Economy

Engelhardt, A Personal TomDispatch Farewell (of Sorts) TomDispatch. All good things must come to an end, and sadly that includes...

Yves here. Michael Hudson, in this short but important piece, seeks to define two modern diseases that are devastating societies...

Previously, I have argued that sovereign credit systems are structurally biased toward expansion: crises justify new interventions, those interventions are...

Yves here. While this John Ruehl article gives a useful long historical view of US-Russia relations, I find its extreme...

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 882,57 points or -1.31% to...

Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World.  Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues...

Murray Rothbard’s “The Mantle of Science,” is an immensely rich paper, and in what follows, I’m going to discuss a...

This may partly explain Peter Thiel’s recent decision to temporarily relocate to Argentina.   As most readers will already know, the...

History repeatedly demonstrates the difficulties faced by large conventional powers confronting decentralized resistance movements. From the American Revolution to Vietnam...

“Social construction” is prominent: we are told in various places that this or that is a “social construct”: think of...