Monatsarchive: März 2020

Piketty, in Le Monde: Disons-le d’emblée : le traitement reçu par Bernie Sanders dans les principaux médias aux Etats-Unis et en Europe est inéquitable et dangereux. Un peu partout sur les réseaux et dans les grands quotidiens, on lit que le candidat Sanders … Weiterlesen →

New York Times: Up and down the age spectrum, deaths of despair have been surging for people without a four-year college degree: Case and Deaton — a married couple who are both economists at Princeton — try to explain the … Weiterlesen →

Die Zeit:

Chris Floyd: One reason why it’s so hard to get a handle on American politics, to say anything sensible about it, is that it takes place almost entirely in a hallucination. The country that most Americans feel they are living … Weiterlesen →

Guardian: Elizabeth Warren drops out of 2020 Democratic presidential race … In her call with staff, Warren said her team was “willing to fight, and, when necessary, we left plenty of blood and teeth on the floor”. What is „fighting“ … Weiterlesen →

A democratic departure from the life-threatening sedation provided by cheap-money capitalism would require new solutions to the problems which the latter has only worsened. Consumer credit as compensation for stagnating wages and a growing gap between top and bottom could … Weiterlesen →

A few days ago I was attending an event for Julian Assange at a photo gallery and got to talking with an Argentinean about this image. I mentioned to him that two years ago two Indian and three Argentinean college … Weiterlesen →