The Curious Engineer

Ian Welsh

2010–2017

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2017 221

December 2017

  1. Why the Wave Election of 2018 Could Mean Nothing
  2. Russia as an Enemy of the United States
  3. Merry Christmas
  4. The Genocidal Species
  5. The Solution to Opiate Fentanyl Deaths
  6. The Torture Culture
  7. And So Net Neutrality Ends in the US
  8. US Electoral Predictions for 2018 and Beyond
  9. The Younger You Are the More Your Vote Should Count
  10. On Franken’s Resignation
  11. How Internet Monopolies Are Destroying the Web
  12. What the Republican Tax Bill Portends for the Future
  13. Egypt’s a Disaster: A Totally Expected Disaster

November 2017

  1. What Different Types of Meditation Do
  2. Money Is Power and Billionaires Can Subvert Democracy
  3. Was All-Powerful Russia Responsible for Brexit, Trump, and Catalonia?
  4. Trump’s Policy on NAFTA Is Mostly Correct
  5. DOJ Suing to Stop the AT&T/Time Warner Merger
  6. Assassination Works Only Under Two Circumstances
  7. Five Hundred Million Dollar Negative Yield Bond Issued
  8. The “Missing” Inflation Shows Up as Hyper-inflation
  9. Lewinsky Is Not Why Clinton Should Have Resigned
  10. Brexit and the Work-to-rule of the Managerial Class
  11. The CIA Lies and So Does Putin
  12. Reasons for Hope: The Cultural Shift on Rape and Sexual Abuse
  13. China Thinks Strategically and We Don’t
  14. Bitcoin Is a Bad Way to Do Something Necessary
  15. Saudi Arabian Crown Consolidates Control as War Looms
  16. Obama’s Responsibility for Clinton’s Purchase of the DNC
  17. Yellen’s Legacy Is Doing Nothing that Mattered
  18. When People and Societies Change

October 2017

  1. Under the Weather
  2. 2017 Fundraiser Ends
  3. The Right Stuff: What Prosperity Is and Isn’t
  4. You Were Going to Die Anyway
  5. Matching Funds Finished
  6. Bugpocalypse: Environmental Collapse Continues
  7. Fundraiser Reaches $7,000 Mark, Almost Over
  8. George Bush Is Responsible for Innumerable Murders and Rapes
  9. How Our Everyday Life Creates Our Character and Our Destiny
  10. China’s Economy, Freedom and the Threat of War
  11. Could Obama Have Fixed the Economy?
  12. Iraq Army Attacks Peshmerga Near Kirkuk
  13. Corbyn Wants to Destroy the Current Economic System
  14. Four Laws for Protecting Capitalism from Itself
  15. Is There Going to Be an Iraqi-Kurdish War?
  16. Gas Companies Manipulated Pipeline Capacity to Rook New England Customers 3.6 Billion
  17. The Growing Puerto Rico Disaster
  18. Fundraiser Update: C. 6K Raised, 1st Goal Reached
  19. France Ends Freedom
  20. How to Meditate 101
  21. The Destruction of the Third World
  22. Ends Versus Means
  23. Social Facts Rule Your Life
  24. On Vegas, Shootings, and Gun Control
  25. The Role of Character and Ideology in Prosperity
  26. Our True Legacy: Plastic

September 2017

  1. The Control and Continuation of Capitalist Societies
  2. Screw Optimism and Screw “Sanity”
  3. Will Capitalism and Democracy Survive?
  4. Puerto Rico: Late Imperial Possession
  5. 2017 Fundraiser
  6. How to Think
  7. A Note on Kulturkampf and the German Elections
  8. Review of Descarte’s Error , by Antonio Damasio
  9. Meditation, Cultivation, and Spirituality Books (Part One)
  10. Obama’s Just the Enemy and Always Was
  11. Review, Impro , by Keith Johnstone
  12. Real Existing Brexit
  13. Fiction We Loved as Adults
  14. The Intelligence of Hillary Clinton
  15. Review of Rest , by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
  16. Biometric Recognition Systems Are Just Totalitarian
  17. What 9/11 Did to America and the World
  18. September 11th
  19. How Much the US Economy Has Recovered for Most Workers
  20. Hurricane Irma and Thinking About Future Climate Change
  21. Fiction We Loved as Children and Teenagers
  22. Saudi Arabian Collapse Continues
  23. Korea Claims to Test a Hydrogen Bomb
  24. On Wells Fargo

August 2017

  1. Review: The SPQR Series by John Maddox Roberts
  2. The Further Tragedy of Hurricane Harvey
  3. Book Review: Pandora’s Seed by Spencer Wells
  4. The World Is Going to Hell Because
  5. Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
  6. Trump Commits to Afghanistan
  7. Book Review: The Spirit Level
  8. Bannon Out
  9. Oppressive Precedents Used Against Nazis Will Be Used Against the Left
  10. Lies, Damned Monopolies, and Sex Difference Statistics (UPDATED)
  11. Nazis Are Not Socialists
  12. On Charlottesville: Why the Center Is Okay with Nazis but Hates the Left
  13. Book Review: Bad Samaritans , by Ha-Joon Chang
  14. “The Construction of Reality” Booklet Report
  15. Ending North Korea Fear
  16. Book Review: Confucius and the Chinese Way , by H. G. Creel
  17. How Society Creates Ability
  18. A Quick Note on Venezuela
  19. Why Relying on People’s Vices Backfires
  20. Something Genuinely Good the Internet Has Allowed…

July 2017

  1. Relations with Russia Sour Further
  2. The Only Person with Sense in the Trump Administration…
  3. A World Without Poor People (Sort of)
  4. On Stubborn Facts and Partisan Identification
  5. Shhhh! Russia Can Like Something and It Can Be Good.
  6. The End of Cash; The End of Freedom
  7. The Death of Saudi Arabia
  8. Why There Is More Reason to Hope Today than in Decades
  9. There Is No Major “Good” Government Leader
  10. France’s Macron Wants a Technocratic Presidential State
  11. Happy Independence Day
  12. Happy Canada Day
  13. One Deep Reason Why the US Does Not Have a Sane Way to Pay for Health Care for All

June 2017

  1. More Death Is Worse than Less Death, Amirite?
  2. The Black Book Of Capitalism
  3. The Fall of the USSR
  4. That Tax Cut Talking Point
  5. You Can’t Stay in the EU or Single Market And Be For Labour’s Manifesto
  6. Do People Matter Most Or Does Property?
  7. The Sort of Behaviour That Gets You a Robespierre
  8. The Congressional Shooting and Political Violence
  9. Is Impeaching Trump a Good Idea?
  10. A Time of Hope
  11. The Hung UK Parliament
  12. The Labour Surge in Britain (Election Day Thread)
  13. The Cause of the Opiate Epidemic
  14. Saying Is Doing

May 2017

  1. The Real Threat To Europe Is Neither America Nor Russia
  2. Open Thread
  3. The Flying Trees
  4. My Friend Peter
  5. You Will Never Be Free of Identity Politics
  6. Essential Insanity
  7. The Word Terrorism
  8. A Quick Note About Single Payer
  9. The Off-Ramps Never Used
  10. Get a Grip
  11. The Usefulness of Alt-Left, EmoProg, BernieBros, and FireBaggers
  12. Nature Does Not Grade on a Curve
  13. Open Thread
  14. A Middle Class Which Aligns with the Rich Cuts Its Own Throat
  15. Macron Wins in France
  16. Lying Liars, the Media, and Broken Democracies
  17. Getting Trump Right and Wrong
  18. Sterile Elites and the French Election
  19. Trump Is Not Wrong to Be Willing to Talk to North Korea’s Leader
  20. A Modest Proposal to Fix the World

April 2017

  1. Was All the “Trump is Hitler” Rhetoric Right?
  2. Rentiers vs. Capitalists, Yahoo CEO Edition
  3. Open Thread
  4. Obama Starts Cashing In Directly for Bailing Out Wall Street
  5. Macron vs. Le Pen in France
  6. How to Think About Thoughts
  7. British General Election Called for May 8th
  8. Open Thread
  9. Steve Bannon In (and Out?) of Donald Trump’s Imperial Court
  10. Quick Hit: France Is Just a Giant Greece
  11. (Scorn) So, You Read It in the Newspaper
  12. Syria and the Cult of the Tough Decision
  13. Trump Fires Missiles on Syrian Airbase
  14. Does Everyone Always Act in Their Self-Interest?
  15. Democratic Filibuster of Gorsuch, Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee

