The Curious Engineer

Ian Welsh

2018–2022

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2022 295

December 2022

  1. Open Thread
  2. How To Relax, Change & Be Free
  3. A Map Showing The Two Main Geopolitical Blocs
  4. A New Age Of Vertical Integration
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 25, 2022
  6. Merry Christmas
  7. Open Thread
  8. The Decline Of Facebook (Meta)
  9. Part III Of My Interview: Twitter and Reasons For Hope
  10. It’s Not Just About Climate Change, It’s About Ecological Collapse
  11. Consequences Of The End of Zero Covid In China
  12. Life In The Absence of Coercion
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 18, 2022
  14. Open Thread
  15. Imagine A World Where Violence Or Need Are Impossible
  16. Interview on Climate Change, the New Cold War and the Rise of China
  17. The Long Term Effects of Covid On the Economy Are Going To Be Devastating
  18. 2022 Fundraiser
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 11, 2022
  20. Open Thread
  21. Understanding Absolute Vs. Comparative Advantage & Why It Matters
  22. Podcast Interview On US Politics and the Midterms
  23. The Decline Of the European Garden
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 4, 2022
  25. Open Thread
  26. Is It Dangerous to Hit Targets Inside Russia?
  27. US House Passes Bill Forcing Railway Workers Not to Strike

November 2022

  1. China’s Zero-Covid Is the Right Policy Done Stupid (How China/The West Could Kill Covid)
  2. The Decline & Fall of the Soviet Union
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 27, 2022
  4. Open Thread
  5. Happy Thanksgiving
  6. Why Twitter Has Been Marvelous
  7. Politics Series: International Government and Relations
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 20, 2022
  9. Open Thread
  10. Can Boeing Still Make Planes?
  11. How We Created A Population Incapable Of Radical Change
  12. Every Covid Infection Does More Damage & Makes You Less Healthy and More Likely to Die
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 13, 2022
  14. Open Thread
  15. Losing the Power of the Printing Press
  16. The Great Favor the West Is Doing China by Banning Equipment Needed to Make Chips
  17. Election Discussion Open Thread
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 6, 2022
  19. Open Thread
  20. Growth Through Real Estate Bubbles v.s. Sustainable High Income Growth (China)
  21. None of This Had to Be: The Two Paths
  22. The Rules Based International Order is the Minority

October 2022

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 30, 2022
  2. Open Thread
  3. Climate change is getting worse, faster. It’s accelerating. What is required to change that?
  4. The Inflationary Consequences of Friendzoning and Decoupling
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 23, 2022
  6. Open Thread
  7. The Adderall Shortage Is Just the First Major Shortage
  8. Avoiding Added Emotional Suffering (Buddha’s Second Arrow)
  9. Rooming House Policy Positions of Candidates For Toronto Riding University-Rosedale
  10. How To Make Peace In Ukraine
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 16, 2022
  12. Open Thread
  13. Review of Wolfgang Streeck’s “How Will Capitalism End?”, by Marku52
  14. Covid Variants Continue Immune, Vaccine and Treatment Resistance Evolution
  15. Ukraine Is The First Major War Of The “Age of War and Revolution”
  16. Russia Hits Power Infrastructure
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 9, 2022
  18. Open Thread
  19. Addendum To My Fifteen Points On The Ukraine War
  20. Fifteen Points About the Future of the Ukraine War
  21. Rationality Is A Process, Not A Conclusion (Nuclear Weapons Edition)
  22. Vaccine And Mask Effectiveness
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 2, 2022
  24. Open Thread

September 2022

  1. America Defeats Germany Again, Europe Foolishly Helps
  2. The Attacks On Nord Stream I & II
  3. No The Solution To Ending Mandatory Masking Isn’t “Well YOU can still mask”
  4. How Peace In Ukraine Has Been Made Almost Impossible
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 25, 2022
  6. Open Thread
  7. Effects of the 300K Russian Mobilization
  8. Machiavelli On Putin
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 18, 2022
  10. Open Thread
  11. Understanding and Surviving the Post-Prosperity Era
  12. Lazy V.S. Uninterested & Quiet Quitting
  13. Solutions: Cash, The Unbanked, and Cashless Stores
  14. China “To Those Who Have Everything”
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 11, 2022
  16. Putin’s Personal Interests and the Interests of Russia Have Diverged & The Divergence Is Running The Ukraine War
  17. Open Thread
  18. The Life & Death Of Queen Elizabeth II
  19. When Is the Next Oil Driven Inflation Spike In the US? December to March.
  20. The Egalitarian Rift Which Doomed The New Chilean Constitution
  21. The Delusional Dishonesty of the G7 Russian Oil Price Cap
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 4, 2022
  23. Open Thread
  24. Mini Electronic Vacations

August 2022

  1. Ontario’s Mass Murdering “Top Doctor”
  2. Sweden’s Relative Performance In Covid
  3. Destruction of the Humanities & Social Sciences and Societal Mis-allocation of Resources
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 28, 2022
  5. Open Thread
  6. The Chinese and European Droughts & What They Mean For the Future
  7. Most Zero Sum Games Are Negative Sum & So Are Most Positive-Sum Games
  8. Weberian Meaningful Action & Why It Matters
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 21, 2022
  10. Open Thread
  11. The Trifecta+ Which Will Make The Next 100 Years Hell
  12. You Don’t Have To Be Upset
  13. Spring Of A Down, Chapters XVI-XVIII
  14. Collapse Of Water Supply For Countries Around Tibet
  15. The Espionage Act Is Bad Law Even When It Is Used Against People I Despise Like Trump
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 14, 2022
  17. Open Thread
  18. So Much Plastic Chemical Contamination in Rainwater It’s Unsafe to Drink
  19. The Basic Pattern to Most Meditation
  20. The Law of Equal Treatment
  21. How to Deal with Anxiety and Trauma Using Meditation
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 7, 2022
  23. Open Thread
  24. What Is Right for Those You Love Is Right for All
  25. When the Profit Motive Is Unnecessary or Harmful
  26. Spring Of A Down, By Stirling Newberry, Chapters XIII-XV
  27. Are Our Elites Starting to Get It?

July 2022

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 31, 2022
  2. Open Thread
  3. Correct Priorities in China’s Response to the Mortgage Boycott
  4. BA.5 Covid Is Incredibly Virulent and MonkeyPox Is in Exponential Growth
  5. China Jumps Two Chip Generations Ahead: Why Chip Sanctions Backfired
  6. Politics Series: Government
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 24, 2022
  8. Open Thread
  9. The European Position at the End of the Unipolar World
  10. Russia Turns Up the Pressure (and Turns Off the Gas) on Germany and the EU
  11. As the Sun Sets on the United Kingdom
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 17, 2022
  13. Open Thread
  14. The Debt Trap That Helped Take Down Sri Lanka Was Not Chinese
  15. How Standard Media Skews Public Understanding
  16. How To Think Clearly About Political and Social Issues
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 10, 2022
  18. Open Thread
  19. ATMs and Debit Payments Go Down In Canada
  20. Germany Is Being Crushed By “Anti-Russia” Sanctions
  21. Now That We’re At Peak, How Fast Will Civilization Collapse Be?
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 3, 2022
  23. Open Thread
  24. Sweden and Finland Sell Their Souls For NATO Membership
  25. Spring of Down, By Stirling Newberry, Chapters X-XII

