No, capitalism has not lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty

The illusion of progress is due to an economic sleight of statistical hand and a selective historical analysis that sanitizes capitalism’s brutal human toll Ryan Ward Feb 10, 2025 Reconstruction of historical global extreme poverty rates. Source: Roser and Hasell (2021) and World Bank (2020); https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix Anyone who […]

‘That Is An Invented Fiction’: Mike Lee Says Elon Musk, DOGE Are Not ‘Messing With’ Social Security

At a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke about Social Security in the budget proposal. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat […]

East Oakland community organizers seek to resurrect proposed University police department to secure nearby neighborhoods

by: Matthew Holloway 2025-02-17 Source: Law Enforcement Today News Oakland Homeless by is licensed under Conversation Michael Oxford – AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat OAKLAND, CA— As critical budget woes and the utter insufficiency of political support for policing in Oakland, CA have dominated recent news cycles, […]

The Ugly Face of Capitalism

Troy Southgate Feb 17, 2025 WHY am I not surprised that the trout-faced billionaire responsible for throwing his money at Silicon Valley’s transhumanists looks less and less human every day? It’s not even like he’s in the process of transitioning from one form of existence to another; in […]

J.D. Vance Reads Europe The Riot Act, Hezbollah Begins to Rebuild, Jake Sullivan’s “Catastrophic” AI Warning, The Fateful Nineties, Is the Wilderness Too Wild

J.D. Vance Reads Europe The Riot Act, Hezbollah Begins to Rebuild, Jake Sullivan’s “Catastrophic” AI Warning, The Fateful Nineties, Is the Wilderness Too Wild? Niccolo Soldo Feb 17, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because […]

The Russian Depopulation

View this email in your browser The Russian Depopulation by Peter Zeihan on February 17, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, […]

All Trump

All Trump David Pan Whatever one might think about Trump’s policies, there can be no disputing his extraordinary effectiveness in branding and marketing. Even before taking office, he was dominating headlines. Since January 20, it has been all Trump, all the time, on all platforms all over the world. […]

Greedland

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Among the fusillade of President Trump’s executive orders, policy musings, and social media eructations, a seemingly absurd set of territorial demands have emerged: trading Puerto Rico for Denmark, incorporating Canada as the fifty-first state, annexing Gaza, and seizing authority of the Panama Canal away […]

Russia After Russia

View this email in your browser Russia After Russia by Peter Zeihan on February 18, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, […]

Is Fascism on the Rise in Germany?

By William T. Hathaway The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. Labor and business have cooperated to achieve social and economic stability. But that consensus isn’t functioning anymore. The standard of living is […]

Why Jews Are Fleeing the West

By Joel Kotkin February 14, 2025/in Urban Affairs Jewish history has long been defined by migratory movements away from trouble and towards safer places. Over the past half millennia, the safest harbours for ‘the world’s foster children’, as David Mamet put it, have generally been English-speaking countries, first […]