March 2017

  1. Punishing People in Pain
  2. Trump Signals He’s About to Blow His Foot Off
  3. Britain Starts the Process for Leaving the EU
  4. Jeremy Corbyn’s Electile Dysfunction
  5. If Trumpcare Fails
  6. Ideology Precedes Policy Which Determines Outcomes
  7. The Basic Psychological Structure of Our Society Does Not Work
  8. Trump Is Now Breaking His Core Promises
  9. The Fed Hikes
  10. Trump Couldn’t Buy Coverage Like This
  11. Arctic Permafrost Defrosting and the Age of War and Revolution
  12. So Trump and Republicans Are STILL More Popular than Clinton and Dems
  13. Brazil’s Economic Tumble
  14. The GOP Healthcare Plan
  15. The Myth of Balder
  16. The Wild 2020/2024 Elections
  17. Obama Starts to Cash In

February 2017

  1. Election Interference
  2. Perez Chosen as DNC Chair
  3. The Realpolitik of Britain’s Interest in a LePen Victory
  4. Immigration and Wages
  5. The Press Is Trump’s Enemy, Not the Left’s Friend
  6. Fools Russians Where Angels Fear to Tread
  7. How to Fix Posts and Comments Not Showing
  8. The Deep State vs. Trump
  9. Market Failure, Epinephrine Injections, and Societal Failure
  10. Trump and the Resistance
  11. A Note on Happiness
  12. Fixing the World #2: Moral Calculus
  13. By Criticizing This, Liberals Look Like Fools
  14. In Which Mandos Is Unsympathetic Towards Australia’s PM
  15. The War with the Fed Begins
  16. My Dream

January 2017

  1. The Method to Trump and Bannon’s “Madness”
  2. Lessons for “The Resistance” from the Bush Resistance
  3. Trump’s Muslim Ban
  4. It Is Better to Be Feared than Loved, if You Cannot Be Both
  5. Trump Has Not Yet Lied About What Matters Most
  6. The Control of Parties and the Rise and Fall of Ideologies
  7. The CIA vs. Trump
  8. Does Trump Get Impeached or Get Two Terms?
  9. Transcript of Trump’s Inaugural Speech
  10. Inauguration Open Thread
  11. What Can You Do In Troubled Times?
  12. Trump Says—
  13. Trump on Health Insurance, NATO, and the EU
  14. I Can’t Imagine Why People Are Willing to Gamble On Change
  15. Angry Interview on Trump, Dark Ages, and Despair
  16. Trump Promises to Reduce Drug Prices
  17. The Latest Dossier on Trump
  18. The Continued Collision Between Trump and the Fed
  19. The Public Option for Obamacare Was Not Impossible
  20. Rule of Men, Not Law
  21. Trump and the Art of the Strongman
  22. Cyclical vs. End-Time Thinking
  23. 2016 In Retrospect
  24. People Are Not of a Piece
  25. Happy New Year

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December 2016

  1. On Trump’s Reaction to Putin Not Expelling US Diplomats
  2. Book Review of “Dark Age Ahead,” by Jane Jacobs
  3. Merry Christmas
  4. Open Thread
  5. Trump Is the Next Stage of the Disease
  6. Trump and the Taming of the Oligarchs
  7. Trump’s Relationship with US Intelligence
  8. Heaven on Earth: The Kindness Maxim
  9. Everything Cost Clinton the Election
  10. The Lies at the Heart of Our Dying Order
  11. Trump’s Coming Confrontation with Yellen and the Federal Reserve
  12. If People Want To Use “Ze” As A Gender Neutral Pronoun, Whatever
  13. Trump Is No Longer Trump
  14. The Trump China Showdown Aligns with Reality
  15. Russian Hacking of the US Election and Faithless Electors
  16. Why I Write
  17. Basic Reasoning and Reading
  18. The Insanity of India and the Future of Humanity
  19. The Genius of Genghis Khan
  20. Italy’s Constitutional Referendum Fails, Europe Shudders
  21. Trump’s Not-So-Crazed Speech in Ohio
  22. Review of Justice, by Michael Sandel
  23. Reagan and George W. Bush Changed the World More than Bill Clinton or Obama
  24. Don’t Underestimate Steven Bannon

November 2016

  1. Maybe It Is Time to Stop Underestimating Trump?
  2. Castro’s Legacy
  3. Review of “The Economy of Cities” by Jane Jacobs
  4. Marine Le Pen and the Problem of Nationalist Politics in Europe
  5. Trump on His Transition
  6. And…France Moves Hard Right
  7. Why Many People Love Trump
  8. The Historical Context of Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory and How It Shows a Constitutional Crisis
  9. If Trump Wasn’t Right that DC Elites are Fuckups, Trump Wouldn’t Be President-elect
  10. How Jefferson and Hamilton Designed the Republic for Labor
  11. Living in the Truth or Dying in Lies
  12. If Trump Is a Nazi
  13. Taking Care of Yourself in the Time of Trump
  14. The Imperial Trump Court
  15. This Is a Constitutional Crisis
  16. The Votes by Income Graph Does Not Prove Working Class Whites Didn’t Break for Trump
  17. Good Writers Do Not Have to Be Good People
  18. post test two
  19. Post Test
  20. Whistleblowers vs. Democrats?
  21. Mandos on Trump’s Victory
  22. Why Trump Won
  23. Trump Pushes Hope While Clinton Pushes Fear
  24. US Election Day
  25. Trump’s Logic Is Not Crazy
  26. Parliamentary Primacy
  27. Your Responsibility for the American Election
  28. Before the Election
  29. Saudi Arabian Debt Will Not Be Among Safest in World
  30. Stopping Violent International Aggression
  31. Transcript of Peter Thiel’s Speech On Trump

October 2016

  1. On Comey
  2. On Wikileaks’ Actions in this Election
  3. (Guest Post) WikiLeaks: An Own Goal
  4. Book Review: Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
  5. Because You All Come Here for My Taste in Music (Part 2)
  6. Russia Is Preparing for War
  7. You Can’t Scream Holocaust or Fascist Without Consequences
  8. The Republican Party Is Not “Broken”
  9. Some Comments on the US Elections and that Which Is and Isn’t Said
  10. On Brexit: Britain Can’t and Shouldn’t Have It Both Ways
  11. Obama’s Department of Justice’s Prime Job Is to Immunize Rich Wrongdoers
  12. How US Presidential Politics Guarantees Inevitable Decline

September 2016

  1. Trump/Clinton Debate Open Thread
  2. The Golden Laws of Prosperity
  3. War Criminals, I See War Criminals
  4. Jeremy Corbyn Re-elected as British Labour Leader
  5. The Wells Fargo Scandal Was by Design
  6. Vancouver to Tax Those with Empty Properties
  7. That Great Census News
  8. The Consequences of 9/11
  9. Terrible Human Political Judgment
  10. Some Fruits of Meditation: Simple Happiness
  11. Two Charts Which Explain J.K. Rowling’s Love of Blairism and Hatred of Corbyn
  12. The Brazilian Dilma Rousseff Coup

August 2016

  1. The Simple, Obvious, and Correct Fix for Pharma
  2. It’s Not Just EpiPen Which Is Seeing Huge Price Increases, So Is Insulin
  3. What Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Microsoft, and IBM Teach Us About Competitive Markets
  4. The Simple Fix for Intellectual Property Laws
  5. As Turkey Enters Syria
  6. The Need to Believe in Goodness
  7. Review of “Max Weber: A Skeleton Key,” by Randall Collins
  8. Posting to Resume & Corbyn (Open Thread)
  9. John Negroponte Endorses Clinton
  10. Corbyn’s Plan
  11. Book Review of Sociological Insight, by Randall Collins
  12. As Trump Melts Down
  13. Book Review: “Max Weber: A Skeleton Key” On Sunday August 14th
  14. The Uncertain Future and the American Election

July 2016

  1. Hillary Clinton’s DNC Speech
  2. Book Review of Sociological Insight by Randall Collins Will Go Live Sunday, August 7th
  3. It’s Clinton’s Election to Lose
  4. Trump’s Speech: Not Insane
  5. Full Transcript of Trump’s Acceptance Speech
  6. What Happens Now that the Turkish Coup Has Failed
  7. Trump Is Doing What Matters Most for Winning the Election
  8. Turkey’s Purge
  9. Personnel: A Potential Achilles’ Heel for Progressive Electoral Politics
  10. Turkish Coup Attempt Fails
  11. The Nice Attacks
  12. Let Us Speak of Hope for the Future
  13. On Bernie Sanders
  14. Labour National Executive Votes Corbyn is on the Ballot and Purges Members
  15. What the UK Labour Party Leadership Rules Actually Say About Nominating a Leader
  16. The World Has Always Been a Shit Show and It’s Always Been Beautiful
  17. Blair, et al. Committed War Crimes

June 2016

  1. Neither Corbyn Nor Labour Need the Rebel MPs
  2. Corbyn Loses No Confidence Vote 172-40 but Vows to Stay
  3. Leave Won Because It Has a Better Story
  4. On the Anti-Corbyn Coup
  5. More on Post Brexit and Why It Happened
  6. Consequences of Britain’s Vote to Leave the EU
  7. Brexit Open Thread
  8. The Gun Control Sit-In
  9. The White Opiate “Epidemic” Is Not About Pain Killer Prescriptions
  10. The Continued Rise of the Populist Right
  11. Reaping as One Sows: Brexit Edition
  12. Trump vs. Clinton
  13. Identity Politics and Interest
  14. How Bernie Gives Hope for the Future
  15. Well America Has Their Thatcher; Congratulations?
  16. Brexit and the European Union: What’s Actually at Stake
  17. Third World Nation: 33 Cities Cheated to Pass Lead Tests
  18. Is Hypocrisy Preferrable to Honesty?

