Feudalism

No politician from either of the Two Party/One Party imbroglio will ever mention anything about this Absentee Landlord disgrace. Sadly, absentee landlords have been with us since time in memoriam. These people were even mentioned in the story of Jesus in the …

In and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, Michael Hudson offers a historical account of the role that debt played in ancient societies. In focusing on how such societies dealt with the pr…

Good morning on Sunday, August 4, 2019, National Chocolate Chip Day. In the U.S. it’s Coast Guard Day, Sisters’ Day, and Single Working Womens’ Day.  I will call my sister! Today’s Hili is up early because I couldn’t sleep. News of the Day: Now there’s been…

So, Canada, the Canadian people unfortunately are deprived of honest representation of provincial desires, provincial needs, by the fact that the financial sector, the banks, are pretty much running the country.         – Michael Hudson On the weekend of Jul…

Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini. File photo: ANA THIS week, unemployment in South Africa edged to 29%, the worst its been since 2008. Then Eskom posted an eye-watering, breathtaking R20.7 billion annual loss.In other news, King Goodwill Zwelithini will struggl…

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via Guerilla-Capitalism.com, A few months ago I was on the Lite Show (Litecoin) podcast, we got to talking about Facebooks forthcoming crypto currency, which hadnt been named yet. I mused then that it would totally suck for the enti…

Job growth will likely be concentrated in the black and dark blue counties, while those in light gray will see almost no job growth over the next decade. Since the economy began adding jobs after the Great Recession nine years ago, about 21.5 million jobs ha…

National culture is difficult to achieve due to a trend towards Islamising aspects of Malay literature, says Faisal Tehrani. (Facebook pic) LANGKAWI: The religionisation of Malay literature over the decades has become a stumbling block to realising the natio…

Novara Media's Aaron Bastani discusses his new book Fully Automated Luxury Communism and why the future isn't coming fast enough You can say many things about those on the socialist left but accusing them of not dreaming big wouldnt be one of them. From Rudo…

Ten thousand desert rats, 10,000 fish, 14,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs, 1,000 fat oxen and many more creatures slaughtered, cooked and served: that is how Ashurnishabal of Mesopotamia (883-859 BCE) pampered almost 70,000 guests for 10 days. The Archbishop of Yorks …