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Iran’s response to Israel attacking its embassy and killing an Iranian general and various other Iranian military personnel took place last night. Depending on various sources, ~200 drones and 20–30 ballistic missiles were used. While the Israeli side exaggerates the drones and missiles it shot down and the Iranian side exaggerates the hits, the videos … Read more
The housing crisis in the US is at the level of a calamity: Researchers examined the median home prices last year for roughly 575 U.S. counties and found that home prices in 99% of those areas are beyond the reach of the average income earner, who makes $71,214 a year, according to ATTOM. Homes “unaffordable” … Read more
As a result of the pandemic and how it affected the economy, the working people were able to get some concessions from the system in the form of aid or salary increases. This led to their life standards getting higher temporarily. Temporarily, because in the past few years, the free market did everything to take … Read more
And that’s why they fail against reactionary movements We are witnessing various Western countries — mainly Anglo-American ones — fall into reactionaryism. While there are sizable segments that speak against this societal collapse and regression, the reactionary movements seem to be more powerful, persistent, focused, and with momentum. Things being how they are, various countries will end up with … Read more
That in the photo is Biden with union workers doing a photo op a few months earlier. And just a few days ago he has been saying that ‘labor built America’… US Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’ …and that’s his Fed Chair, trying to push down wages for everyone by … Read more
More US and European media outlets have started to admit that ‘the West’ lost the war in Ukraine. The supporters of Ukraine now started pressuring it into peace talks in which it will end up having to concede to all or most of Russia’s pre-war policy positions. The media efforts to ‘shape perception’ and ‘frame’ … Read more
It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it would put economic and political pressure on the … Read more
Just, until a year ago, the US economy relied on a very specific paradigm. Taking advantage of the international reserve currency status of the dollar, it ran on a cash-aflush economy into which high amounts of dollars kept entering through mechanisms like the Federal Reserve and the fractional reserve lending of private banks. This setup … Read more
Very simple: When the future likely holds a never-ending cascade of menial, back-breaking labor for scarce pay, people collectively turn unmotivated. The motivation concept is not at all different at that social segment and socioeconomic strata of society than the motivation concept which is so closely monitored and nurtured in tech. The only difference is … Read more
In 10 years, the last cadre of statesmen, military personnel, and bureaucrats who were educated up in the last period of the Soviet Union would have either passed away or become too old to get involved in anything. Meanwhile, an entire generation who neither knew the Soviet Union nor the difficult Yeltsin years would have … Read more