May 2016

  1. Do Great Men and Women Change the World?
  2. “Voltaire’s Bastards” by John Ralston Saul: The Death of Purpose at the Hands of Reason
  3. Why Hillary Clinton Is the Worst Kind of Leader
  4. Peter Thiel’s Attack On Gawker Is Not an Abuse of Wealth
  5. Ethical Political Redemption
  6. The Role of Politicians in an Oligarchy…
  7. Democracy Is a Way of Avoiding Violence
  8. Surviving Climate Change
  9. Hollande Continues to Prove that a Fake Left-Winger Is Worse than Most Right-Wingers
  10. Trump Starts His March Leftwards By Saying He’ll Tax Rich People
  11. Trump Suggests Restructuring US Debt
  12. “Voltaire’s Bastards” by John Ralston Saul, Review May 29th
  13. The Labour Vote Is Up Four Percent
  14. People Are Soooo Convinced Trump Can’t Win the Presidency
  15. Learning to Understand the World
  16. How the Rational Irrationality of Capitalism Is Destroying the World

April 2016

  1. Cries for Sanders to Be Conciliatory Miss the Point
  2. Why the Climate Change Numbers Say “Nuclear”
  3. How Terrible People Normalize Injustice
  4. What the Infotech/Telecom Revolution Has Actually Done
  5. Most Russians Would Like the USSR Back
  6. Open Thread (Primaries)
  7. Single Payer Healthcare: Bernie Sanders vs. The Wonks
  8. What Should Wages, Prices, and Taxes Be?
  9. The Market Fairy Will Not Solve the Problems of Uber and Lyft
  10. Climate Change and Heat
  11. Things That Should Have Been Done Yesterday, #1
  12. Slow Posting
  13. The Panama Papers Leak
  14. Will Capitalism Be Replaced By Something Better?

March 2016

  1. The End of the Age of Oil
  2. What Matters Is Character (Terrorism and Rights Edition)
  3. Russia Sells Six to Seven Billion Dollars of Planes After Syria
  4. Stopping Deflation? Dead Easy. So Why Isn’t It Being Done?
  5. Hillary Clinton Is a Monstrous Politician
  6. Toronto Ex-Mayor Rob Ford Dead
  7. Slow Posting
  8. Why Poor White Males Are the Core of Trump’s Support
  9. Trump Hysteria
  10. Trump and Clinton Win
  11. Book Reviews in My 2016 Series
  12. The UK Referendum on Leaving the European Union
  13. You Think Trump Is a Fascist, BUT…
  14. If You Want to Beat the Right, Call the Left
  15. A Kinder Logan’s Run?
  16. Matching Donations Up to $600 to Get Us to the Construction of Reality – REACHED
  17. Trump Wins, Sanders Wins Michigan
  18. Fundraising Update: Book Reviews Unlocked, Just over $1,000 to “The Construction of Reality” Booklet
  19. The Brilliance Of Justin Trudeau
  20. Who is the Feminist Candidate?
  21. Hang Together or Hang Separately: European Unity and the Refugees
  22. Pure Utilitarianism and Capitalism
  23. This Concern About Trump Forcing the US Military to Commit War Crimes Is Beyond Farcical
  24. Stopping Donald Trump at the Convention
  25. Trump Is a Consistent Right-Wing, Nativist Populist
  26. Is Sanders Done?
  27. Super Tuesday—Clinton and Trump Win as Expected
  28. How Much Property Is Ethical?

February 2016

  1. Practical Theoretical Ethics
  2. The Kindergarten Ethics We Need
  3. Fundraiser Update and Bitcoin Support
  4. Watch, Feel, and Think
  5. The Barbarism of Donald Trump
  6. Trumponomics – How the Trump Economic Plan Will Work
  7. Trump Wins in Nevada
  8. The Culture of Meanness
  9. The Future Belongs To The Young, Once the Old Die
  10. Clinton and Trump Win
  11. Can Clinton Win Using Super-Delegates?
  12. Fundraiser Update
  13. First National Poll Shows Bernie Up Over Clinton
  14. What Can Rich Countries Afford?
  15. Guardian Pushes for Western Countries Involvement in Invasion of Syria
  16. Saudi Arabia & Turkey to Invade Syria?
  17. Trump Says He Would Put a 35 Percent Tax on Goods from Mexico
  18. Supreme Court Justice Scalia Is Dead
  19. Bernie Sanders is now even with Clinton in Reuters Tracking Poll
  20. Henry Kissinger Is a War Criminal, Hillary Clinton Is a War Criminal
  21. The Economy Has NOT Recovered (With Graphs)
  22. “Trust Me,” Said the 401(k), “A Sucker Is Born Every Day.”
  23. Like Manhattan? If You Don’t Live There Now, You Never Will
  24. Sanders and Trump Win in New Hampshire
  25. 2016 Fundraiser
  26. What Sort of Person Does Evil or Stands by While Evil Is Done?
  27. Trump Is Viable in a General Election and Has Left-flanked Hilary
  28. The American Death Wish
  29. Problems with Economics: The Cult of Utility
  30. Why Do Millenials Love Bernie Sanders?
  31. Failure Is the Precondition for Fascism
  32. Iowa Caucus Results
  33. The Bailouts Caused the Shitty Economy, Part 2

January 2016

  1. And This Is Why You Don’t Screw Up Post-USSR Russia
  2. Police Now Steal More than Burglars
  3. Important Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does: Corbyn Trident Missile Edition
  4. Paul Krugman Against Bernie Sanders
  5. Did the Industrial Revolution Require Land Clearances, Slavery, Genocide, and Empire?
  6. What Is Capitalism?
  7. The Death of Capitalism
  8. The Day Someone Bombs a Wedding or Funeral in the US…
  9. I Will Take Your Squealing over Litvinenko’s Assassination Seriously if You Have Criticized Obama’s Drone Assassinations
  10. Oligarchs & Criminals: Reward and Punishment After the Unmoved Mover
  11. As Bitcoin Falls Apart
  12. What Chinese Market Turmoil Tells Us About 2016
  13. The End of the Euro and the Tragedy of the Transnational Dream
  14. Japanification Revisited
  15. The Best Paid People in Our Societies Are the Worst People
  16. On Meditation
  17. Free and Prosperous Societies Occur Only When the Basis of Power Is the People
  18. Why Inequality Is Intrinsically Bad
  19. 2015 in Review

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December 2015

  1. Live Preview for Comments
  2. New CAPTCHA Added for Comments
  3. On Hate
  4. Merry Christmas
  5. The Problem with Hillary Clinton
  6. The Late (Internet) Telecom Revolution Is Not Such a Big Deal
  7. (Corrected—A Not-Unreasonable Action) If You Don’t Want People to Compare You to Nazis, Don’t act like Nazis, Denmark Edition
  8. CEO Martin Shkreli Arrested for Securities Fraud
  9. Bad Russians Decide to Ignore European Human Rights Court
  10. What the Paris Climate Accord Tells Us About Our Future
  11. Dutch Disease
  12. Developed World Propaganda Ability Is Breaking Down
  13. The Vast Injustice of Linking Gun Purchases to the No-Fly List
  14. The Bitter Harvest of Failure: France’s Far Right Takes the Lead in Regional Elections
  15. UK Labour By-Election Victory
  16. Jeremy Corbyn and the Syrian Bombing Vote

