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What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About The $600 Unemployment Bonus
by Bradley Thomas | Jul 12, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal government’s program of supplemental unemployment benefits of up to $600 per week, as provided for in the CARES Act, is set to expire at the end of July. Whether or not to extend this program is setting up to become a contentious political battle mere...
Ghislaine Maxwell Indictment
by Steven Woskow | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog
The indictment here She is accused of: Conspiracy to have sex with minors Trafficking in minors for sexual activity Perjury But, will we ever find out who the "others" are? Maxwell is being held under federal protection: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal officials were...
Pentagon Admits There Is No Corroboration of ‘Bountygate’ Claims
by Jason Ditz | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Continuing the allegation of Russian bounty payments to Taliban to kill U.S. troops, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley both told the House Armed Services Committee that they’ve seen no corroboration of the claim, nor do they...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Scott Horton
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
Charlie Savage, NYT, CIA Climb Down From Russia Bounties Hoax
by Scott Horton | Jul 6, 2020 | Blog
The headline blares that it's a big "administration" conspiracy to play up doubts and play down proofs of the bounties plot, but the text itself reveals that it's the National Intelligence Council that did the new review and that even the CIA, the agency out in front...
(Haha) Chelsea Clinton Denies She Was Ever Close Friends with Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Madam’
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog
Child rapists' close associates say what? Politico said Maxwell first grew close to the Clinton family after former president Bill Clinton left office, and eventually became friends with Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation. According to the news...
Want To Reform The Criminal Justice System? End The Drug War.
by Steven Woskow | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog
John Stossel at Reason. John interviews Dr Carl L. Hart on the drug war and ending it. Carl Hart is the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist at the New York State...
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Interview Show 20th Anniversary
I started on the radio in late 1998, but today is the 20th anniversary of the interview show. First of 5,894 so far was the great Alan Bock on Iraq, three days after the marines pulled down Saddam's statue in Baghdad. The full archive is here.
The Robber Barons: Historical Fact vs. Progressive Mythology
The standard theory of monopoly within the mainstream of the economics profession is that monopolies increase prices and reduce production levels compared to competitive industries. So I gathered historical economic data on prices and production for seventeen of the...
Conversation on Bro History Podcast
I had a great conversation on Zionism, antisemitism, and the Palestine question with Henry Szamota and Danny Abdeljabbar on the Bro History podcast, which you can find in all the usual podcast places. Or listen here. I hope you enjoy it.
Interview on Agora: The Podcast
I was recently interviewed by the hosts of Agora: The Podcast. We talked about the political landscape, my own political development over 50 years, and more. Have a listen here.
Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
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