The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recent decision to award Pfizer $1.24 billion for COVID-19 vaccines has renewed debate over the government’s continued investment in mRNA technology. The contracts, awarded on June 1, include about $735.7 million for pediatric COVID-19 vaccines and nearly $505.3 million for adult…
The United States could bring the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to a rapid end by stopping the supply of weapons. At the Anchorage summit last summer between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there was some optimism that the conflict in…
Sad to say it doesn’t seem to matter what we the people think about war and military spending.. President Trump doesn’t care that at least 70% of Americans are against the Iran War. Dick Cheney infamously replied, “So?” when he was told by a reporter that Americans opposed…
Professor Michael Hudson, in a recent discussion, takes issue with those who speak today of the ‘decline of the US hegemon’. A decline implies something goes up and down, Hudson says, but it always recovers.“But there’s never been any such thing statistically as a cycle … There’s no…
The insane cult of the masquerade which rules us. This is an essay about the false god of Equality. I argue that the worship of false idols of the Revolution such as Equality are the inevitable result of a system of make belief which is hostile to…
These immense hidden costs will not show up in GDP until they collapse the entire house of speculative gambling cards propping up the global economy. I approach all AI topics with several things in mind. One is the nature of problems, which implicitly define what qualifies as solutions, and the…
Congress has refused to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to spy on Americans without a warrant. The Democrats overwhelmingly voted against it, but the nays wouldn’t have prevailed had it not been for 19 Republicans. The vote to…
Maybe this time, Charlie Brown will actually get to kick the football. Maybe this time, Lucy won’t pull it away at the last second. Trump – in the role of Charlie Brown – keeps trying to kick the football, which takes the form of a “deal” with the…
“I love the inflation.”— Donald Trump (June 2026) “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”— Donald Trump (May 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying…
Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech. — Benjamin Franklin The Trump administration is by far the most tyrannical presidential administration since that of Abraham Lincoln. Anyone who is halfway paying attention knows this to be true. Trump,…