June 2022

  1. One Chart To Predict The Future of Civilization Collapse
  2. The Next Covid Wave Is Onrushing
  3. Books and TV and Movies Are Mind Control
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 26, 2022
  5. Open Thread
  6. And Roe Is Gone: What’s Coming Up on the Chopping Block?
  7. Failures of Democracy & the Original Intellectual Fascist
  8. Lithuania, Kaliningrad, and NATO Article Five
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 19, 2022
  10. Open Thread
  11. Ukraine KIA 500-1,000 a Day
  12. From 2010: The Unvarnished Truth About the US
  13. Ways Capitalism May Be Destroyed
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 12, 2022
  15. Open Thread
  16. Smiling at Death
  17. Spring of Down, Chapters VII-IX, By Stirling Newberry
  18. Is Capitalism Near Its End?
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 5, 2022
  20. Open Thread
  21. The EU As The Epitome Of the Iron Cage of Bureaucracy
  22. Spring of Down, Chapters IV-VI, By Stirling Newberry

May 2022

  1. Collins Five Principles Of The Expansion And Collapse of Nations
  2. What will it take to stop asking why are there school shootings? By Marcus Gardner
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 29, 2022
  4. Open Thread
  5. How Gunpowder Ended the Middle Ages
  6. Spring of a Down, by Stirling Newberry, Chapters 1-3
  7. We Are Going To Go Thru Hell, So What Now?
  8. Refreshing Honesty About Bank Loans & Environmental Destruction
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 22, 2022
  10. Open Thread
  11. Personal Resilience, Gardens, Water And Heat
  12. Prologue of Spring of a Dawn, A Novella By Stirling Newberry
  13. Civilization Ending Long Covid Pt. 2 — 320K Long Term Sick In UK Labor Force
  14. Who Wins and Loses Because of the Ukraine War?
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 15, 2022
  16. Open Thread
  17. The Fed Wants To Crush Wages So Corporations Can Price Gouge
  18. The Democratic Bargain, Abortion and Responsibility
  19. Losing Roe And The New Dred Scott
  20. Does Zero Covid In China Work?
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 8, 2022
  22. Open Thread
  23. Immune And Vaccine Escape Covid Variants
  24. Civilization Ending Long Covid Levels?
  25. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 1, 2022

April 2022

  1. Open Thread
  2. The Possible Dire Consequences of NATO & Ukrainian Escalation
  3. Poland Refuses To Pay For Russian Gas In Rubles, Russia Cuts Them Off
  4. The Bottom Line On Ukraine As An Example Of Decision Analysis
  5. What Economics Gets Wrong (Almost Everything)
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 24, 2022
  7. Open Thread
  8. How Big Is The Chinese Economy Compared to The West?
  9. The Petrochemical Age In Context
  10. Standing With the Good Samaritan Against So Many “Christians”
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 17, 2022
  12. Open Thread
  13. Official Inflation vs. Real Inflation (Rent Edition)
  14. A Brief Summary of the Effects of Russia Sanctions
  15. Accountability #2: Sweden’s Decision to Let Old People Die Who Could Have Been Saved
  16. Is Putin Conducting a “Stalinist” Purge of Russia’s Intelligence Service?
  17. Macron (Radical Neoliberal) vs. Le Pen (Reactionary Fascist) in France
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 10, 2022
  19. Open Thread
  20. The US. Europe, China And the New Poorer Western World
  21. Simple Ethics For Groups And Individuals
  22. Another Stock Up Moment
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 3, 2022
  24. Open Thread

March 2022

  1. Putin’s Goals, A Map, For Discussion
  2. Reorienting About How Well Russia Is Doing In Ukraine
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 27, 2022
  4. Open Thread
  5. March of De-Dollarization: Russia Selling In Rubles
  6. Clarity on Putin’s Aims
  7. Whataboutism, Justice And What To Do When We’re As Guilty As Russia
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 20, 2022
  9. Open Thread
  10. The Features of Good Leadership In Societies & Large Groups
  11. Russian Debt Default + Consequences, Simply Explained
  12. The Superpower of Admitting the Obvious
  13. Three Lessons from the Melian Dialogue Which Apply Today
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 13, 2022
  15. Open Thread
  16. What Is Our Plan C if Sanctions and the Guerilla Trap Don’t Take Out Russia?
  17. Finally, Proof of the Obvious About Schools & Masks
  18. Ukraine Through the Lens of an Honor or Mafia Society
  19. Guerrilla Warfare: The Way of the Weak
  20. Thinking Out Ukraine Sanctions
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 6, 2022
  22. Open Thread
  23. Three Principles for Ukraine & for Great Power Politics
  24. Ukraine and the Coming Inflation
  25. The China Trap
  26. Ukraine: The Ethical Dimension & Sanction Decision Making

February 2022

  1. What the West and Russia Want in Ukraine & the “Good” Result for Ukraine
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 27, 2022
  3. Open Thread
  4. Putin Looks to Win Both the War & the Peace
  5. Calm and Perspective About Ukraine
  6. Putin Is Running the Georgian and Kosovo Playbook in Ukraine
  7. Why Are UK Sanctions on Ruissia So Small?
  8. The Emergency Act in Canada
  9. How to Understand Russia’s Playbook in the Ukraine
  10. Is Trudeau an Authoritarian for Using POGG Powers Against the Truckers?
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 20, 2022
  12. If Russia Invades
  13. Open Thread
  14. How to Keep Enforcers Like Police, the Military, and Spies Under Control
  15. The Pro-Death Lobby & Pro-Death Protesters
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 13, 2022
  17. Open Thread
  18. Why the Left Doesn’t Copy the Truck Protests
  19. The Decline and Fall of Post-war Liberalism and the Rise of Neoliberalism
  20. Democracy Cannot Survive Hegemonic Capitalism
  21. On the Canadian Trucker Occupations
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy –February 6, 2022
  23. Open Thread
  24. The Ukraine Crisis Is Speeding Up Arrival of Cold War
  25. Omicron “Couldn’t Be Controlled”
  26. Work & School Are Fundamentally Awful for Most People

January 2022

  1. The Most Contagious Virus in History Just Became 50% More Contagious
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 30, 2022
  3. Open Thread
  4. The Ukraine Crisis Is Just a Chance to Acknowledge Choices Already Made
  5. The Joy of Reading & the Discovery of a New Author (Nero Wolfe Edition)
  6. The Psychological Difficulty of Radicalization
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 23, 2022
  8. Open Thread
  9. Western Australia Proves Basic Pandemic Control Methods Would Have Stopped Covid
  10. Politics Series: Power
  11. China’s Economic Plans Amount to Preparation for Cold War
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 16, 2022
  13. Open Thread
  14. Calling My Shot on Letting Omicron Rip
  15. Mass Democratic Legitimacy Loss from Mass Disabling
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 9, 2022
  17. Open Thread
  18. Covid and China’s Victory
  19. Canada’s Pathetic Preparations for US Collapse or Fascist Takeover
  20. Again, on Omicron & “Just Give Up and Let Everyone Get It”
  21. 2021 Fundraiser Successful and Over
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 2, 2022
  23. Open Thread

2021 295

December 2021

  1. Audio Recordings of “Political Concepts” to Chapter 3
  2. CDC Jumps the Shark & Experts Die Another Death
  3. Fundraising Update: Last Tier Reached
  4. Why Ukraine in NATO Is a Red Line for Russia
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 26, 2021
  6. Merry Christmas—
  7. Taking Omicron Seriously
  8. On Respirators, Masks, and Getting Through the Pandemic
  9. Matching Funds Reached, Thank You
  10. $600 Matching Donations + Fundraiser Update
  11. Today’s Center Is Yesterday’s Extreme
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 19, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. Get Ready for More Shutdowns
  15. Meat Packer Profits Up 300%
  16. The Economy: Politics Series VII
  17. “Trump Did More for Me than Biden Ever Did”
  18. A Quick Understanding of Inflation and Current Supply Chain Issues
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 12, 2021
  20. Open Thread
  21. Elementary School Covid Outbreaks in Ontario
  22. Fundraising Update: Slow, But Hit a Tier
  23. Under What Circumstances Is Russia Likely to Invade the Ukraine?
  24. Fred Hiatt and the Terrible Quandry of Elite Journalism
  25. Power, Pleasure, and Evil
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 5, 2021
  27. Open Thread
  28. The Simplest Way to Control Consciousness
  29. Environment: Politics Series Chapter VI
  30. What Would Chinese Democracy Look Like?

