Our popular daily Links, including British humor, Orwell, four moptop yobbos, NYC nighlife museum, kids w/ long COVID, Noam Chomsky, Matt Stoller, Craig Murray, Caitlin Johnstone.
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Links on
About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered
Bonus antidote:
A herd of wild Asian elephants has been wandering through cities in southwest China
Authorities are baffled as to why they have travelled so far from home https://t.co/C9fh99Yl9tpic.twitter.com/ePpk4KY4nP
This is an elephant epic. I hope they arrive at their destination safely.
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Links on
About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about
Germany authorizes pipe-laying for Nord Stream 2 in its waters TASS and Scoop: Biden to waive sanctions on company in charge of Nord Stream 2 Axios. ZOMG Putin has kompromat on Biden ZOMG ZOMG.
Does not make sense IMO. Especially with possible return of Iranian energy on world market. Only way maybe it does, is if some got spooked by the gas shortage caused by the recent hack attack and the political folk in Team Dem overruled the warmongers in this instance because they’re not happy with re-election prospects in 2022. With energy prices and inflation spiking voters could get uncooperative, and since the warmongers got their preferred team in power, they are on board with that.