1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (889+ words) This article was originally published by Truthout On the heels of their victory on silica-based powder, baristas are urging patrons to boycott until they win a contract. The boycott of Starbucks’ multinational coffee chain is still in full swing this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (781+ words) Increasingly, prominent analysts are saying the United States will have to “print” its way out. But using whose printing press, printing what? An August 22, 2026 article in Forbes compares the effect of Fed and Treasury bond purchases like this: Under quantitative…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (686+ words) By shifting unpredictable building costs onto renters. In Alicia Yu’s first post-college apartment, a studio in Burbank, monthly utility costs were calculated through a process she’d never heard of. Her landlord had hired a third-party service to determine her share…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1846+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump administration’s new campaign to strangle Iran “economic D-Day.” John Mearsheimer calls it what it really is: a desperate Hail Mary from an empire that has run out of military options. “The fact…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (238+ words) Juan Cole Informed Comment In the first six months of the year, Turkiye’s energy import bill alone rose $2 billion over what had been projected, which helped widen the country’s trade deficit. One of the ways Turkish consumers have responded to…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1710+ words) Washington doesn’t want countries selling Treasury securities, as yields rise and global dedollarization grows. The US government quietly bailed out Japan this August. The US Treasury intervened in the foreign exchange market to prop up Japan’s currency, the yen. It…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (190+ words) Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. In 1935, the Haitian Marxist poet Jacques Roumain (1907–1944), angered by the constant attempt to suffocate his country, wrote ‘Guinea…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1321+ words) scheerpost.com The Fight For Sovereignty In The Shadow Of A Data Center Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another…...