November 2021

  1. A Few Words About the Omicron Covid Variant
  2. That Poisoned Land
  3. Groups and Coalitions: Politics Chapter V
  4. Reading List
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 28, 2021
  6. Open Thread
  7. Fundraising Update
  8. A Few Words On Thanksgiving
  9. The Terror Of Electronic Money
  10. Identity: Political Concepts Chapter 4
  11. The Ongoing Depression Which Started in 2008
  12. Comment Moderation
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 21, 2021
  14. 2021 Fundraiser
  15. Open Thread
  16. Ideology: Political Concepts Chapter 3
  17. Legitimacy (Political Concepts Chapter 2)
  18. Political Concepts: Politics Itself (Ch #1)
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 14, 2021
  20. Political Concepts: Introduction and Table Of Contents
  21. Open Thread
  22. Privatization Is Always A Ripoff
  23. The EU Needs To Get Clear On Its Interests
  24. The ACA (Obamacare) Has Performed As Predicted
  25. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 7, 2021
  26. Open Thread
  27. A Basic Meditation Plan Which Can Take You Far
  28. India Is Not The Next China
  29. China’s Economic “Miracle” Was Normal

October 2021

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 31, 2021
  2. Open Thread
  3. I Was Shocked To Find Out How Many People The Terror Killed
  4. The Perceived Self-Interest Of The Rich And Powerful
  5. How To Predict If The Shortages Will Be A Priority To Fix
  6. Periods of Popular Political Change Happen When…
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 24, 2021
  8. Open Thread
  9. Stopping Sinema and Manchin From Electing Donald Trump
  10. The Destruction of the United Kingdom
  11. Remembering Colin Powell
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 17, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. The Judgement of Craig Newell
  15. The Totalizing Principle Of Profit, and the Death of the Sacred
  16. The Shortages Will Get Worse Before They Get Better
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 10, 2021
  18. A New Ideology
  19. Open Thread
  20. How The Structure Of The World Economy Made Shortages Inevitable
  21. The Correct Level of Profits in an Economy
  22. Methane And The Point Where Humans Are No Longer In Control
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 3, 2021
  24. Open Thread

September 2021

  1. What App Stores Have Cost All Of US
  2. The Advantage of Permission & The Fall Of Oligarchies
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 26, 2021
  4. Open Thread
  5. The Wages Of Embarassing Elites Are Death
  6. Ricardo’s Caveat
  7. The Age Of Assassination
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 19, 2021
  9. Open Thread
  10. The Art of Measurement
  11. The Lack of Belief in Good
  12. Once More Unto Covid and Schools
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 12, 2021
  14. Open Thread
  15. How Monopolies and Oligopolies Cause Shortages
  16. The Simplest Explanation for Western Decline
  17. The Biden Presidency So Far
  18. It’s Not Your Money
  19. As Employers Cut Their Own Throats: How They Could Save Themselves
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 5, 2021
  21. Open Thread
  22. Texas’s Effective Anti-Abortion Law

August 2021

  1. Three Simple Policy Heuristics
  2. Living in Reality: Afghanistan Issue
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 29, 2021
  4. Open Thread
  5. The Taliban, ISIS, & the Kabul Airport Attack
  6. The Beautiful Stupidity of Ukraine’s Massive Sell-off
  7. China is “Totalitarian,” We Couldn’t Do Zero-Covid
  8. Herd Immunity & Multiple Covid Waves Is a Monstrous Policy
  9. America Decides to Ensure Afghanistan Will Be a Chinese and Russian Ally
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 22, 2021
  11. Open Thread
  12. Once More About Sending Your Kids Back to School
  13. What I Wrote April 9th About Afghanistan
  14. A Few Words About the Taliban
  15. The Taliban Take Control Of Afghanistan
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 15, 2021
  17. Open Thread
  18. The Labor Shortage And the New Criminalization
  19. Humanity’s Completely Broken Feedback Systems
  20. The New Age Of Vertical Integration
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 8, 2021
  22. Open Thread
  23. The Covid Idiot Shuffle
  24. When The “Communists” Do The Right Things
  25. And The Mass Evictions are ON
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 1, 2021

July 2021

  1. Open Thread
  2. A Brief Note On Afghanistan And The Taliban
  3. Who Goes To Prison For America’s Crimes? The Whistleblowers.
  4. A Great Idea About Capitalism That Was Wrong
  5. Rationality Is Not A Way Out Of Group Action Problems like Climate Change and Covid
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 25, 2021
  7. Open Thread
  8. How The Metaphysics Of Capitalism Destroyed The World
  9. Quarantine Matters
  10. The Decision to Let Covid Go Chronic
  11. The Canadian Economy Under US Hegemony and Neoliberalism
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 18, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. Cuba’s Big Currency Mistake
  15. Understanding Your Control Over Climate Change
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 11, 2021
  17. Open Thread
  18. Hot Enough to Die
  19. The Spread of New Covid Variants
  20. Siphon the System Thinking Doesn’t Work Against Nature
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 4, 2021
  22. Open Thread
  23. A Quick Note to Email Subscribers
  24. Canada Day, Canada’s Shame

June 2021

  1. Talking ‘Bout Cancel Culture
  2. Reminder: Prepare for the Forest Fire/Smoke Season
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 27, 2021
  4. Open Thread
  5. Yes, Virginia, Permafrost IS Going to Release Carbon and Methane
  6. Why Non-surveillance States Will Out-compete Surveillance States
  7. How Techies Can Help Us Avoid the Rise of the Warbots
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 20, 2021
  9. Open Thread
  10. Types Of Enlightenment: Part 1 1/2 – World As Self
  11. Democratic Congress Members Want What Republicans Want
  12. It Is True: There Is No Moral Equivalency Between Hamas and Israel or the US
  13. The Lords of Hell (and Their Slaves)
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 13, 2021
  15. Open Thread
  16. Your Phone Is a Sucking Security Wound and Basic Anti-surveillance Hygiene
  17. Way Past Time to Leave America
  18. Huge Western Wildfire Season Far Beyond California
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 6, 2021
  20. Open Thread
  21. How to Do Single-Payer, Medicare-for-All Properly in the US
  22. The Squad and Kabuki Votes

May 2021

  1. How We’re Making Sure Covid Goes Chronic
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 30, 2021
  3. Open Thread
  4. How Finance Sharks Destroy Industries: Chicago Tribune Edition
  5. CDC Decides to Just Not Count All Covid Cases
  6. Types of Enlightenment #1: World As Self
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 23, 2021
  8. Open Thread
  9. Protecting Diaspora Jews and Ending the Israeli Threat to Jews
  10. Neoliberalism in India and Covid Deaths
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 16, 2021
  12. Open Thread
  13. Israel Invades Gaza
  14. The Right of Israel to Exist and the Fresh Hell it Is Heading Towards
  15. The Inflation Spike: What it Will Do & How to Take Advantage
  16. Biden Defies Pharma Plan to Never Wipe Out Covid So They Can Profit Forever
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 9, 2021
  18. Open Thread
  19. Basic Puppy Meditation
  20. Who Deserves the Good Things in Life?
  21. The Most Radical Statement I’ve Ever Read
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 2, 2021
  23. Open Thread

April 2021

  1. Commentary on Biden’s Speech
  2. Why Progress Always Required Space Travel
  3. All the Futures that Will Not Happen
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 25, 2021
  5. Open Thread
  6. The Catastrophic Covid Crisis in India
  7. The Ugly Reality of America’s Powerful
  8. The Point People Miss About Navalny’s Imprisonment
  9. Why Do We Do That?
  10. Capitalism and Good Post-capitalism
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 18, 2021
  12. Open Thread
  13. What Can Taiwan Do to Protect Itself from China?
  14. If Biden Actually Withdraws Troops from Afghanistan by 9/11, He’ll Have Done Something Good
  15. The Psychopathology of Human Leadership
  16. Making the Rich and Powerful Work for Everyone
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 11, 2021
  18. Open Thread
  19. American Suicide Numbers Dropped Last Year
  20. Only Zero Covid Worked and Everyone Knows It
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 4, 2021
  22. Open Thread
  23. Has the Era of Ordinary Americans Thinking They Are “Pre-Rich” Ended?

