People in pain are putting down pills for pot; another breakthrough take the piss out of the power company; and DuPont's guilty, but their dummy company's taking the fall on a double-edged edition of GNNW.
Fear-based politics, horse heads and dead hair + this day in history w/sliced bread and our song of the day by Ages And Ages on your Morning Monarchy for July 7, 2016.
As if by osmosis, Mexican-Spanish is creeping into my daily language. My city of temporary residence is San Miguel de Allende, proudly proclaimed by locals to be “Mexico’s Corazon”. This is Mexico’s heart for at least two reasons. It is as near the geographical center as you can possibly estimate in an odd-shaped country like this, and it was the beating heart of The Mexican War of Independence, finally ending the occupation by the Spanish Empire nearly two centuries ago.
Sputnik — 25.06.2016 MADRID — Spain’s left-wing Podemos party threatens the country’s unity by supporting an independence referendum to be held in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia, Jose Ramon Garcia-Hernandez, the head of international relations of Spain’s ruling People’s Party (PP), told Sputnik on Saturday. Unidos Podemos, an electoral alliance between Podemos and several […]
A recent IMF study (June 2016) exposes flaws in neoliberal policy that have afflicted progressive issues for over 40 years. The title of the study itself “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” hints at the underlying thesis that something must be wrong. Why else pose the question?
“Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion.”1 Senator Bernie Sanders wholeheartedly agrees.
5/5 (8) If you've been a regular reader here, you'll know that one of the things we've been tracking on this website is how American "exceptionalism" and unipolarism have actually been creating a backlash among the…
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A new survey sheds light on the crisis of science; Congress mulls a "counter propaganda" agency; and Apple patents new censorship technology.
This week on the New World Next Week: a new survey sheds light on the crisis of science; Congress mulls a "counter propaganda" agency; and Apple patents new censorship technology.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
— Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, 1959
Christine Lagarde, the Queen of Troika and the Head Honcho of the IMF, on May 6th, threatened to pull the IMF out of the Greek rescue plan, with a straight face, calling it a “rescue plan.” Oh, please!
Yet, it is extremely doubtful the IMF would ever entirely pull out since the plan really bails out its own constituency of banks at an unfathomable expense to the Greek people.
Meantime in Greece, transportation and civic services throughout the country grind to a screeching halt, full stop, as the people hit the streets.
