US ‘Quietly’ Sent Heavy Weapons To Ukraine Well Before Invasion Started, Blinken Reveals
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I keep seeing many posts pop up on places like FluentinFinance and random state subs. All arguing about the minimum wage. How come Elon Musk wealth increased since 2012 but the minimum wage doesn’t? People who make minimum wage deserve to be able to afford everything on a small wage. That the greedy billionaires don’t wanna pay a fair wage. Etc. Etc., Honestly, Reddit could set the world record for most financially and economically illerate people on a […]
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Jack Solowey and David Inserra Progressives accuse their political opponents of “weaponizing the First Amendment” and transforming it “from a shield of the powerless to a sword of the powerful.” Beneath the leftist jargon is a well-worn complaint about American free speech rights: that they apply equally, even to conservatives, corporations, and the religiously devout. Frustrations with the First Amendment’s breadth have routinely inspired attempts to evade its protections and impose censorship by other means. , One popular […]
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The past year has shown that a lot of anti-imperialists tend to exaggerate the strength of the US empire’s enemies. After October 7 many said the attack would unify the Axis of Resistance against Israel and the Zionist entity would fall in short order, but that unified confrontation never materialized because Iran wasn’t willing to take on an entire global empire backed only by a few small militant factions scattered around west Asia. Now Syria has been captured, […]
“Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of imagination. In the world of external phenomena he is only a transformer. All that he can accomplish is to combine the means available in such a way that according to the laws […]
Tweet Here’s a letter to a long-time “unsympathetic but friendly” Café patron. Ms. C__: Thanks for sending Michael Pettis’s recent X-thread on trade. I’m afraid, however, that I don’t share your high opinion of his string of tweets. It’s a march of missteps. I haven’t the time to detail them all, so I’ll address just one of his foundational fallacies. He’s wrong to write that in a world in which governments use neither subsidies nor protectionist interventions “countries […]