Senate Hearing on Market Failure in Critical Minerals

March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)Leave a comment

Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing entitled, “To Receive Testimony on Rebuilding American Critical Minerals
Supply Chains.”

Hezbollah – The Political Manifesto [2009]

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hezbollah – The Political Manifesto

Cogs, Cracks, and Consequences

February 26, 2026February 28, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

The government agency relying on Wall Street to go up against China’s soft power +

February 23, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

The Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a little-known government agency, opened its first Wall Street outpost last week — and it’s got $205 billion and a mission to out-invest China on the world stage.

The government agency relying on Wall Street to go up against China’s soft power

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Protected: If There Were a Biography About Me, What Would the Title Be?

February 14, 2026February 20, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Pandora’s Box: Hope as Illusion

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

I learn something new every day. I have Gustavo Horta to thank for sending me back to a story I hadn’t revisited since kindergarten: “Pandora’s Box.”

Democracies, Demo-cracias, Corporatocracies, and Demonocracy

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)4 Comments

I usually use the translate feature on my iPhone for reading, but for this repost, I’ve used Google Translate. While some nuance may be lost, I hope the “gist” remains clear. I haven’t parsed every linked source yet, but I find myself in deep agreement with Gustavo Horta’s critique of “Demo-cracias.”

Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)9 Comments

Leading left economists Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis jointly wrote an article for the British newspaper, the Guardian this week. It was headlined as “We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps.” Jason Hickel is professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a visiting senior fellow at LSE. Yanis Varoufakis is the leader of MeRA25, a former finance minister and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.

Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?