Many serious links today, and struggling to find the diversions…
Serious Links
David Westbrook has some real talk on Afghanistan (First Things)
An interview with John Bellamy Foster on “Marx’s Ecology” (MRZine)
A critical reading of Dambisa Moyo’s sensation Dead Aid (MRZine)
Supervisor sympathy: a new kind of civil disobedience? (Boston Globe)
Ta-Nehisi Coates on John Yoo and al-Qaeda (The Atlantic)
Chris Hayes looks at the attempts to revive the public option (The Nation)
Health care- what if McCain had won? (Ezra)
Attack on climate science as OJ moment (HuffPo)
The Chamber of Commerce’s climate obstruction (Yale)
Will the US use contracts to increase middle class wages? (NYT)
Blast from the past: yesterday’s decision seems to confirm the message of my open letter
Diversions
Bill Simmons on how to fix the NBA
“I’d tell you, but I’d have to kill you sooner” -xkcd
This is not a new link, but it is new to me and I thought to pass it on for those interested in monetary economics.
Henry C. K. Liu has the best summary of Chartalism that I have found. He also relates it to international trade, flexible rates, dollar hegemony, and the Chinese trade surplus with the US. This is a must read.
http://www.henryckliu.com/page215.html