Matt Taibbi: What I Got Wrong About “Shock Therapy”
After witnessing a historic financial collapse in the former Soviet Union, I thought bad advice from Western economists was a root cause. Now I think failure was the plan.
The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest
Under the Project 2025 plan, wildfire prevention strategies would be heavily stripped down, and primarily focused on one: making it easier for companies to cut down trees and sell them.
Alexander Hamilton’s Assault on Working People
Hamilton’s financial blueprint might have rigged the game in favor of the rich, but democracy hasn’t yet given in — many today are still scrapping with the entrenched elite, determined to wrestle back a fair shot for everyone.
The corruption is real and sickening
The reality that conspiracy deniers cannot bear to see, and that those in power want to keep hidden, is that our society is dominated by one single giant global organisation.
The War on Food and the War on Humanity
The very corporations that are responsible for the problems of the prevailing food system merely offer more of the same, this time packaged in a genetically engineered, ecomodernist, fake-green wrapping.
Let’s cut the crap on gene technology
Society should be asking itself why it needs to trade the security of its regulations for unsecured promises from the visions of genetic engineers, argues molecular biologist Jack Heinemann.
“Sustainably” Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature
The architect of BlackRock’s ETFs has teamed up with a group of companies tied to US intelligence and US government debt trading to tokenize the Amazon rainforest and borgify it with a large-scale sensor network in order to create a new form of “digital gold.”
The Sound of Enforced Silence
It will be silence on the imperium’s doings between now and Nov 5. And if Harris is elected in November, getting her through the following four years will require an escalated version of the censorship regime the national-security state.