March 2021

  1. The Ludicrous Trans Wars
  2. The Vast Confusion of Implicit Assumptions Like Wages and Productivity
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 28, 2021
  4. Open Thread
  5. Offshoring Critical Industries Is So Harmful It Should Be Treason (Covid Edition)
  6. The Coming Boom
  7. Questions, Questions, Questions (For You)
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 21, 2021
  9. Open Thread
  10. Of Course Putin Is A Killer. So Is Biden.
  11. Cold War 2.0 Continues To Gather Pace Under Biden
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. Colonization, Conquest, and Our Unconscious Civilization
  15. When You’ll Get a More Equal Society
  16. The Utility of Fear, Anger, and Hate
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 7, 2021
  18. Open Thread
  19. Jackson, Mississippi in Third Week Without Water
  20. Our Society, the Slave Factory
  21. Open Thread

February 2021

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 28, 2021
  2. The Next US President
  3. Running Before The Wind
  4. The Betrayal At The Heart of Sanders, AOC and Corbyn’s Refusal To Use Power
  5. The Core Social Principles of Ideologies
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 21, 2021
  7. Open Thread
  8. Texas Lessons For Preparing For The Ongoing Collapse
  9. Rush Limbaugh Escapes The Hell-World He Created
  10. Simple Advice For the Cold Emergency
  11. The Simplest Explanation For Not Breaking Covid Vaccine Patents
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 14, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
  15. Explosive Growth, Vaccines And Covid Variants
  16. Bitcoin Is Reactionary Money
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 7, 2021
  18. Open Thread
  19. Default to Kindness
  20. AOC Is Right About Hawley and Cruz & America Is A Coup-able State
  21. Biden Is Determined To Lose Congress In 2022

January 2021

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 31, 2021
  2. Open Thread
  3. What Is Important About The Reddit Gamestop Short-Squeeze
  4. The Free, Diverse Internet In America Is Coming To An End
  5. Will Bill Gates And mRNA Vaccine Monopolies Be Responsible For Millions of Covid Deaths?
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 24, 2021
  7. Open Thread
  8. The Logic Of Bootlickers Is The Logic Of Too Many Americans
  9. 50 State Protests Fizzle + Biden
  10. Anti-Terrorism “Meat Grinder” Coming Home
  11. Staying Happy in Self-Isolation
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 17, 2021
  13. Open Thread
  14. The Philosophy of Decline and Collapse
  15. You Can Always Get Half the Population To Hate The Other Half
  16. Laura Poitras Fired From The Intercept
  17. The Conditions Now Exist For A Long Term Right Wing Insurgency In America
  18. The Terror of Liberals in a Time of Insurrection
  19. The Terrible Bind America’s Elites Are In
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 10, 2021
  21. Open Thread
  22. Americans Have Found the Enemy, and It Is They
  23. Trump Has Proven the US Is Ripe for a Right-wing Coup
  24. Trump Election Protestors Storm Capital to “Save Democracy”
  25. How Will Biden Rule Now That Democrats Control Congress?
  26. Georgia State Elections
  27. Terrible Assange Extradition Ruling for Press Freedom
  28. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 3, 2021
  29. Open Thread
  30. Josh Hawley Moves to Become Trump’s Heir Presumptive

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December 2020

  1. Plus c’est la même chose
  2. Why Larry Summers MUST Believe $2,000 Checks Are a Bad Idea
  3. Effects of the New 60 Percent More Infectious Covid Strain
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 27, 2020
  5. Merry Christmas
  6. Trump Outflanks Dems from the Left
  7. A Brief Note on the New Covid “Stimulus” Bill
  8. Fundraising Finale
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 20, 2020
  10. Open Thread
  11. Last Day of Fundraiser and the Role of Opinion and News
  12. “Get Biden Elected Then We’ll Influence Him From The Left”
  13. The Simple Guide to the Happy Personality
  14. Fundraising Update and Fundraiser Ending Friday the 18th
  15. “Nice Guys” and Using People
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 13, 2020
  17. You Can’t Buy Anything That Matters When It Matters (Covid Vaccine Edition)
  18. Disney Setting A Precedent For Not Paying Writers
  19. Open Thread
  20. Twelve Million Renters To Be Homeless Soon Because It Benefits the Rich
  21. Why People Bully & A Better Way
  22. The Fortune of the Commons
  23. The Beauty of the Future
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 6, 2020
  25. Open Thread & Fundraising Update
  26. The Emotional Logic Of Covid Denial
  27. The Rise of the Guillotine
  28. Schools and Covid
  29. 2020 Fundraiser Update

November 2020

  1. The Path Of The Great Prophets
  2. Abundance Mindset, Scarcity Economies and the Great Game Of Musical Chairs
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 29, 2020
  4. Happy Thanksgiving
  5. The Flynn Pardon Is The Right Thing To Do + Mishandling Russia
  6. Divided Societies in Decline Use Scapegoats to Re-Unify
  7. Know Your Enemies
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 22, 2020
  9. Open Thread
  10. “Intellectual Property” Law Set To Kill Millions By Slowing Covid-19 Vaccine Access
  11. And Here I Had Some Faint Hope for Biden
  12. How to Protect Yourself from Doomscrolling & Bad News
  13. Our Society Is Built on Lying and Breaking Faith
  14. I Suffered, Therefore So Must Others
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 15, 2020
  16. Full Interview on the Current Situation and the Future
  17. The US Can Have a Boom Economy Six Months from Whenever It Gets Serious
  18. The West Proves Its Incapacity with Covid
  19. 2020 Fundraiser
  20. The Good Scenario For America’s Future
  21. What Will A Biden Presidency Be Like?
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 8, 2020
  23. Open Thread
  24. The Deep Green and the Shore
  25. It’s Essentially Over
  26. We Do All Understand The Trump Play To Win The Election Even If He Loses?
  27. Why Is The Election So Close?
  28. Election Day in the US
  29. The Day Before The US Election
  30. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 1, 2020

October 2020

  1. “Will The System Work” & Open Thread
  2. The Hunter Biden Documents Lead To Greenwald’s Resignation From the Intercept
  3. Interview Part 2: Politics Thru Climate Change
  4. The 6-3, 5-4 Supreme Court
  5. Election Scenarios
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 25 2020
  7. Open Thread
  8. Seven Rules for Running a Real Left-wing Government
  9. Presidential Debate Thread
  10. October Covid Update
  11. Bolivian Socialists Sweep To Power
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 18, 2020
  13. Open Thread
  14. Bullshit Economic Statistics
  15. “Story Engineering” by Larry Brooks
  16. Are We Doomed to Live In Hell?
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 11, 2020
  18. Open Thread
  19. Tech Platform Censorship & The Great QAnon Facebook Purge
  20. Nine Lies About Work by Buckingham and Goodall
  21. Trump Covid Thread
  22. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” Is An Inapplicable Parable For Our Time
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 4, 2020
  24. Open Thread
  25. A Quick Note on Trump Having Covid