November 2015

  1. The Silver Lining of Thanksgiving Past
  2. Examining Turkey’s Shoot Down of a Russian Jet
  3. Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet
  4. If You Wanted to Ban Foreigners from the US to Stop Terrorist Attacks—
  5. Bombing, Air Power, and “Winning” in Syria
  6. Obamacare Failures Are by Design
  7. Ethics and Responsibility in Relation to Paris
  8. The Reason for the Paris Attacks
  9. Putin’s Secret Intent and How It Relates to Syria
  10. Tunnels of the Underclass
  11. It’s Nice that Canada’s Cabinet Is Half Women, But…

October 2015

  1. When Does Technological Advancement Actually Lead to Prosperity?
  2. Heat Too Hot to Survive
  3. Eurocrat Coup in Portugal
  4. Why Registering Drones with the Government Matters
  5. What Type of Electoral “Reform” Might Canada’s Liberal Party Enact?
  6. What Is the Cost of NDP Losing Canada?
  7. Consequences of the Canadian Liberal Majority
  8. Canadian Election Today, Monday, October 19th
  9. Some Interesting Things About the Russian Coalition’s Syrian Campaign
  10. In France, There Is a Cost to Executives for Laying People Off
  11. The Political Consequences of Mental Models
  12. This Is Why I Always Give the Benefit of the Doubt to Left-wing Opponents of the Regime
  13. Free Trade Is Elites Betraying Their Own Populations
  14. Pain
  15. How Harper and the Conservatives Broke the Canadian Economy

September 2015

  1. It’s Almost as if the Pope Is Catholic
  2. David Cameron and a Dead Pig
  3. Syriza Wins Re-election
  4. So, You Supported Corbyn: Here Is What You MUST Do if He Is to Survive and Win
  5. The Human Crop of War
  6. So, Corbyn Is Now the Labour Leader in the UK
  7. The First Task for Prosperity Is Ending Artificial Scarcity
  8. Is Russia About to Send a Thousand Troops to Syria?
  9. As You See the Images of the Refugee Crisis

August 2015

  1. The Right Thing to Do
  2. Look, Trump’s Policies Are Nativist Populism
  3. As the Dow Jones Drops
  4. Social Facts Rule Your Life
  5. Clinton Looks Like Toast to Me
  6. The Problem with Identity
  7. As Corbyn Rolls Towards the British Labour Nomination
  8. Why Trump, Corbyn and Sanders Are Doing Well
  9. Further Notes on Meditation and Cultivation
  10. So You Want to Understand the World? A Reading List
  11. What the Final Retreat Did to Greece’s Government
  12. The Writ Is Dropped and the Canadian Election Is On!

July 2015

  1. US Corruption vs. World Corruption
  2. Charlie Hebdo Will No Longer Publish Cartoons Showing the Prophet
  3. Tsipras: “Now that I Have Unconditionally Surrendered, I Promise to Lead the Fight.”
  4. What Sandra Bland Illustrates About the “Right to Abuse”
  5. The Iranian Nuclear Deal
  6. When Will Greek Looting and Austerity End?
  7. Syriza Wins in Greece: What It Must Do
  8. Yet Another Deal
  9. Greek Talks Continue
  10. Greek Bailout Offer Passes
  11. What Does Syriza Have a Mandate to Do?
  12. Meanwhile, Some Music!
  13. New Greek Proposal—Essentially the Same
  14. If Syriza Blinks
  15. Chinese Stock Market Woes and the Pre-War World
  16. Where Greece Should Go from Here
  17. ECB Is Trying to Break Greece: Buckle or Leave the Euro
  18. Meanwhile, in China, There’s a Huge Stock Market Crash
  19. Consequences of the Greek OXI (No) Vote
  20. Greek Referendum Day
  21. As a Subject of Her Majesty, the Queen, Long May She Reign

June 2015

  1. France Arrests Uber Executives
  2. Syriza and the EU Seem to Be in Completely Different Worlds
  3. How Eurocrats, Greeks, Germans, and Eastern Europeans View the Greek Crisis
  4. Finance Ministers Refuse an Extension to Their Offer to Greece
  5. Syriza Will Put Bailout to a Referendum
  6. I Am So Happy About Gay Marriage Being Legal in the US
  7. French Taxi Drivers Receive Concessions Through Violence
  8. Greece and the Emperor’s New Clothes
  9. The Lesson of Greece Is that Europe Is Run by Functional Sociopaths or Psychopaths
  10. Humans to Go Extinct in Three, Two—
  11. The American $10 Bill
  12. Burn In Hell?
  13. Push Is Coming to Shove with Greece
  14. Being Effective and Liked in the Workplace
  15. The Enforcer Class
  16. The Honesty of Morphine Addiction
  17. Canada’s Left-most Party, the NDP, Moves Ahead of the Neo-liberal Liberal Party
  18. Congressional Surveillance Reform
  19. No One Who Hasn’t Sold Their Soul Can Afford a Home in London

May 2015

  1. Fourteen Points on the World Economy as the US GDP Drops .7 Percent
  2. Trying to Move the Democratic Party Even More to the Right
  3. How to Be Liked or Even Loved by Blue Collar and Service Workers
  4. Hizbollah’s Leader Says They Are Battling All Across Syria
  5. As Palmyra Falls to ISIS, What Are the Syrian Government’s Prospects?
  6. Egypt’s Freely Elected President, Morsi, Sentenced to Death
  7. Does Attention Deficit Disorder Medication “Work”?
  8. The Establishment Is Losing Control: Britain Shows Us Change Is Possible
  9. Tesla’s Home Battery System Is Not the Best Solution
  10. Conservatives Appear to Have Won in the UK: What the Left Should Do
  11. Alberta Elects the New Democratic Party (NDP)
  12. Regular Posting to Resume Soon
  13. Noam Chomsky Owns Sam Harris and Indicts Bill Clinton

April 2015

  1. Happiness and Freedom: East German Version
  2. Is Violence Ever Justified? Does Violence Ever Solve Anything?
  3. As Baltimore Riots
  4. The Rise of the Islamic State
  5. Obama Tries to Make His Bones Again with the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  6. The Three Types of People Who Wind Up Rich and How They Destroy the Wealth of Others
  7. Austerity in the EU—in Rap
  8. Libyan Refugees and European Intervention
  9. The Three Types of Radicalism
  10. The Role of the Intellectual
  11. John Edwards
  12. Identity Markers Do Not Make You Left Wing
  13. Learned Hopelessness About Using Government for Good
  14. The Solution to Ghost Apartments Is Obvious and Predictably Overlooked
  15. The Sheer Idiocy of Helicopter Parenting
  16. A Clintonian Coronation?
  17. The Decline and Fall of Post-war Liberalism and the Rise of the Right
  18. Your Annual Reminder that if America Does It, It’s Not as Bad as if Russia Does It
  19. Iranian Concerns About the Nuclear Deal Are Reasonable
  20. Rahm’s Win in Chicago: Does It Say Something About Americans?
  21. Union Fear, Betrayal, and Decline
  22. World Economy Heading for Recession
  23. Oil=Water=Food

March 2015

  1. Always Remember, the NY Times Pushed, Hard, for War in Iraq
  2. Fundraiser Finished: Five Articles a Week, Average, Reached
  3. Circles of Belonging
  4. Serfdom Is Better Than What the West is Heading For
  5. The Philosohy of Populist Change
  6. We Know What Our Problems Are and We Do Nothing or Make Them Worse
  7. Fundraising almost done: $874.36 from 5 articles a week
  8. The complete inability to manage obvious problems: California Drought Edition
  9. What Intellectual Judgment Is
  10. Fundraising update: $1,484.36 to go to 5 articles a week
  11. The Dangers of Intelligence without Creativity or Judgment
  12. What the Melian Dialogue tells us about the End of Empire (Venezuelan security threat edition)
  13. The Quick and Clean Guide to Fixing the Economy (Keynesian Stimulus #2)
  14. When Keynesian Stimulus Works
  15. Fundraising Update: 2 articles a week reached, with a push can make 5 articles a week
  16. Problems with Non-Fiction Today
  17. Fundraising Update: Three-quarters of the way to 2 Significant Articles a week
  18. How We Can Change Our Destiny As A Society
  19. A negative interest rate world? Why?
  20. The Right Thing to Do: Homeless edition
  21. Donation Drive: Set the Schedule for 2015

February 2015

  1. The future
  2. The Problem with Basic Income
  3. Do Tsipras and Syriza want to resist Austerity?
  4. Did Syriza get owned?
  5. Ukraine and the perils of lack of commitment
  6. Syriza and Greece Seem to Have Been Owned
  7. Why We Should Want the Return of a Two World System
  8. Russia Creates Its Own Payment System
  9. Revolution Revisited
  10. Sneering that there is no runaway inflation misses the point
  11. Revolution?
  12. This ain’t Wonderland, this is Ferguson, Missouri, antechamber of Hell
  13. The nature of a corporation and how it changed in the 1980s
  14. Economic mal-distribution and the catastrophes it ends in
  15. The burning of the Jordanian pilot
  16. The Greek Pivot East and the Future of Greece In Europe
  17. My thought in two compendia

