On the American Dharma of Dynamics, and the Confusion of Symptom With Cause
The rise of the Deplorable constituency – associated with Trumpism – is not the cause of today’s crisis, but its symptom, Alastair Crooke writes.
Economy
The U.S. Economy Excels at One Thing: Producing Massive Inequality
To grasp the sheer magnitude of U.S. economic inequality in recent years, consider its two major stock market indices: the Standard and Poor (S&P) 500 and Nasdaq. All the other relevant metrics likewise show that economic inequality in the United States kept worsening across the last half-century.
Viral Reddit Post From ‘Robinhood Insider’ Claims White House Pressured Broker to Block Buying of GameStop Shares
WallStreetBets community warns post may be a ploy to panic people into selling.
Big Tech, Corporate Media Smears WallStreetBets as Racist!
Calling Reddit stock nerds "white supremacists" is surely peak "everyone I don't like is a Nazi."
The Strategy Session, Episode 2
Joe Biden will ram through warped liberal social experiments masquerading as credible, time-tested programs designed to stabilize the nation, Robert Bridge writes. Tim and Joaquin discuss his article.
The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Maribel Tuff Off-Guardian commenter, Maribel Tuff, expands their comment Above The Line. Bringing together the US emergency bank lending crisis and the now massive Covid response, I’ve concluded that one of the main reasons it is happening, apart from the corporate looting, is because of a historic event, the USA’s economic collapse and the …
Americans Are Fleeing Lockdown States in Droves
And moving to open states that didn't persist with draconian measures.
Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment
The U.S. Forest Service will release the final version of the environmental analysis for the Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange in three days’ time and a full year ahead of schedule as a result of pressure from the Trump administration, according to local officials.