September 2020

  1. “FDR” by Jean Edward Smith
  2. Open Thread
  3. “Behave” By Robert Sapolsky
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 27, 2020
  5. Open Thread
  6. Delusion Regarding the Fall of Neoliberalism and Globalization
  7. Aspirational Versus Servant Leaders
  8. Bill Bodri’s “Culture, Country, City, Company, Person, Purpose, Passion, World”
  9. The European Union
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 20, 2020
  11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death
  12. Open Thread
  13. Apparently Biden WANTS To Lose The Election
  14. The Theocratic Mantra Of Our Age
  15. Square circles
  16. Two Tips For Dealing With Smoke
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 13, 2020
  18. Open Thread
  19. Remember 9/11, When America Went Mad
  20. September US Covid Update
  21. Some graphs and comments for LABOR DAY
  22. Wage Slavery on Labor Day
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 6, 2020
  24. Open Thread
  25. R.I.P. David Graeber
  26. The Principle of Elite Consequences
  27. The Simple Way to Fix Law Enforcement in British-style Systems (Like the US)

August 2020

  1. Protect Yourself from Political Violence in the Age of Facial Recognition and Doxxing
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 30, 2020
  3. Open Thread
  4. Biden Has What It Takes to Lose
  5. The Real Republican Platform
  6. Why QAnon Resonates
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 23, 2020
  8. Open Thread
  9. Sanders Anoints AOC His Heir
  10. The Extended Emotional Body
  11. Appropriate Hate (and Other Negative Emotions)
  12. “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way” Redux
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 16, 2020
  14. Open Thread
  15. The Left-wing “Shit Sandwich” Dilemma
  16. Biden Picks Kamala Harris as VP
  17. Cold War 2.0 Incoming
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 9, 2020
  19. Open Thread
  20. America Is About to Feel Like a Third World Nation
  21. Understanding Leadership Responsibility For Death, Harm & Welfare
  22. American and Sending Your Children Back To School In September? Bad Idea
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 2, 2020
  24. Open Thread

July 2020

  1. Understanding American Elites Means Understanding Predators
  2. The Riots to Come… and The Revolution?
  3. American Social Collapse Is Far Closer than Most Will Admit
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 26, 2020
  5. Open Thread
  6. The Cadfael Mystery Novels
  7. The Weirdness of “Coronavirus” Hacking
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 19, 2020
  9. The Portland Seizures Are the Next Step to Latin American-Style Fascism
  10. Open Thread
  11. The Current Trendline Is Full-fledged American Social Collapse
  12. Feeling and Acting Powerful in Catastrophic Times
  13. The “System” Did Not Appear Ex Nihilo
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2020
  15. Open Thread
  16. The Well-meaning American Oligarchy Are SO Misunderstood
  17. America’s Elites Live by the Rule of Power (Covid Version)
  18. The Coming Homelessness and Hunger Apocalypse in America
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 5, 2020
  20. Open Thread
  21. War Crime Apologia
  22. Happy Canada Day

June 2020

  1. Time to Derail Nuclear Treaty Talks?
  2. Being Held Hostage by the Cost of Insurrection
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 28, 2020
  4. Open Thread
  5. Do Not Ask Western Leadership to Fix Anything
  6. As The Next Wave Of Covid Hits
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 21, 2020
  8. Open Thread
  9. Is Cruelty Required?
  10. A Small Insight About Power, Markets, and Post-capitalism
  11. Does Generational Character Exist?
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 14, 2020
  13. Open Thread
  14. Your Responsibility for Insight, Understanding, and Creative Work
  15. The Cycle of Civilization and the Twilight of Neoliberalism
  16. Truly, Truly Good News as Americans Get Serious
  17. Power Concedes Nothing Without a Credible Threat: Riots Work Edition
  18. June 5th US Covid Data (Final!)
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 7, 2020
  20. Open Thread
  21. June 3rd and 4th US Covid Data
  22. Who Gets to Be Violent and Why?
  23. A Long, Hot Summer
  24. June 2nd US Covid Stats
  25. The Age of War and Revolution
  26. June 1st US Covid Data
  27. Policing the Police
  28. May 31st US Covid Data

May 2020

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 31, 2020
  2. Summer Covid Prediction +May 30th US Covid Cases
  3. Protect Yourself from Retaliation After the Riots
  4. May 29th US Covid Data
  5. The Minneapolis Riots
  6. May 28th US Covid Stats
  7. May 27th US Covid Data
  8. Why Read or Write About the Grand Affairs of Humanity?
  9. May 26th US Covid Stats
  10. Telling an Adventure Story with Your Life
  11. May 25th US Covid Cases
  12. May 24th US Covid Cases
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 24, 2020
  14. May 23rd US Covid Data
  15. Open Thread
  16. May 22nd US Covid Data
  17. Herd Immunity Isn’t Happening AND this Crisis Has a Long Way to Go
  18. May 21st US Covid Data
  19. May 20th US Covid Data
  20. The False Choice of Deaths Versus the Economy
  21. May 19th US Covid Data
  22. May 18th US Covid Data
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2020
  24. May 17th US Covid Data
  25. May 16th US Covid Data
  26. Open Thread
  27. Why Armed Right-wingers Were Able to Shut Down Michigan’s Legislature
  28. May 15th US Covid Data
  29. May 14th US Covid Data
  30. We Need a Radically Different Model to Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis – James Galbraith
  31. May 13th US Covid Data
  32. May 12th Covid Numbers
  33. How Covid Will Play Out in America
  34. May 11th US Covid Data
  35. May 10th US Covid Data
  36. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 10, 2020
  37. May 9th US Covid Data
  38. Open Thread
  39. May 8th US Covid Data
  40. How Neoliberalism Destroyed Capitalism
  41. May 7th US Covid Data
  42. May 6th US Covid Data
  43. The Dunning-Kruger Affect
  44. May 5th US Covid Data
  45. A Word to Parents in the Time of Covid
  46. May 4th US Covid Data
  47. May 3rd US Covid Data
  48. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 3, 2020
  49. Federal Funds Must Go to State and Local Governments
  50. Open Thread
  51. May 1st US Covid Data
  52. It’s Impossible to Overstate How Broken America Is

April 2020

  1. The Inability to Do Basic Things
  2. April 30th US Covid Data
  3. April 29th US Covid Data
  4. Why the Left Keeps Losing and What They Must Do to Win
  5. April 28th US Covid Data
  6. The Covid Live Test of Your Government
  7. April 27th US Covid Data
  8. April 25th US Covid Data
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 26, 2020
  10. Open Thread
  11. April 24th US Covid Data
  12. On the Causes and Consequences of the Oil Price Crash
  13. April 23rd US Covid Data
  14. April 22nd US Covid Data
  15. The Sheer Awe-inspiring American Clusterfuck
  16. April 21st US Covid Data
  17. April 20th US Covid Numbers
  18. The Mass Delusion of Self-Actualization
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 19, 2020
  20. April 19th US Covid Update
  21. April 18th US Covid Data
  22. Open Thread
  23. Is America Going to Have a Covid-19 Apocalypse?
  24. April 17th US Covid Data
  25. The Transition to Capitalism
  26. US Covid April 16th Data
  27. US Covid April 15th Data
  28. The Duty and Responsibility of Left-wing Leaders
  29. April 14th US Covid Data
  30. The Next Problem Will Be Food
  31. April 13th US Covid Data
  32. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 12, 2020
  33. April 12th US Covid Data
  34. April 11th US Covid Data
  35. Open Thread
  36. April 10th US Covid Data
  37. It’s Biden’s World
  38. April 9th US Covid Data
  39. Sanders Drops Out
  40. April 8th US Covid Data
  41. Geopolitics and the Economy After Covid-19
  42. April 7th US Covid Data: Some Signs of Flattening
  43. Saving Your Local Economy, 4-6-20
  44. April 6th US Covid-19 Data
  45. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 5, 2020
  46. April 5th Covid Data
  47. Open Thread
  48. April 3rd US Covid-19 Data
  49. Why Western Elites Are So Incompetent and What the Consequences Are
  50. April 2nd US Covid-19 Update
  51. April 1st US Covid-19 Data