January 2015

  1. The Venezuela edition of “imports will kill’ya”
  2. Is Declining Violence Only A Good Thing?
  3. So, the Separatists are now on the offensive in the Ukraine
  4. Yes Virginia all that money printing did show up as inflation
  5. People are very strange: murder edition
  6. Let’s Talk Turkey About Greece
  7. A few notes on the economy
  8. Why is Privilege the wrong word?
  9. The Effect of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks Will Be Less Freedom
  10. Charlie Hebdo and the Moral Moment
  11. In Light of Charlie Hebdo, are some lives worth more than others?
  12. Extinction or Whole World Totalitarianism Events
  13. On Prostitution
  14. Thoughts on the Year that Was and the World to Come

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December 2014

  1. Armed forces should not interfere in politcs
  2. Merry Christmas
  3. Torture creates enemies and radicalizes people
  4. The murder of two NY policemen in retaliation—
  5. Dogs used to rape prisoners at Bagram?
  6. Exchange Rates 101
  7. Collapse of oil prices and the Russian Ruble
  8. America’s Depraved Leadership Has Created a Depraved Population
  9. The Ethics of Torture 101
  10. The CIA Torture Report
  11. In Light of Eric Garner

November 2014

  1. Ferguson and the brokenness of America’s “Justice” System
  2. A word on Abenomics, QE and doing Stimulus right
  3. Why the Sharing Economy is Destroying Prosperity
  4. Character as Personal Destiny
  5. The End of the American Dream and How Democratic Apologists are Creating It
  6. The Secret Democratic Plan to Win!
  7. Falling Oil Prices Are Mostly Bad News
  8. Two Charts Show Why the Obama Economy Sucks
  9. Are you going to be thirsty or hungry in the future?
  10. The Internet Makes Real Organizing Harder (Technology and Prosperity #2)

October 2014

  1. What Toronto’s Election Means for Progressive Viability
  2. The Attack In Ottawa will be used to justify losing more rights
  3. The Technology of Violence and its effect on prosperity and freedom
  4. How Ebola Aerosolized in Pigs Could Kill Millions
  5. How To Stop Deliberate Fouling of Aquifers by Frackers
  6. The Coming Global Recession and the Remaking of the World
  7. Japan refuses to eliminate agricultural tariffs, and spikes the TPP (Take 2)
  8. Why Ebola is a threat
  9. The Ongoing Wildlife Holocaust

September 2014

  1. Looks like Scottish Independence is a “No”
  2. Scotland, England and Hegemonic States
  3. Obama’s Speech on War with the Islamic State
  4. On Truth and Burning Bridges
  5. Rumors of the Ukrainian Rebels demise
  6. Rumors of my demise

August 2014

  1. The End of the Rebels in the Ukraine and the Ukraine’s Future
  2. Japanification and the end of the American Dream
  3. Belief
  4. It seems the Kurds had to retreat because they ran out of ammo
  5. Russian Sanctions against the West
  6. Kurdish Peshmerga fail to hold Sinjar Mountains
  7. Enough Russian Roulette with Nuclear Fire

July 2014

  1. Life is a Toy, Not a Game
  2. The Beginning of an End of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance
  3. To Summarize the Israeli/Gaza War
  4. Some actual serious sanctions proposed against Russia by the EU
  5. If China is with you, you are not isolated in the world
  6. Media Coverage of Israel’s killing of Palestinians
  7. The Barbarism of ISIL, the Taliban and Wahhabism and collapse of hegemonic ideology
  8. It really is kind of Israel to help Hezbollah
  9. Yellen tells American Industry not to produce jobs or good wages
  10. Why Bookstores live or die
  11. A Transcript of Abu Bakr’s Speech
  12. The Ubiquity and Importance of Operant Conditioning
  13. Some Lessons of Meditation

June 2014

  1. Israel
  2. Have Sanction Threats Brought Russia to Heel?
  3. Stirling Newberry on Post-America
  4. Matters of Character
  5. Developments in Iraq
  6. Military Effectiveness: ISIS, Taliban, Hezbollah
  7. Many Sunnis are already returning to Mosul
  8. Al-Sistani calls on followers to fight ISIS
  9. The West Should Just Stop Intervening
  10. When the terrorists treat you better than the government
  11. I guess the Tea Party isn’t finished
  12. American Society is Pathological
  13. Egypt: those who make peaceful change impossible —
  14. Fighting in the Ukraine
  15. Why a Book On Economic Prosperity is still needed

May 2014

  1. The Result of Austerity and Neo-Liberalism is the Rise of the Neo-Fascist Right
  2. The Russia China Axis continues to form
  3. Choice vs. Predestination
  4. Doing Well by Doing Good
  5. Equal Rights to Profit from Impoverishing People and Causing a Great Extinction Event
  6. And the Ukraine Sanctions heat up
  7. What Confucius Teaches Those Who Want a Better World
  8. Human Nature for Ideology
  9. Guerrilla Warfare: The Way of the Weak
  10. Comparative Military Dominance and the End of American Hegemony
  11. Does Russia invade the Ukraine?

April 2014

  1. Moving this week, so posting will be light
  2. If I were a Russian Strategist I’d say “invade the Ukraine”
  3. The Prelude to the End of the American Era
  4. Why Nations Can’t Resist Austerity
  5. Do NOT take Western Help for your “revolution”
  6. The problems of social sciences
  7. You want a good internet economy with lots of jobs? Here’s How.
  8. Clown College as the Ukrainian military effort “sputters”
  9. Democracy and Size? Can a populous democracy work?
  10. The Rapid Destructon of Countries
  11. Ukraine Counterattacks
  12. “Pro-Russian Militias” Seize Police Stations and a City
  13. Markets and Competitive Markets
  14. As Egypt Continues its hard slide to Despotism
  15. Russia claims American Mercs are in the Ukraine
  16. Humor in the Ukraine
  17. The First Real Russian Retaliation for American Sanctions
  18. The Decline of Europe
  19. The Endless Apologia
  20. Things Are Different Now

March 2014

  1. Ukraine’s Unelected Government Imposes IMF Austerity
  2. The Age of the Obvious: Thomas Piketty’s Capital
  3. How China Can End American Hegemony
  4. The Surveillance State is About Power, by Matt Stoller
  5. Why is Crimea Such a Great Crisis? It Shouldn’t Be.
  6. We already have rationing coupons
  7. You will never, again, have a good economy for ordinary people so long as this continues
  8. The Crimean Referendum of Independence
  9. The Tyranny of Money
  10. Putin’s RT Interview
  11. Your Theory of Human Nature Predicts Your Policies
  12. Economic Theories are Prescriptive, not Descriptive
  13. Western and Russian Hypocrisy on Crimea
  14. The Chinese Solution to the Ukrainian Problem
  15. “Consequences” for Russia over the Ukraine
  16. The 2012 IMF/Ukraine Negotiations
  17. Does Sprint Nuclear Ability Matter? How much? Ukraine Edition
  18. Some Perspective on Russian Intervention in the Ukraine

February 2014

  1. So Much for the Crimea
  2. Corruption, Don’t Talk To Me About Corruption
  3. This Ukraine Stuff Writes Itself
  4. Ethical Priorities: frack, kill, keep people homeless
  5. The Golden Rule: Why Bankers Are In Charge
  6. Scenarios for Ukraine’s Future
  7. A Few Words on the Ukraine
  8. Rational People Sell Out: WhatsApp Edition
  9. Social Identity Markers are NOT a proxy for left wing social policies
  10. I’ve never understood why people care what the CBO says
  11. 147 Companies control 40% of the World Economy
  12. The World Through Vladimir Putin’s Eyes
  13. The Comcast/Time Warner Merger
  14. Fundraiser Succesful
  15. Last Day of Fundraising Drive: $70 from an article a weekday
  16. Fundraising Update – $1,000 from an article every weekday
  17. The Disposable Economy
  18. Our Choices

