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Jul 29 2025 
Overestimation
Underestimating your opponent is foolish. Overestimating yourself is even more foolish.
The West and the Global South regularly underestimate each other and overestimate themselves. This is not helpful and can even be dangerous. It increases the likelihood of World War III. I hope this essay will shake people awake and spur them to action.
When I read… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2025 
From Babylon to Wall Street: How Bankers Make You Poor
Michael Hudson and Jonathan Brown
Michael Hudson: My entire life, ever since I became an economist in, the 1960s was to realize that debt was the major problem that was going to be growing exponentially and stifling society. And it was clear that debt grew at compound interest faster than the economy was able to grow… Continue reading -
Jul 29 2025 
Peace Breaks
With that, everything was solved, at least this morning in this drowsy city by the ocean, where corpses are no longer washed back onto shores.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
We’ll see if this ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand holds. If I hadn’t just returned from Jordan, I would take a bus… Continue reading
