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“We’ll Look at Everything:†More Thoughts on Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
The Trump agenda, it seems, is not set in stone. The president-elect has a range of advisors with as many ideas... [read more]
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding... [read more]
California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?
In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped... [read more]
Voting violations in an EU member state
Voting violations such as ballot rigging, vote buying and control are acts we associate with the shadier, non democratic nations of the world. However such practices are alive and well right here in the EU, writes David Eade.... [read more]
Murdoch, Mensch and a new England Manager
The London Progressive Journal gives its take on current events in the latest editorial... [read more]
Reactive Mismeasures: The New Yorker and the "New" Cold War Propaganda (Part 3)
This is the third part of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on a recent article posing as journalism in the March 6, 2017 issue of The New Yorker... [read more]
Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution
Central banks have been pumping money into the global economy without a whole lot to show for it... [read more]
Can Jill Carry Bernie’s Baton?
Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate... [read more]
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California?
Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead... [read more]
Jeremy Corbyn’s Speech at the Labour Conference
The politicos still don’t get it. The public do... [read more]
The Failure of Innovation in the Anglo-Saxon Economies
George Tait Edwards examines the role of innovation in economic development... [read more]
Urgent calls for a General Election in Bulgaria
On Sunday 12 May Bulgaria will hold its general election. The outcome will not only be closely awaited by the people of that country but by fellow European Union States and organisations such as Transparency International, which has been monitoring corruption in Bulgaria for over a decade, writes David Eade.... [read more]
Transcendental argument
Through a mist of tears, I caught up with the conclusion of 'My Transsexual Summer', Channel 4’s four-part fly-on-the-wall series, says W Stephen Gilbert.... [read more]
"Unfashionable" Balkan Nationalism?
Victor Petroff on the rise of right-wing populism in Bulgaria.... [read more]
Popular Entertainment Update: Britney Spears in Trouble, Martin Amis is Not a Racist
David Floyd feels sorry for semi-clothed pop megastar Britney Spears, a product of turbocapitalism.... [read more]
Florida Cubans and Republican Foreign Policy
Alexa Van Sickle on the influence of Florida's Cuban exile community.... [read more]