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Almost all access to the media, access to the Internet and so forth in the US has been consolidated into the control of six corporations: AT&T/Warner, Comcast, Disney, Newscorp, So…

> Fiat currencies (that is, currency that has no intrinsic value) has existed for at least 1300 years, if not longer. They are not based on air If paper currency got bootstrapping …

As currencies have existed for thousands of years, then I guess it took all that time to bootstrap to a half century ago, where the currency started running on air. Or - A few year…

The a priori to all of this current hubbub is a large number of people who are not of an upper class or upper middle class white American background, who are not even heard at all.…

So your counterpoint is that the call to genocide was one he relayed directly from the president of the USA? The "I was only following orders" defense did not fly at the Nuremberg …

Kissinger's documented order was "anything that flies on anything that moves". While the Nuremberg trials had a lot of evidence, they never had such direct documentary evidence of …

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Then Nigeria and Bangladesh have a significant advantage over Japan, Germany, France and the UK.

There used to be local record shops and big ones downtown - music distribution has since become pretty automated. There used to be many bookstores around - book distribution has be…

The Chinese rioters can settle in Minneapolis, they'll feel right at home.

> The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked a wide range of lurid conspiracy theories in countries whose governments are hostile to the United States, notably Russia, China, Iran, and Ven…

Hong Kong was broken off of China so that the British could push heroin opium on Chinamen. It's a laugh that westerners think they still have some colonial claim at what goes on in…

Hong Kong is a colonial relic, it makes all the sense in the world for China to reintegrate this former imperial outpost now.

The web site this comes from is named for someone who said about Israeld killing of hundreds of children in Gaza bombings "Israel cannot have a proportional response" against the P…

The 2nd largest company on the Fortune 500 has its executives doing major business with a government that dismembers Washington Post employees in foreign embassies. In fact, US def…

Looking at the examples Delong gave 25 years ago, history has been much kinder to Hobsbawm's bleak vision than Delong's. > What has happened in the past decade that has so darkened…

"heroic defender of Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion" Kind of a deluded notion - 40 years after the US and UK fought the First and Second Opium war to steal Hong Kong and push o…

> His work is a criticism of Adam Smith's theories Marx's work is a continuation of Adam Smith that the subject of inquiry was political economy (not "economics"), that value deriv…

As workers tend to have one goal, to have less of their labor time expropriated, there really isn't a reason to have more than one global union. Walmart has over half a trillion in…

> I think every time there is a big peak, or a big valley, some percentage of people are always peddling "but this is different" When stocks crashed in 1929, it was different. In t…

> I attempted to see a specialist for a condition that I had maybe two or three times, I ended up giving up every single time after I was told the wait time is between 3-4 months. …

People have been saying the CCP is on its last legs for over 70 years.

> a member of the plot to murder four exiled opposition leaders in a Berlin restaurant in 1992; and the father of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander believed to be responsible…

> OP: In the 20th century, a lot of very smart people were Marxists — just no one who was smart about the subjects Marxism involves. In 40 years, the USSR, whose economy was about …