The Post-Partisan Emporium

Cocaine Rocket Man And I think it's gonna be a long, long line. Good Citizen When a Russian S-300 missile lands in a remote region of Poland just a few miles across the border from Ukraine and nobody sees or hears it, does that trigger Article 5 of the NATO charter? How about when a Russian S-300 missile hits a farm in a remote region of Poland and kills two Poles? What if it was Ukraine who did it? Does that trigger Article 5 for NATO to invade Ukraine? It appears that somewhere between the dirty bomb false flag idea getting the axe in October and Russia handing over Kherson without a fight the western intel handlers of Ukraine’s poison dwarf decided to test the second and third questions intentionally. How can we suspect it was intentional? Anytime things shift ever so slightly toward even the faintest hint of ending this conflict, the agents of global chaos emerge with new ideas for its continuation. New staged bodies of war crimes atrocities, new false flag missile attacks on c...

Where Crypto Went Wrong You want to fix the world with finance? Then fix this: wages' share of a financialized, globalized, speculative-bubble dependent economy have been falling for decades. Fix this and you really will change the world. Anything less changes nothing. Let's start by stipulating my perspective on cryptocurrencies is neither positive nor negative in the usual context  of "to the moon" or "worthless," nor does it track any of the conventional narratives (decentralized finance will conquer the world, etc.) I've thought a lot about "money" and its role in the economic-social order , and its role in the extreme asymmetries of wealth-power-income inequalities that are dismantling the social order in broad daylight. I've also thought a lot about work and its role in social cohesion, individual fulfillment and a productive, level-playing-field economy. I've written two books on "money" and the potential utility of cry...