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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Pepe Escobar — Who profits from the end of the mid-range nuclear treaty?

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The INF Treaty limits missiles with a range from 500 km to 5,000 km. China, Iran and North Korea simply cannot pose a “threat” to the Unite...
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Joaquin Flores — Adventures in Capitalism and the West: IMF Requires Ukraine to Increase Gas Price by a Whopping 40%

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Raising gas prices is one of the conditions for the IMF to continue cooperation with Kiev. The mission of the fund worked in the Ukrainian ...
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Scott Barry Kaufman — What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?

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New research suggests a belief in oneness has broad implications for psychological functioning and compassion for those are outside of our ...

Alex Ward — The US is stopping trade talks with China

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“China is convinced that Trump is not looking to resolve the trade dispute,” Daniel Russel , the State Department’s top Asia diplomat from ...

Bolton faces Putin’s dismay amid INF exit tension

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I put this out before, but this is a different edit. I enjoyed seeing being able to see Putin talk this time. I'm maybe naive, I know,...

Democracy Now! Palast Sues Gorgia's Brian Kemp

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I love Greg Palast with his cheeky chappy, B - movie private detective look. And his books are extremely well written too, with lots of  com...

John Lounsbury — Documentary Of The Week: But How Will We Pay For It?

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On Stephanie Kelton and MMT. econintersect.com Documentary Of The Week: But How Will We Pay For It? John Lounsbury See also at econi...
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Bill Mitchell — Left-liberals and neoliberals really should not be in the same party

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This week’s theme seems to be the about how the so-called progressive side of the economic and political debate keeps kicking ‘own goals’ (...
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Derren Brown - How To Hypnotise Simon Pegg

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Derren Brown is British mentalist, and if you haven't heard of him, the guy is amazing, but he says he has no special psychic gifts, it...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Links 24 October 2018

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Defend Democracy News Scale of NATO Practice Offensives Near Russia Growing – Defense Minister Shoigu Fort Russ News MAJOR: NATO ACTIVI...

Craig Murray — Khashoggi, Erdogan and the Truth

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Best information on the Khashoggi affair I have encountered so far. There are many things to learn from the gruesome murder other than th...
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Brian Romanchuk — Primer: Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis

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The "Financial Instability Hypothesis" is a phrase describing the economist Hyman Minsky's views on the driver of the busines...

Bill Mitchell — Progressive political leadership is absent but required

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One of the themes that has emerged in the discussions of the British Labour Party Fiscal Credibility Rule (which should be renamed the Fisc...
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Is abstract knowledge incompatible with literal memorization?

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Appears (empirically) as if our ability to abstract might be in direct conflict with our ability of rote memorization... Solomon Sheresh...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

VPOTUS Remembers Beirut

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VP Pence tweet today on the 35th anniversary... 35 years ago, radical Islamic terrorists, backed by Iran, bombed our Marine Barracks in ...
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John Binder — Ken Cuccinelli: States Can Stop Migrant Caravan 'Invasion' with Constitutional 'War Powers'

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The latest crazy. Maybe taking a lead from Israel's shooting marching protesters as "invaders"? Breitbart News Exclusive-...
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Sandwichman — "Opportunity Cost of Socialism"

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Why is the Council of Economic Advisers producing party political propaganda for the GOP?… Are Trump's "economic advisers"...
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RT - John Bolton meets Putin during his visit to Moscow

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It's worth watching for the comments underneath. The current US national security adviser landed in Moscow less than two days afte...
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Peter Radford — Those Lumps Matter

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Funny critique of economics as patent nonsense. The Radford Free Press Those Lumps Matter Peter Radford

Josh Jones — Yale Professor Jason Stanley Identifies Three Essential Features of Fascism: Invoking a Mythic Past, Sowing Division & Attacking Truth

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Short book review, with some useful links.  "Fascism" is claimed to be a rising phenomenon. The question is, what is it anywa...
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Alastair Crooke — Khashoggi’s Murder – At the Complex Intersection of Three Points of Inflection

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Good backgrounder on the current state of the snake pit. Khashoggi is hailed in the West as a liberal, favouring democratic reform, but in...
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Renegade Inc - The Finance Curse RT Renegade Inc

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This is absolutely excellent. David Buik, who is a thoroughly decent fellow who comes on to defend the City of London, is humbled and incred...
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Tim Young — Blockading Venezuela: The Linchpin of the US Strategy of Aggression

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Sanctions now form a key part of what is a strategic plan by the US to ruin the Venezuelan economy, says Tim Young.… It's not socialis...
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Timothy Taylor — The Remarkable Fall in Global Poverty

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There's a problem here in this analysis. It ignores the informal economy, much of which is not monetized. The push of capitalism is to...

Lars P. Syll — Wren-Lewis insults medical science

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Medicine is to science (biology) as public policy is to economics, that is, an application. Medicine based on evidence-based science is re...
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Michael Hudson - Life and Thought

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This is a good video of Michael Hudson which is a kind of autobiography. He says how he started out studying music but he needed to a make a...
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Andrew Korybko — The World Will Never Agree To An Expanded INF Treaty, And The US Knows It

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The US knows that its public pretense of pulling out of the INF Treaty in order to compel other countries to join an expanded version of it...

Hard Work Is Overrated (feat. Gary Vaynerchuk, Casey Neistat, Elon Musk)

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Remember those silhouettes in the newspapers, a black outline of a man with 'Success ' written underneath, where you can pay for a c...
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Bill Mitchell — The British Labour Fiscal Credibility rule – some further final comments

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In this blog post, I want to clarify a few things about the rule that inform my previous assessments.... Important if you are a British vo...
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President Trump: "I'm a nationalist."

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Gets huge cheers from the crowd... President Trump: "I'm a nationalist." pic.twitter.com/3lxCrtSkrN — MSNBC (@MSNBC) Octob...
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