January 2014

  1. Increasing the Minimum Wage
  2. Fundraising Update: Two-thirds of the way to 2 Significant Articles a week
  3. The Four Principles of Prosperity
  4. Donation Drive: Set the Schedule for 2014
  5. The Future of War in the Developed World
  6. Bitcoin is not optimized for privacy
  7. How to resist in a surveillance state
  8. The Chimerical Growth of GDP and Privatization
  9. 98.1% Approval For Egypt’s New Constitution?
  10. Helping the Most Discriminated Against
  11. Creating a Prosperous Society Where People Love Their Work
  12. The problem of resistance to the oligarchy
  13. Ariel Sharon
  14. We Don’t Want an Economy Which Produces Lots of Money
  15. The Power Parable
  16. There is no problem related to economic justice more important than this one
  17. I was interviewed Thursday at 9pm EST on climate change, surveillance and our economic and political future
  18. The worst thing you can say to American left wingers
  19. The Death Bet
  20. Happy New Year

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December 2013

  1. Women in combat
  2. Hope you’re all having a good Christmas
  3. Living in a rich society
  4. The Fed’s Taper Decision
  5. Extinction is Guaranteed if We Do Not Colonize Space
  6. Partial Transcript of My Talk
  7. The 90/10 rule as applied to medical practitioners
  8. Mandela’s NeoLiberal Compromise
  9. Stirling Newberry Could Use Some Books
  10. Mandela Was a Terrorist
  11. The UK is a Propaganda Society
  12. Why China Banned Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
  13. European Union Tells Banks To Commit Fraud Again
  14. DDOS Attacks Effective: Omidyar
  15. A Challenge To the No Fly List
  16. Grace and the Cycle of Abuse

November 2013

  1. Just forbid most retail stores from opening on holidays
  2. A Meditation on Love and Friendship
  3. Too Much Money Chasing The Wrong Returns
  4. The Perversion and Senesence of Great Ideas
  5. Stirling Update
  6. What Economy?
  7. How the structure of everyday life creates sociopathic corporate leaders
  8. I’ll be on Virtually Speaking Tonight at 9pm EST
  9. The Obamacare Fiasco
  10. The Role of Violence and Coercion in Saving the World
  11. What is an economy?
  12. Jerome Armstrong’s Oral History of the Dean and Clark Movements
  13. Jerome Armstrong: A blogger is the first follower, not the leader
  14. Why Obama And Democrats Don’t Do Much of What Liberals Want (Netroots Failure: Part 2)

October 2013

  1. The Bailout Caused the Sucky “Recovery”
  2. Progressive Blog #Fail: Moral Failure or Demographic Doom?
  3. Jerome Armstrong on the Failure of the Netroots
  4. A brief note on why the progressive blog movement failed
  5. 44 Explicit Points on Creating a Better World
  6. How to Create a Viable Ideology
  7. Baseline Predictions for the Next Sixty Odd Years
  8. An Old Gypsy Story
  9. If there is a default it is because both Obama and Republicans want it
  10. Why The Republicans Shut The Government Down and Threaten the Debt Ceiling
  11. (CORRECTED) If the Republican Bill were to Pass…
  12. The Individual Mandate and the Government Shutdown

September 2013

  1. Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia Caused the Nairobi Mall Attack
  2. Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
  3. Let’s Talk American Public Responsibility for Torture and Iraq
  4. Historical cancer indidence rates controlled for age
  5. Shorter Federal Reserve: The Economy Breathes Sort of OK if We Keep it On Life Support
  6. Emptywheel is fundraising
  7. Late nineteenth and early 20th century intellectual roots
  8. Putin Stings America

August 2013

  1. The intolerance of genius
  2. Twain’s War Prayer
  3. The difference between Obama going to war with Syria and Bush going to war with Iraq
  4. The Real Reason the US and UK will attack Syria
  5. Surveillance States and the End of Freedom
  6. Need help with finding old Bop News Articles (aka. bleg)
  7. All registered users will have to re-register Thursday August 15th
  8. Why Egypt’s Regime Must Double Down
  9. The Beauty of Obama’s Clapper Appointment
  10. Because you all come here because of my taste in music
  11. Why Jeff Bezos Purchased the Washington Post
  12. Bin Laden’s insights and the Egyptian Coup
  13. Employment and Economic situation in a nutshell
  14. Snowden, Manning and the role of government secrecy

July 2013

  1. People can believe pretty much anything

June 2013

  1. Start from common humanity
  2. On Islam, Religion and Love
  3. The comment thread you should read
  4. Michael Hastings
  5. The Syrian Civil War
  6. The Logic of the Surveillance State
  7. Rudeness to Politicians
  8. Yeah, rape < Hacking to out rapists
  9. Heckling Mrs. Obama is entirely productive
  10. Stirling Newberry

May 2013

  1. Brief comments on the Syrian civil war
  2. Ethics 101, Part 3: Forseeable Consequences
  3. Ethical Degradation
  4. The Moral Calculus of the Woolwich Murder
  5. Interview on causes for hope, fracking, global warming and the surveillance state
  6. On Bangladesh’s Textile Disasters
  7. Closing Guantanamo

April 2013

  1. Listen to my interview with Jay Ackroyd
  2. Speaking with Jay Ackroyd on the Security State Tonight at 9pm EDT
  3. Boston is the end result of a broken system
  4. Brief Comments on the Boston Bombing

March 2013

  1. Why Hackers Get More Jail Time Than Rapists
  2. Go Zen: Drop Deserve and Take Responsibility
  3. Overruling NYC’s Ban on Large Sodas
  4. The Cassandra Complex
  5. Rand Paul’s Filibuster
  6. The Keys to Prosperity
  7. The Sequester is a Good Thing

February 2013

  1. The Hidden Army: Hezbollah Teaches the World How to Fight
  2. On Economic Justice
  3. Bootstrapping
  4. The Logic of Surveillance
  5. A reminder
  6. The coming catastrophes and the Rawlsian veil of ignorance

January 2013

  1. Iraq wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for oil, and Aaron Swartz died for oil too
  2. Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
  3. Sweden v. Canada: Taxation and Inequality
  4. Fire Ortiz, the prosecutor who hounded Aaron Swartz
  5. To know what to do is not enough

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December 2012

  1. Christ-mas
  2. On Killing Sprees
  3. The Reagan Play

November 2012

  1. Interview available for listening
  2. Interview tonight at 9pm EST
  3. The Gaza Reminder
  4. Another note on Republicans
  5. Some Words on the Republican Party
  6. Some Personal Thoughts
  7. On Flanders Field
  8. Reality about America’s Future
  9. The Left Wing Case Against Obama and Obama’s Next Term

October 2012

  1. Forest for the trees on the job #s
  2. Drones are not weapons of the powerful
  3. Woops

September 2012

  1. Comments on the cost of Iraq
  2. QE 3
  3. Respect for international law and America
  4. Bleg
  5. The DNC
  6. Some basics on the economy

August 2012

  1. Arthur Silber could use some help
  2. To say that people must never revolt violently is to say America’s founding was illegitimate
  3. Horse to water
  4. Assange and Wikileaks: the basics
  5. Pinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain wouldn’t extradite him

July 2012

  1. Police
  2. The best news this year is the Court of Justice of the European Union upholding doctrine of first sale
  3. I wonder how much Ashley Fantz of CNN gets paid to mislead readers?

June 2012

  1. To point out the obvious on today’s Supreme Court Decision on the ACA
  2. Greek election consequences and the shape of the developed world’s future
  3. Stop bailing out banks
  4. The Scott Walker recall fails
  5. Oil Prices and the economy for the next year to a year and a half
  6. Yes, Canada has Dutch Disease

May 2012

  1. My sympathy is about out
  2. What’s left of the economy will roll off a cliff
  3. Human Moral Weakness and its consequences
  4. Will a man on horseback come to rule America?
  5. The left will have its chance in Europe

April 2012

  1. The US does not have justice or even the rule of law
  2. The police state of the future
  3. Is the individual mandate really the hill progressives want to die on?

