Economics
Bill Mitchell – Germany continues to kill the Eurozone
Interesting analysis of Germany’s macroeconomic strategy. Published in Bill Mitchell’s blog. Read the article HERE.
Month: August 2024
Geopolitics
Thomas Palley – Ukraine’s Hiroshima moment is drawing closer
What if Russia nuked Ukraine using the same logic as when the United States nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the United States-China […]
Climate Crisis
Jordyn Dahl – 5 things to know about Europe’s electric vehicle transition
As European car manufacturers fall well behind their Chinese competitors, the EU is getting twitchy about its own targets to eliminate the internal combustion engine. In ‘Politico’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies – The DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
The United States is on the verge of fighting a war with Iran and/or Russia, conflicts that could easily spiral into WWIII, but you wouldn’t know it from the Democratic Party’s National Convention. Medea Benjamin […]
Fake News
Christian Christensen – Elon Musk Doesn’t Know He’s on the Wrong Side of George Orwell
Musk’s purchase of Twitter has achieved its ambition: he’s converted his economic power into political power. Christian Christensen is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Elon […]
Geopolitics
Trita Parsi – Israel Wants to DRAG The US Into a Broader War
19 August 2024 Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute returns to Bad Faith to explain how the Israel’s assassination of of Hamas top ceasefire negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran reflects Israel’s lack of good […]
Geopolitics
Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Glenn Diesen – NATO invades Russia?
21 August 2024 Has the thin line between proxy war and direct war now been eliminated? I spoke with Colonel Douglas Macgregor as NATO’s direct involvement in the war is evident with its involvement in […]
Geopolitics
The Chris Hedges Report – Ilan Pappé: The Rise and Coming Demise of the Israel Lobby
21 August 2024 The Israel lobby wields as much or more influence over American politics than any lobbying group in Washington. As Ilan Pappé, the Israeli historian, professor and author, and host Chris Hedges detail […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – First, Elon Musk made us pay for ‘free speech’. Now he decides who’s allowed it
The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there […]
Climate Crisis
James Dyke, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr – The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
By framing climate change in terms of temperature, it focuses on the symptoms, not the cause James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter Robert Watson, Emeritus Professor in Environmental Sciences, University […]