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  • GM Golden Rice Stopped

    On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country. The Stop Golden Rice Network says that the court decision is a victory for farmers and consumers everywhere as the decision goes beyond Golden Rice and insecticidal […]

  • Liz Truss and the West: A Failed Former Prime Minister Speaks

    It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and cringingly juvenile.  But given that some people still sympathise with her and her views, it falls to one to tackle her latest work which resembles other types of the gloomy genre warning […]

  • Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival

    Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival

    Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The Neocon realists are represented by people like Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Steve Bannon and other war hawks who go back to the Bush Years (Rumsfeld, […]

  • The Most Efficient Way to Minimize Social Inequality

    The Most Efficient Way to Minimize Social Inequality

    A Washington Post columnist, Catherine Rampell, headlined on April 5, “The Great Medicaid Purge was even worse than expected” and reported: It’s a tale of two countries: In some states, public officials are trying to make government work for their constituents. In others, they aren’t. This week marks one year since the Great Medicaid Purge […]

  • Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

    Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It

    The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes […]

  • By the Dawn’s Early Light

    The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the […]

  • Why Are U.S.-imposed Problems the Main Headwind China Faces?

    In 2023, China achieved a strong 5.2 percent GDP growth rate, leading major global economies and driving worldwide economic growth, despite facing a complex and severe economic landscape. Yet, what challenges lie ahead for China’s enduring economic growth? In the special edition of The Hub, Wang Guan talks to Jeffrey Sachs, professor and director of […]

  • Is There an Answer to Inflation?

    Is There an Answer to Inflation?

    Inflation is a scourge on those cursed with living under the capitalist order. It especially punishes those least able to weather the pain of constantly falling behind rising prices and expanding debt. Inflation harms nearly all working people whose income growth trails the rise in prices, including those with union contracts that bridge periods of […]

  • Imperial Fruit: Bananas, Costs and Climate Change

    The curved course of the ubiquitous banana has often been the peel of empire, its sweetness masking a sharp, bitter legacy.  Arab conquerors introduced it to the African continent as they cultivated a slave market.  European imperialism did the same to the Americas via the Canary Islands, insinuating the luscious fruit into markets of solid […]

  • Unbecoming American: At Election Time

    2024 is a year full of elections. For what they are worth they also present a display of the wealth and poverty of language with which active and passive electorates are confined, at least to the extent there is any serious effort to relate the utterances incidental to the process with the lived reality such […]

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