March 2012

  1. Observations on Canadian NDP leader Mulcair and the politics of class
  2. It is in blood that empires, like humans, are born, it is in blood that they die (reprint)

February 2012

  1. On Stratfor
  2. Justified Pessimism
  3. Sewage
  4. The Musical Chairs Economy
  5. Next Steps for Greeks after the Austerity Bill (AKA: Hope for Greece, at last)

January 2012

  1. Is it possible to be stupider than Gloria Feldt, Former Head of Planned Parenthood?
  2. The Blindingly Obvious About Obama, 2013, Europe, Iran and so on
  3. The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
  4. Ron Paul Hysteria

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December 2011

  1. You don’t get the payroll tax “cut”
  2. Yes, the American people are responsible
  3. Do not judge public figures on how “nice” they are
  4. RIP Christopher Hitchens
  5. There’s a hardly a “progressive” alive who isn’t a moron or a sellout
  6. Perhaps the Only Thing Cameron Will Ever Do That I Agree With
  7. Why MF Global Collapsed
  8. How to lie with headlines – NY Times edition
  9. The blindingly obvious about the proposed fiscal union in Europe

November 2011

  1. Public opinion is irrelevant
  2. What’s happening in Europe is what matters: rules of the financial rich
  3. The Occupy Education Continues
  4. In Flanders Fields
  5. How OWS actually works
  6. What passes for smart on the Greek Debt Crisis

October 2011

  1. Education and retaliation in OWS
  2. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
  3. I see the police are providing an education
  4. Revolution Basics #1: Who cares what you think?
  5. I see the “progressive” begging class
  6. Ontario Liberals Win
  7. Liz Warren decides to lose to Scott Brown
  8. Why the weak dollar policy won’t work
  9. From a historical point of view
  10. Occupy Wall Street vs. “Save the Middle Class”

September 2011

  1. The reason many liberal and progressive elites
  2. The literature of our time: Memoirs
  3. The minds of China’s elites tend to get concentrated by such events…
  4. The Fed 400 Billion “Twisting”
  5. Tax Increases on the Rich
  6. How to fix Europe’s Financial Crisis
  7. 9/11
  8. Ontario NDP leader promises no income tax raises
  9. The Short on the President’s “Job Plan”

August 2011

  1. The basics
  2. Again, the absolute inability to consider obvious solutions
  3. RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party Leader
  4. The Next President of the US
  5. Unbelievable disrespect to a black man in Britain
  6. Socially how the next 20 odd years will play out
  7. Hard and Complicated Aren’t Synonyms
  8. The monopoly of violence and simple solutions to supposedly insoluble problems
  9. Innocents were already being hurt in Britain
  10. How many of you would have to die in police custody before you rioted?
  11. London Riots #3: Context
  12. London Burning #2
  13. The London riots
  14. Comments on the S&P Downgrade
  15. If you’re pro-Obama you’re an idiot, on the payroll, or evil

July 2011

  1. What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You
  2. Boehner’s plan has 900 billion in cuts
  3. Predicted August 2nd 2008
  4. Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst president in American History
  5. More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiation”
  6. Earbugs
  7. Thank God for our enemies
  8. If anything like the Gang of Six austerity plan passes
  9. Marcy Wheeler, aka. Emptywheel, has a new home
  10. So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the lesser evil?
  11. Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually Speaking Tonight at 9pm Easter
  12. On Social Security Cuts
  13. Deserve: the deadliest word
  14. I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand

June 2011

  1. One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cuomo and the Gay Rights Movement
  2. Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on “your side”
  3. Less Cuomo Fellation please
  4. The Psychiatric Drug Industry
  5. The shiny
  6. Strategies for Resistance and Change
  7. Stephen Moss tells us the powerful do as they will and the weak can suck it up
  8. The Depression and the future
  9. Moral Monster Test
  10. Use the D word

May 2011

  1. Virtually Speaking with Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh
  2. Illness and the price of prosperity
  3. Looting Greece while the Greeks Riot
  4. Why The Assassination Strategy Doesn’t Work
  5. More Concrete Bin Laden #’s
  6. Our Depravity
  7. Conservatives Win Majority
  8. The Canadian Election
  9. Osama’s Death Changes Almost Nothing

April 2011

  1. On the NDP Surge in Canada
  2. A blast from the past and a reminder about the future
  3. A bit more on hedonic adjustments
  4. Core CPI is exactly the wrong thing to watch
  5. The Budget and Obama’s Speech
  6. An update on the effect of the price of shipping oil and tax on exports
  7. Obama to Right Wing
  8. Lambert and Corrente Need Help
  9. In Light of the Budget Deal: Obama’s Personality
  10. When Medicare is destroyed is only a matter of when

March 2011

  1. 1984 Was Not A Manual
  2. No Free Lunch
  3. Burning down your house to generate heat
  4. Off to London

February 2011

  1. Police moving to clear the WI capital (Or Are They?) – Apparently not
  2. A bit more on the oil trap
  3. European leaders draft a “competitiveness” treaty meant to lower wages and cut pensions
  4. One way the price of oil hurts the economy
  5. Wisdom
  6. Oil passes $119/barrel
  7. Wisconsin: teach some politicians a lesson by ending their careers
  8. Talkin’bout a General Strike in Wisconsin
  9. Some thoughts on revolutions in the Middle East, China… and the West
  10. You don’t always get what you vote for
  11. Elites continue to be mad for draining ordinary citizens
  12. Rule for pundits: If you talk up cutting “entitlements” without mentioning defense you’re a dishonest hack
  13. Mubarak gone, military takes charge
  14. AOL Buys Huffpo
  15. Master and Slave Morality
  16. The Egyptian Bottom Line
  17. It’s time for Egyptians
  18. Andrew Cuomo: Evil or Stupid?

January 2011

  1. Some Points About Egypt
  2. Will the military join the people in Egypt?
  3. Egypt, Revolutions and Food
  4. Ireland: With left wing parties like these, who needs right wing parties?
  5. Carl Safina’s “View From Lazy Point”: Expanding the circle of compassion ever out
  6. Independents Return to Obama…
  7. You now have a year to a year and a half at most before the next economic meltdown
  8. Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
  9. Dear Software Writers
  10. Ideologies have overlap
  11. Why I’m Against Current Wars—and Most Foreseeable Wars, Too
  12. The right wing isn’t going to stop violent rhetoric
  13. Two bloggers who could use a helping hand

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December 2010

  1. Centrists don’t want to the do the right thing
  2. To all a Merry Christmas
  3. I am now an American Express Cardholder because of Wikileaks
  4. Because a lot of so-called Liberals don’t seem to get it
  5. Why DADT Repeal Will Pass and Dream Won’t
  6. The Kabuki Congress and Presidency
  7. Why Assange and Wikileaks have won this round
  8. What is legal and what is just are two different things
  9. An American Future
  10. Wikileaks will either be done as Assange does it or not at all
  11. Wikileaks And The End of the Open Internet
  12. Obama isn’t about compromise

November 2010

  1. Leadership
  2. Off to Vegas tomorrow
  3. The real reason for grope-athon and porn-scanners
  4. The cost of being cheap
  5. Wow, A Sherrif Who Does His Goddamn Job Even Against Banks
  6. Labor accepting permanent defeat?
  7. Wiping out property law and destroying counties to save the banks
  8. Hope
  9. Bush would have endorsed Obama if asked
  10. In Flanders Field
  11. The economic trap the 1st world is in
  12. Death and Rebirth of a Republic
  13. Jobs make break even point
  14. Obama did NOT save the US From a Depression
  15. The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today
  16. Why Democrats Lost for Complete Idiots
  17. Election Open Thread
  18. How Appropriate that Acorn should file for bankruptcy as Dems take a bath

October 2010

  1. Khadr sentenced to 40 years
  2. If you’ve lost Jerome Armstrong…
  3. The Blogger Meeting With Obama
  4. China’s entire military budget about equal to US spy spending
  5. Gulf Dispersants Still Making People Sick
  6. Cowardly Republicans attack woman
  7. This is what happens when you bail out the rich
  8. Personal Attacks and Trolling in Comment Threads
  9. How the Next 4 Years Will Play out
  10. Praying for the French
  11. No the rich aren’t like you
  12. Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
  13. You can generally count on Obama…
  14. Washington State May Cut Medicaid Drug Benefits
  15. Apparently Axelrod and the Administration Want a Democratic Wipeout
  16. How the Foreclosure mess would play out in an actual Republic Of Law and an actual Free Market
  17. Objectively worse off under Obama
  18. Republic of Men Rather Than Laws
  19. Is America past the point of no return economically?
  20. Corrente is fundraising

September 2010

  1. Leftists Should Take Credit for Bringing Down Democrats
  2. I Trust It Is Now Clear Democrats Hate The Left
  3. Tax Cuts for the rich create jobs outside the US
  4. One of the silver linings of the State tax crisis
  5. What the Primaries mean
  6. Yes Virginia, SS can be cut
  7. When Labor Is Strong Democrats Win…
  8. Jan 19th: “In 2010 Democrats will be slaughtered”
  9. With stupid like this, who needs Republicans
  10. Sean-Paul Lays it out: the Truth baby
  11. Ian on Blog Talk Radio
  12. Ian Welsh on Virtually Speaking Tonight at 9pm EST