March 2020

  1. The Terrible Impulse to Rally Around Bad Leaders in a Crisis
  2. Monday March 31st US Covid-19 Data
  3. March 30th US Covid Data, Doubling Rate Slows
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2020
  5. Open Thread & March 28th US Covid Numbers Update
  6. Morning Covid-19 USA Data
  7. Will Trump’s Fumbling of Covid-19 Lead to His Exit in Weeks?
  8. Economic Consequences of the Pandemic
  9. How to Save the Economy and Not Kill Millions
  10. Protect People, Not Financial Ledgers
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 22, 2020
  12. Open Thread
  13. Lessons of the Virus: Who Creates Value and What the Good Life Is
  14. A Company Handling Crisis Communication Correctly
  15. How Bad Is Coronavirus Going to Be and What Should We Do?
  16. Economics of a Flu Pandemic: Part II
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 15, 2020
  18. The Economics of a Flu Pandemic (Virus)
  19. Open Thread
  20. Coronavirus Bungling Is What We Voted For
  21. Taking the Coronvirus Seriously
  22. Another Set of Primaries Today
  23. Once More on Elizabeth Warren in Her Moment of Truth
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 8, 2020
  25. Open Thread
  26. Who I Bleed With and Why Bernie Is Trusted
  27. Elizabeth Warren’s “What Am I Moment”
  28. Bernie’s Road Forward
  29. Super Tuesday
  30. Why Sanders Supporters Care So Much
  31. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 1, 2020

February 2020

  1. Open Thread
  2. The Justification for Great Wealth
  3. Preparing for the Coronavirus
  4. The Greatest Danger to Bernie’s Revolution
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 23, 2020
  6. Nevada Caucuses
  7. Open Thread
  8. Sanders Comes to Save Capitalism, Not Destroy It
  9. The Oligarch Stage of the American Disease: Bloomberg Edition
  10. Groups Only a Fool Trusts
  11. What Makes a Good Person?
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 16, 2019
  13. Open Thread
  14. How Capitalism Makes Evil Rational
  15. Bernie Wins New Hampshire Primary
  16. Why People Don’t Learn: You Can’t Look It Up and You Can’t Give It Away
  17. “Construction of Reality” First Draft Sent to Editor
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 9, 2019
  19. Open Thread
  20. Iowa Caucuses: Incompetent or, *cough,* “Not Cheating?”
  21. Who Is More Competent? The Democrat Establishment or the Sanders Campaign?
  22. Iowa Caucus
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 2, 2019
  24. Open Thread

January 2020

  1. Sanders vs. Warren Supporters
  2. Does Bernie Sanders Know What He’s Doing?
  3. Identity, Politics
  4. First, Elect Someone Who Wants to Do the Right Thing (Sanders Edition)
  5. The Ethics of Not Supporting Sanders
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 26, 2020
  7. Rogan Joshing
  8. Open Thread
  9. The End of Public Anonymity Is Close
  10. Why Actual Principled People Are Difficult (Glenn Greenwald Edition)
  11. The NYTimes Reveals More than It Means
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 19, 2020
  13. Open Thread
  14. Dozens of Extinctions from the Australia Wildfires, But That’s Not the Worst
  15. AOC Is Actually Serious About Building Progressive Power
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 12, 2020
  17. Open Thread
  18. An Australia Picture Worth Those Thousand Words
  19. Iran Isn’t Going to Let Itself Be Kicked to Death Without Fighting Back
  20. New Hope for a New Year
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 5, 2020
  22. Why US Leadership Stinks and Drone Assassination Doesn’t Matter (Leadership in Organizations People Believe In)
  23. Open Thread
  24. Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran?
  25. As We Sow: Australian Wildfire Edition
  26. Happy New Year!

2019 260

December 2019

  1. William Greider – In memoriam – (1936 – 2019)
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 29, 2019
  3. Open Thread
  4. Christianity as a Religious Ideology
  5. Merry Christmas
  6. The Coming Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in India
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 22, 2019
  8. Open Thread
  9. Social Facts Create Reality
  10. Corbyn’s Biggest Failure
  11. Responsibility in Democracies
  12. Why Labour Lost in Britain
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 15, 2019
  14. Open Thread
  15. TINA trauma
  16. Britain’s Election Today
  17. Jews to Be a Nationality
  18. Lessons from the Lies in Afghanistan and Vietnam
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 8, 2019
  20. Open Thread
  21. Killing Herd Animals
  22. Why Impeachment Has No Traction
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 1, 2019

November 2019

  1. Open Thread
  2. The Lesson of Thanksgiving
  3. How Smart Stupid People Fuck Up the World
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2019
  5. Open Thread
  6. Toward a Land Ethic
  7. Accepting and Using Climate Change
  8. Assange Was Right All Along
  9. How to Fix Fake News
  10. Hope Is Bullshit
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 17, 2019
  12. Open Thread
  13. It’s Not OK to Think Everything Is OK or Getting Better and Better
  14. Bolivia’s Evo Morales Forced Out of Presidency
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 10, 2019
  16. Open Thread
  17. There Are No Good Billionaires (Bill Gates Edition)
  18. Alberta’s Alienation from Canada
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 3, 2019
  20. Open Thread

October 2019

  1. Is California a Third World State?
  2. Britain Goes to the Polls December 12th
  3. Most Wealthy People Aren’t Going to Be Able to Avoid Climate Change
  4. Dangers and Possibilities in the Chile Protests
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 27, 2019
  6. Open Thread
  7. Yes, You CAN Tax the Rich
  8. Trudeau Decides to Run a Minority, Conservative Government
  9. Liberal Party Wins a Minority in Canada
  10. What Protests in Lebanon, France, Chile, and Ecuador Have in Common
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 20, 2019
  12. Open Thread
  13. AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Tlaib Endorse Sanders
  14. The Bullshit of Bias Evaluation and Left/Right Equivalency
  15. Facebook, Destroyer of Media
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 13, 2019
  17. Open Thread and Preparing for Power Outs
  18. Profit Is Just Another Word for Destruction
  19. California Power Company Cuts Power to 800,000 Homes to Avert Wildfires
  20. America’s Betrayal of the Kurds
  21. The Problem with Pharma Research
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 6, 2019
  23. Open Thread
  24. The Simple Truth About Libya and Syria
  25. Bernie’s Heart Problems
  26. Simple Humanity
  27. Hunter Biden’s Corruption

September 2019

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 29, 2019
  2. Open Thread
  3. Modern Meritocracy Isn’t Worth Having
  4. Pelosi Moves to Impeach Trump
  5. UK Supreme Court Rules Prorogue Illegal
  6. The Democratic Ethics of Brexit
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 22, 2019
  8. Open Thread
  9. Should NATO Exist? Will It?
  10. The Cruelty and Stupidity of Trumpian Homelessness Rhetoric
  11. And They Made a Desert: 80 to 90% Drop in Nutrients in Food
  12. How Important Is the Drone Attack on the Saudi Oil Field?
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 15, 2019
  14. Open Thread
  15. Brief Notes on the Democratic Primaries
  16. Remembering 9/11
  17. Capitalism Requires Loss of Money and Power
  18. Britain’s Ongoing Brexit Drama
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 8, 2019
  20. Open Thread
  21. How Economic Decisions Are Made
  22. When the Ideas that Run the World Change
  23. Why Labour Unions Matter(ed)
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 1, 2019

