Sometimes, I throw around the term neoliberalism as if everyone knows what it means.  Part of this is due to an allergy I have towards folk...

Michael Lewis likes to recount the story about how the charlatans, who were turning Iceland's very conservative banks into the go-go po...

The recent revelations about the use of Panama as a tax haven have largely slipped under the radar.  I think I could put people to sleep at...

According to the latest document dump, the oil industry had an excellent understanding of climate change and their role in the process as e...

Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute the largest banksters because, he said, doing so might ignite another huge ...

Trying to digest the remarkable news that 350,000+ people have plunked down a grand to get on a list to buy a car that won't be made f...

A week ago, I posted an excerpt from Commerce, Christianity, and Civilization, Versus British Free Trade. Letters in Reply to the London Ti...

In my last post, I covered the possibility that China could build an infrastructure of energy renewables for $50 trillion.  This elicited a...

So now we have a hard number on what it would cost to build a global solar infrastructure—the Chinese are telling the world they will do it ...

In January 1876, an editor of The Times of London penned an attack on the protectionist policies of the United States, which Commissioners ...

The United States was established as a republic, at a point in world history when all other systems of government were monarchies, oligarchi...

Those of us who are fans of green technologies must be on guard against sloppy thinking.  It is FAR too easy to ignore the fact that even w...

Chris Hedges interview of Michael Hudson, author of Killing the Host—How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy . Mic...

In 1997, Bill Greider penned what is arguably the finest critique of the whole "free trade" argument.  He called it One World, Re...

Here is the story from the San Jose Mercury News , the newspaper of record for Silicon Valley. And here is the story from Wired magazine ...

Watching the Republican establishment running in circles over their worries about the spectacle that is Donald Trump has literally triggered...

When Russia under Gorbachev and then Yeltsin decided to "modernize" their economy, the guys who rushed in to "help" were...

During the past two weeks there have been a number of internet postings attempting to understand and explain the popularity of Donald Trump....

The first book I ever read that I deemed "serious" was Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld —the UN Secretary-General from 1953 until hi...

With all the attention being given The Donald, I think it is worth remembering that it doesn't really matter who it is, the plain fact i...

In her desperate attempt to escape the labels of "war criminal" and "Wall Street sellout," Hillary Clinton likes to tro...