from Using Territory to Launch War Against Iran

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi has said that if the United States intends to carry out an aggression against the Iranian government, ...
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Andrew Korybko — 21st-Century Geopolitics of Central America: Local Characteristics and Integration Models

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The research has now progressed to outlining the prevailing characteristics of Central America and listing the relevant regional integration...

Samer Hussein — Google Losing its Market to Yandex in Russia

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Fort Russ Google Losing its Market to Yandex in Russia Samer Hussein
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Xinhua — China on rapid progress of robotization: study

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China bought 90,000 robots in 2016, accounting for almost a third of the global total, and the robot revolution may raise China's econo...
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RT — Netanyahu to Putin: Iran must withdraw from Syria or Israel will ‘defend itself’

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel is prepared to intervene in Syria to counteract the I...
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telesur — US Vice President Meets Venezuelan Opposition and Promises More Sanctions

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been in Florida to meet Venezuelan opposition leaders, capping off his tour of Latin America last week w...
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Chris Williams — Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics

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Chris Williams reviews Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique  by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, Haymarket Books, 2017.... As shown ...

Bloomberg — Big U.S. banks could see profit jump 20% with deregulation

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The deregulation winds blowing through Washington could add $27 billion of gross profit at the six largest U.S. banks, lifting their annual...
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Bill Mitchell — The divide-and-conquer strategy of the CIA in France 1985-style

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A good friend sent me a document that was released under the US Central Intelligence Agency’s rules about archives. The CIA has established...

Robert Coalson — Is Putin 'Rebuilding Russia' According To Solzhenitsyn's Design?

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Russia-watcher Miriam Elder noted in a piece on BuzzFeed that Putin's response and other statements he has made about Ukraine in the p...
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Edward Harrison — The failure of the Trump presidency

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In sum, while Donald Trump, the cultural warrior, is failing as President on the economic front, not helping get us to the 3 or 4% growth h...
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Pam and Russ Martens — Three Critical Steps to Making America Great Again Are Not on Trump’s Agenda

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M&A rather than IPOs, stock buybacks. Primary investment is lagging. The environment for investment must be addressed. Deregulation fo...

Paul Antonopoulos — Russia is certain the US will meddle in forthcoming presidential elections: Deputy FM

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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Chinese and Japanese media in an interview that Moscow is certain the United States will attemp...
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Diane Coyle — Property is – theft?

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Buying versus renting. Is buying over in the drive for rent-seeking? The Enlightened Economist Property is – theft? Diane Coyle | freelan...

Ryan Browne — Estonia wants to launch its own government-backed cryptocurrency called 'estcoin'

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Estonia has proposed to launch its own state-backed cryptocurrency, called "estcoin". Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin apparent...
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Chris Dillow — A new capital?

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What does capital do in the digital economy? For one thing it applies the mass market. The huge asymmetry in income is lat least in part ...

Pedro Nicolaci da Costa — Fed rebel warns businesses to stop 'whining' about a shortage of workers

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It’s an all-too common refrain among US corporations: we have jobs available, but simply can’t find qualified workers to fill them. Econo...
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Bill Mitchell — Central banks still funding government deficits and the sky remains firmly above

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There was an article in the Financial Times last week (August 16, 2017) – Central banks hold a fifth of their governments’ debt – which se...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Peter Cooper — Short & Simple 17 – A Notion of Macroeconomic Equilibrium

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At the macro level, equilibrium requires that total demand in product markets equals total supply. This could occur at high or low levels o...
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Hazel Marsh — Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it

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The back story.  Similar in Brazil and other Latin American countries. In Brazil the Carnival queen was deposed for being too black . D...
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M.K. Bhadrakumar — Russia Warns the US Over Afghanistan

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The more one looks at it, President Donald Trump’s real challenge is not about winning the war against the Taliban, but the high risk he’ll...
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Pat Lang — The generals rolled him, as they rolled Obama ...

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The difference between Trump and Obama is that under Trump generals are in key civilian positions that are supposed to put a civilian chec...
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Pam and Russ Martens — Wall Street Banks Sued Again for Conspiring to Control a Market

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As summer draws to a close and the Wall Street titans enjoy the last of their lazy long weekends in the Hamptons, summering next door to th...
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Robert Vienneau — The Concept Of Totality

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Georg Lukács quote. Thoughts On Economics The Concept Of Totality Robert Vienneau

Graham E. Fuller — Global Disorder- What Are the Options?

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Global disorder is on the rise. What can the US do about it? There are two fundamentally different approaches one can take—it all depends o...

Baltnews — Greek Minister refuses to attend anti-communist conference in Tallinn, and tells why

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In a letter sent to the organizers of the event, Kontonis explained that such an initiative revives the climate of the Cold War, contradict...

David Lazare — Israel’s Alarm over Syrian Debacle

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Backgrounder on the Middle East. Consortium News Israel’s Alarm over Syrian Debacle David Lazare

Will Denayer — The Great Repeal Bill: the neoliberal assault on democracy and human rights

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The Great Repeal Bill grants May’s ministers the power to rewrite reams of British law without democratic oversight. Not only will there be...