August 2019

  1. Open Thread
  2. Boris Johnson Prorogues Parliament
  3. Japan and South Korea Agree China Will Rule SE Asia
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 25, 2019
  5. Open Thread
  6. I’ve Never Known How to Say This
  7. About the Amazon Burning: It’s Worse than You Think
  8. What Negative Interest Rates Mean and What We Should Do
  9. Our Leaders Kill for Their Own Benefit
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18, 2019
  11. Open Thread
  12. The Thing About Racism and Prejudice…
  13. The Palestinian Option for Kashmir?
  14. A Few Words About Argentina
  15. Why and When Good Wins
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 12, 2019
  17. Jeffrey Epstein Commits Suicide
  18. Why We Need to End Banks and Shadow Banks
  19. The Unfolding of Climate Change Catastrophe
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 4, 2019
  21. Open Thread
  22. A Broken Media Is a Broken Society

July 2019

  1. A Rainbow Reading Out of Pete Buttigieg
  2. Thank God I Was Born Before Cellphones
  3. Meditation for the Original Sin of Identification
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 28, 2019
  5. Open Thread
  6. Republican Daddies and Democratic Mummies
  7. Who Bans or Encourages Crypto?
  8. Is Turkey Going to Exit NATO?
  9. Khameini’s Three Directives for Iran
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 20, 2019
  11. UK Seizes Iranian Tanker, So Iran Seizes UK Tanker
  12. Inequality Is Unnatural
  13. Eliminationist Rhetoric
  14. Scenarios for America’s Political Future
  15. The Problem with Neoliberal “It’s Never Been Better” Triumphalism
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 14, 2019
  17. Open Thread
  18. Matt Stoller Writes BIG: Anti-Trust
  19. Simple Decision Making
  20. Basic Ethics and When Violence Is Justified
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 6, 2019
  22. Open Thread and Posting
  23. Happy Independence Day
  24. Happy Canada Day

June 2019

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 29, 2019
  2. End of Fundraiser and Open Thread
  3. Polling at this Time in 2015
  4. Matching Donations Finished
  5. The Problem with Public Expertise
  6. FINISHED — Matching Donations up to $1,000 Total
  7. Open Thread
  8. Fundraising Update and the Art of Thinking
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 22, 2019
  10. An E-Book Reader
  11. Another Biden Problem
  12. Why Would Iran Attack Tankers?
  13. Bernie Sanders vs. Elizabeth Warren
  14. Pharma Execs Should Go to Jail and Pharma Should Be Publicly Run
  15. Why the Consensus Environmental Predictions Are Wrong
  16. What the Chinese Communist Party Learned from the Fall of the USSR
  17. Open Thread
  18. One Way to Fix Soaring Rent Prices
  19. Book Reviews & Fundraising Update
  20. Why the Economy Is Bad for Most People and How to Make It Better
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 8, 2019
  22. America: A Christian Nation
  23. China Already Has Almost 430 Million People With First World Incomes
  24. The Curse of Knowledge and Predicting Electoral Results
  25. Homelessness and Poverty Are Policy Choices
  26. Open Thread
  27. Fundraising Update
  28. Why Elites Are Creating Surveillance States
  29. Week-end Wrap, June 2, 2019
  30. Biden Will Run on Fear, Trump Will Run on Hope

May 2019

  1. The Terrible Ethical Calculus of Catastrophe
  2. US Corn Crop Failure
  3. Oncoming Recession and the Chinese/US Trade War
  4. The Most Important Climate Change Graph You’ll Ever See
  5. 2019 Fundraiser
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 26, 2019
  7. Open Thread
  8. The Politics You’ve Got
  9. The Imperial Presidency and Eterna-War
  10. Everyone’s Noticed the Oncoming US/China Cold War
  11. “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: The Collected Essays of Ian Welsh”
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 18, 2019
  13. The Sanders-AOC Bill to Cap Interest Rates At 15% Is Too High
  14. Open Thread
  15. Deaths of Despair Soar in the UK
  16. The Telecom Revolution Is Mostly Authoritarian
  17. Say Goodbye to Permafrost (And Civilization)?
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 11, 2019
  19. It Is Impossible to Control Corporations Without 90%+ Progressive Tax Rates
  20. Who Do You Want to Win an Iranian/American War?
  21. Happiness, Love, and Terrorism
  22. The Coming War with Iran?
  23. One Million Species at Risk of Extinction + One
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 5, 2019
  25. Why Uncle Joe Biden Is Leading Polls
  26. Competing with Corporations, Emotional Performance, and Meditation
  27. The Big, Wet Venezuelan Coup Flop

April 2019

  1. USSR/Russia and America’s Record Interfering In Elections
  2. Saudi Arabia’s Laughably Stupid Plan for the End of Oil
  3. Week-end Wrap – April 28, 2019
  4. Biden Declares: He’s Not Your Uncle Joe
  5. Disney Explains that the Reason Poor Working People Are Poor Is Executives
  6. Why Buttigieg Beats Harris and Beto to Be the DNC’s Champion
  7. Trump Will Leave and Will Not Launch a Coup
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 20, 2019
  9. If Non Sanders Democratic Nominees Can’t Convince Voters To Vote For Them Isn’t That Bad?
  10. The Most Fundamental Test of Intellectual And Ethical Integrity
  11. So You Want to Be the Next Silicon Valley? One Thing You Must Not Do.
  12. The Forbidden Truth About Analog Technology
  13. Week-end Wrap April 14, 2019
  14. Eat the Young: Student Loan Version
  15. Julian Assange Arrested for Violating Bail
  16. Don’t Confuse Capitalism with Industrialization
  17. The Ongoing Libyan Catastrophe
  18. America: A Failing State
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 7, 2019
  20. Veblen’s Idea of Business Versus Industry
  21. Why the USSR Lost the Cold War
  22. The Argument for Capitalism
  23. The Lyft and Uber Endgame: Oligopoly Prices, Impoverished Workers
  24. Joe Biden’s Touching Problem

March 2019

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 31, 2019
  2. Economics as Cultural Warfare: The Case of Adam Smith
  3. Yes, Gender and Minority Prejudice Exists
  4. Placing the Precautionary Principle Before Profit
  5. The Mueller Report: Who Cares?
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 24, 2019
  7. Is There Hope For Mitigating Climate Change?
  8. Climate Change and Game Theory
  9. Rules of Thumb
  10. Water Wars And the Great Indian Die-Off
  11. Circles of Identity, Circles of Violence
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 17, 2019
  13. There Is No Downside to Impeaching Trump for Democrats
  14. The Question Isn’t Manafort’s Short Sentences
  15. Are Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Harbingers of the Turning of the Tide
  16. Week-end Wrap, March 10, 2019
  17. Liberals and the Left Fail to Notice – and Celebrate – the Intellectual Death of Conservatism
  18. An Introduction to Game Theory

February 2019

  1. India and Pakistan Trade Air Strikes
  2. The Day the World Ended
  3. The Simple Reason I’ll Probably Support Bernie
  4. The Essential Spiritual Insight About Happiness (Part I)
  5. Seven MPs Quit Britain’s Labour Party
  6. Republic’s End: Trump’s National Emergency
  7. When Are You Guilty for the Crimes of Your Group
  8. The Golden Rule for Judging HealthCare Reform
  9. The Rise of the Strongman

January 2019

  1. World Poverty Is NOT Decreasing
  2. The Problem with Banning Huawei 5G Tech
  3. Best Posts
  4. The Coup Attempt in Venezuela
  5. Two Lessons from France’s Yellow Vest Protests
  6. What the Huawei Row Portends for the Future of America, China, and Canada
  7. Drones Are a Weapon of the Weak, #2
  8. Fight Over Something That Matters; “The Wall” Mostly Doesn’t
  9. How Not to Cheat Yourself with Meditation
  10. That Energybet Bonus Post
  11. And the Seas Turned to Blood: 20 Years to Biblical Apocalypse?
  12. Looking Back at the Year That Was, and Looking Forward to Hell