August 2010

  1. What Can Obama Really Do?
  2. Liberals aren’t real people—or crazy
  3. No, the Fed doesn’t need to “press” Credit Card companies to live up to the law
  4. The “Mosque” controversy and bigotry
  5. State of the Economy
  6. Idiots get around to noticing that Dems may have problems in mid terms
  7. Tai Chi better for Fibromyalgia than drugs
  8. Oh for God’s Sake: US combat troops have NOT left Iraq
  9. The Freedom Mosque
  10. Politico notices Hispanics Leaving Democrats
  11. Fed to print more money
  12. No We Aren’t In A Recession, We’re In a Depression
  13. Brutal Animation of Unemployment Rates
  14. Romer resigns the day before economy sheds 131,000 jobs
  15. Social Security Trustees Report: No Social Security Crisis
  16. How To Help Homeowners
  17. Obama Claims Right to not just assassinate American citizens without trial but to deny them the right to a lawyer
  18. Go Read Stirling on Japanification
  19. Stating the Obvious: Obama wants to gut social security

July 2010

  1. Netroots Schizo
  2. Moronic Facebook Security
  3. Off to Vegas
  4. Of Course Politicians Don’t Listen to Ordinary Citizens. Why Would They?
  5. Geithner and the White House’s Panglossian Never-Never Land
  6. War on Iran?
  7. Blaming the blogosphere for Democratic Failures
  8. Your Liberal Media
  9. How to be a big pundit
  10. Democrats Face 200 million Republican War Chest Without the Strong Allies They Should Have
  11. Another journalist down for saying something “inappropriate”
  12. UNIFIL presence in Lebanon will increase civilian casualties
  13. Serious People Notice Banks Are Gouging Consumers and Tanking the Economy
  14. American War Economics 101
  15. America cannot be America at perpetual war
  16. How’s that Mid Term Looking ?
  17. Actually Afghanistan is a war of choice
  18. Happy Canada Day

June 2010

  1. How bailing out the rich created the Depression
  2. What Actually Happened at the G20 Protests
  3. G20 Confers on how to make you pay for the rich’s blunders
  4. The Housing Bubble Was Based On Fraud
  5. The Court Eunuch Standard of Blogging Exposed by Dave Weigel’s Resignation
  6. The bloody obviousness of most good predictions
  7. Helping “Terrorists” Engage In Anything Non-Terroristic Can Get You Locked up for 15 Years
  8. Catching Up with the Obama Dilemma
  9. Enough with the Sanctimony over Israel, Jews, Palestine and the Holocaust
  10. Not Fighting Alito and Roberts Mean the End of Your Democracy
  11. A Gaffe: saying the truth in the worst way possible
  12. America’s Future Now: We have to get the public to support us to make Obama do the right thing
  13. One reason why Hooverism is on the rise
  14. Making videoing cops illegal doesn’t make the US a police state, honest
  15. The Jobs Report and the Future
  16. What would Turkey’s NATO allies do in the case of a Turkish/Israeli throwdown?

May 2010

  1. Holy Sweet Lord, Turkey has announced they will send another flotilla to Gaza—escorted by the Turkish Navy!
  2. Israel’s Three Endgames
  3. Massive Small Business Insurance Rate Hikes In California
  4. What’s Life For?
  5. As the Euro and the Pound come under pressure bend over and kiss Europe’s economy goodbye
  6. The Gulf Oil Spill Shows What America Has Become
  7. What Left?
  8. Crunch Time: Two Economic Scenarios for the rest of the year
  9. Discretionary Budget Priorities
  10. No, The Feds don’t want the public to know the extent of the gusher
  11. Heading to America’s Future Now Conference
  12. The End of the Beginning In Thailand
  13. The Thinker Americans Don’t Listen To
  14. Global Warming: A localized pause and then the end of our civilization
  15. Climate Change: A fighting retreat
  16. Obama, Congress and Bernanke did not save the world from a Great Depression
  17. Actual Good News
  18. Cramming Down Social Security is not a partiticularly “politically difficult decision”
  19. The difference between money and the productive economy
  20. Small Traders are Guppies for the Sharks (aka: banks)
  21. Another Progressive pundit clueless on the effect of unemployment on elections
  22. Oh Bullshit, Gay is not “something you call yourself”
  23. Goldman Sachs made money trading every single day last quarter
  24. Clarifying The Dow Drop And Its Consequences
  25. Off for a bit
  26. Greek Mistakes, European Misery and the Coming Decade of Suck
  27. The Lack of Netroots Enthusiasm for Progressive Candidates in Primaries
  28. What is Obama?
  29. Top Marginal Tax Rates

April 2010

  1. Tax Cuts are wasted
  2. Fiscal Sustainability Facts and Solutions
  3. Notes on the Fiscal Sustainability Conference
  4. Anti-depressants and ADHD meds worse than no medication for most patients
  5. Greek and European Insolvency
  6. Being Poor
  7. The Most Important Economic Question in the World Today
  8. Clueless About Oil: It isn’t going to stay fungible
  9. Communist Dictatorship China Reaffirms It Will Never Do a Nuclear First Strike, Unlike US
  10. Recissions and Denial of Care Under Obamacare
  11. Insuring Shadow Banks Without Proper Regulation Is Asking For Disaster
  12. The Tao of Experts: Credentialism and Paul Krugman
  13. Krugman is trivially right and essentially wrong
  14. Fighting Back Against the Drive to Slash Entitlements
  15. Why, Virginia, Would You Think the President Isn’t Willing to See Abortion Rights Slip Away?
  16. Taxing the Poor to Bail out the Rich
  17. What you need to understand about taxation and externalities
  18. American Exceptionalism: What Works Elsewhere Won’t Work In America
  19. Insanity is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results: Real Reform Means Reinstituting Glass-Steagall at Full Strength and Breaking Up Financial Conglomerates
  20. Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Blog Talk Radio
  21. Books which influenced me most
  22. Enough BS About “I can’t judge because I’ve never been a soldier”
  23. New Blogger
  24. Obligatory cautionary note on the employment #’s
  25. The American Death Wish
  26. How Futures Affect the Price of Oil
  27. The Non Debate Between Krugman and Johnson
  28. Radio Interview with Ian Welsh by Ken Rose
  29. The Oil Limit On This Recovery

March 2010

  1. A Republican Couldn’t Do This
  2. The Tea Party and the Ancien Regime
  3. The Question About HCR is Not…
  4. Progressive Enablers
  5. How To Save Abortion Rights
  6. Obama flexes his muscle
  7. Killing the Health Care Bill is Best
  8. Why would anyone think Obama wants to reshape the courts?
  9. Who does Obama think is going to support him in 2012?
  10. Worth more dead than alive—why and how credit default swaps need to be insured
  11. Kos Calls For Progressive Civil War
  12. Health care reform bottom line
  13. Shock Therapy in Greece
  14. Healthcare Wheel Spinning
  15. Losing 35K jobs is not good news
  16. Step one is always
  17. Why Financial Crises Will Keep Happening
  18. Not a Double Dip, A Second DownLeg

February 2010

  1. The Beach
  2. Lowest Bank Lending since
  3. America’s Future: My Baseline Scenario
  4. The Modern American Way
  5. The Fed’s Increase in the Discount Rate
  6. The assassination question
  7. The assassination strategy
  8. Not Having Kids
  9. The best article on America’s Elite
  10. To Fix America
  11. Paul Craig Roberts Speaks For Me
  12. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion
  13. Why a flat tax is a bad idea
  14. Good Manufacturing News
  15. Budget, teabaggers and slow posting

January 2010

  1. A Small Victory
  2. What Roberts Said
  3. In Light of the Decision To Allow Unlimited Corporate Money Into the System
  4. Ok, I keep underestimating Obama’s
  5. More Obama Stupidity
  6. China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020
  7. Looks like a test case to end abortion rights to me
  8. What Dave Said
  9. The Unvarnished Truth About the US
  10. A Smart Proposal From Volcker and Obama
  11. Lemmings Have Nothing On Democrats
  12. An optimist and a damned fool are the same thing
  13. Coakley Concedes, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
  14. Ummm, No
  15. Coakley Is A National Election
  16. An Observation On Haiti
  17. No carrots for lawmakers without sticks
  18. TARP Wasn’t All the Relief
  19. Back
  20. Want Something Fixed? Make Sure Important People Have Skin In the Game
  21. The Deeply Broken American Police System
  22. Traveling
  23. The Fact That You’re Offended Is Just Noise
  24. Incentives Do Not Work To Change Bank Behavior
  25. Banks In Britain Will Absorb Cost of 50% Bonus Tax
  26. Who is the Greatest Perpetrator of Evil in the World?
  27. Bubbles In the Wind
  28. Nice country you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it
  29. William James Welsh, 1929-2010
  30. Getting Ready for the next Disaster
  31. Caging a Nightingale
  32. Why Democrats Are Trying to Commit Electoral Suicide
  33. Number of Democrats thinking of not voting in 2010 up to 45%
  34. Happy New Year
  35. Remembering Alan Brown

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