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December 2018

  1. Merry Chistmas
  2. Is Trump Right to Shutdown the Government over His Wall?
  3. Rising and Falling
  4. Trump the Peacemaker?
  5. Capitaly
  6. The Rule of Alienation and Stability
  7. Meanwhile in Hungary
  8. Meritocracy? What Meritocracy?
  9. Is the Afghan War Lost?
  10. Our Germophobic, Plastic-addicted Society
  11. Admin Notice
  12. The French Yellow Jacket Protests
  13. Deportation
  14. The Life and Death of George Bush, Sr.: The Best of a Bad Bunch

November 2018

  1. The Joy of Evil
  2. Russia Seizes Ukrainian Ships and Ukraine Declares Martial Law
  3. The Difference Between Compulsiveness and Happiness
  4. The Age of Compliance
  5. What May’s Brexit Deal Tells Us About the EU and Britain’s Future
  6. In Flanders Field, by John McRae
  7. Dems Take the House: What It Means
  8. The Mid-Terms
  9. Actual Sovereign Nations and the End of the Unipolar Moment

October 2018

  1. Fat, Unhealthy, and Poor
  2. What Jair Bolsonaro’s Unfortunate Brazilian Victory Means
  3. The Criteria for Forgiveness of Public Policy Mistakes
  4. Shun the Climate Change Deniers
  5. Bend Over and Kiss Your Ass Goodbye: IPCC Report Version
  6. Putin’s Control of Trump and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
  7. Open Thread
  8. Trump’s Continued Collision with the Federal Reserve
  9. Open Thread
  10. “A Single Death Is a Tragedy…”; Saudi Edition
  11. The Closing of the Saudi Elite
  12. Red Lines
  13. Open Thread
  14. How Over-priced Is the US Housing Market?

September 2018

  1. Baked In, Baked Off: The Trump Administration Climate “Admission”
  2. Kavanaugh Discussion Thread
  3. Of Course Ted Cruz Should Be Publicly Ostracized
  4. Six Lessons From Genghis Khan’s Victories
  5. Breaking Your Chains
  6. Tales of Canadian Healthcare and Potential Russia/US War in Syria
  7. Why Did The New Yorker Want Steve Bannon to Headline Their Festival?

August 2018

  1. When Will the US Lose Control of the World Payments System?
  2. Should Canada Concede to Trump in NAFTA Renegotiations?
  3. The Fundamental Unit of Representative Democracy
  4. No, the World Isn’t Getting Better for Everyone
  5. Much of Western America Will Be Uninhabitable in 40 Years
  6. The Creation of New Worlds Examined Through Myth
  7. Why I’m Not Worked Up About “Fake News” and Why I Am
  8. White Helmet
  9. The Hilarious Saudi-Canadian Dispute & The Less Hilarious Terrorism Threat From Saudi Arabia
  10. (A Just World) Hang’em High
  11. How We Are Conditioned To Be Slaves

July 2018

  1. Books vs. the Internet
  2. Oligarchy and the Death of Worlds
  3. How Unpopular Is Trump?
  4. The Current World Peace Paradox
  5. How to Stop Russian Election Interference
  6. The Mueller Indictment
  7. Britain’s Conservative Government on Verge of Breakup
  8. On July 4th as American Evil Comes Home

June 2018

  1. Is Ocasio-Cortez the Start of a Movement?
  2. The Supreme Court Replacement of Justice Kennedy
  3. Why Free Trade Isn’t Efficient
  4. The Class War: The Rich Won and the End of NeoLiberal Capitalism
  5. The Roots of Trump’s Policy of Separating Children from Parents
  6. Visiting the Hospital in Canada
  7. Rate of Antarctic Ice Loss Has Increased Three Times Since 2007
  8. The North Korea Summit
  9. The Destruction of Latin America’s Left and Lessons for Everyone
  10. Canada’s Trump Now Premier of Canada’s Largest Province
  11. Why Republicans Are Unlikely To Impeach Trump
  12. The Yemeni Holocaust

May 2018

  1. Ethics 101: The Difference Between Ethics and Morals
  2. How People Crack or Succeed
  3. Remembering Soldiers’ Service
  4. Trump’s Cancellation of the Korea Meeting Is an Excellent Excuse for Europe and Asia to Break America’s Financial Power
  5. Amazon Rolls Out Face Recognition to Police
  6. Loving-Kindness Isn’t About Morality
  7. Gina Haspel, Torture Supervisor, Confirmed Head of the CIA
  8. Israeli Killings Are the Result of De-Humanization of Palestinians
  9. Al-Sadr to Receive Largest Number of Votes in Iraq Election?
  10. The Banal Hypocrisy of the Western Coverage of Israel
  11. The True Panopticon Will Read Your Thoughts
  12. Trump Pulls Out of the Iran Deal
  13. Further Reading: May 8, 2018
  14. Will Children Ever Be Free Again?
  15. Further Reading: May 4, 2018
  16. Remember the Past & Captain Kirk Accurately
  17. Further Reading: May 3, 2018
  18. Most “High Performers” Are Just Better Parasites
  19. The Left-wing Case for Brexit

April 2018

  1. Peace in Korea and the Trump Paradox
  2. Why the “If You Don’t Work, You Don’t Eat” Is a Hell Ethic
  3. Centrist Elites: Please Save Democracy from Democracy
  4. Assange, Wikileaks, and Shooting the Messenger
  5. Open Thread
  6. Gulf Stream Likely to Reverse Sooner than Expected
  7. The Unemployment Rate Isn’t Used to Keep Unemployment Low (with Graph)
  8. The Push for War with Syria (and Russia?)
  9. Remembering Jesus
  10. The Postal Deal for Last-Mile Delivery for Amazon Is Bad
  11. The Secret Determinant of Your Survival in Catastrophes
  12. Making Sure YOU Stay Alive When Millions Are Dying

March 2018

  1. The Subtle Art of Letting Go of Suffering
  2. The Stuff That Makes All the Crap Worth Bearing
  3. Russia May Not Have Attempted to Assassinate an Ex-Spy in England (Recently)
  4. China and Saudi Arabia Show Anti-Corruption Is Often About Seizing Power
  5. Those Who Fall with Steve Bannon
  6. Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Inevitable Abuses that Inevitably Happen
  7. The Bleak View of the World’s Problems (Or: They’re All Going to Have to Die)
  8. Martin Shkreli Proves that Your Life Is Meaningless to Elites
  9. Doctors Paid More by Opiate Manufacturers Prescribe More Opiates
  10. Trump Is Right to Talk to Kim
  11. What the Tao Teaches Us About the Good Society’s Devolution to the Bad
  12. The Paradox of Brexit
  13. Why Is There so Much Gun Violence in the US?
  14. Modern Violence, Resistance, and the Calculus of Revolution

February 2018

  1. Adam Smith Explains Why Good Guys with Guns Don’t Stop School Shooters
  2. The Problem With Empathy and the Advantage of Sympathy
  3. How to Be Happy in Bad Times
  4. How to Comment Productively
  5. Comment Moderation Is Now ON
  6. Mueller’s Russian Indictments
  7. Is “Skin in the Game” Good?
  8. How to Solve London’s Housing Problems (and Canada’s)
  9. “Privilege” Mostly Isn’t, It Is What Everyone Should Have
  10. Another Mile to the End of Privacy—and Freedom
  11. Slavery, Amazon Version

January 2018

  1. Trump’s Refusal to Impose Sanctions on Russia
  2. Do NOT Use Bitcoin Assuming It Is Anonymous
  3. Morally Neutral Virtues
  4. Sears Canada Steals Pensions
  5. The Slow Bipartisan Slide to Authoritarianism
  6. The Left Improves Control of Britain’s Labour Party
  7. “The Drum Major Instinct,” Speech by Martin Luther King
  8. Major Governments Can Shut Down CryptoCurrencies at Will
  9. Manufacturing Violent People
  10. The 2020 Celebrity Election Will Be Far Crazier than 2016
  11. The Law of Heaven
  12. Happy New Year

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