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#WolffBites: If AI models are our technical future, China has the best and cheapest, not the US. Like electric vehicles, solar panels, batteries, etc.

#WolffBites: In capitalist healthcare systems, profits drive firms' ads about drugs, devices, procedures. The public learns to suspect the validity of those ads. Crooks then exploit those suspicions. www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...

RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview | CNN PoliticsIn attempting to rewrite the history of the US Covid-19 response, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously re...www.cnn.com

#WolffBites: Why Americans shifted to oppose genocide against colonized Palestinians: it is a way to admit and oppose the genocide against colonized indigenous Americans.

#WolffBites: Biden used 2022 Chips Act to give US corporations $ millions in grants. Trump gives much more but not grants. Rather investments. When you cant beat China, join em. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

Trump administration adds 6 chipmakers to the government's stock portfolio, which now spans 30 companiesThe Trump administration expanded the government's investment portfolio this week after six semiconductor companies signed letters of intent to receive government assistance in return for "a minority,...finance.yahoo.com

#WolffBites: A.I.'s biggest negative may not be job loss. New research shows A.I.'s bigger impact is to lower wages for already lower paid US workers. How capitalism uses technology. www.axios.com/2026/07/30/g...

U.S. economy grows at 1.5% rate in second quarterThe report captures a three-month stretch shaped by the Middle East conflict and a surge in energy prices.www.axios.com

#WolffBites: In politics we replaced kings with democracies. Lets do same in workplaces: replace CEOs with workers' democratic voting.

#WolffBites: If you can't beat them, join them. Euro car-makers partner with Chinese. US will too. Chinese win the competition. www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri...

Inside the deals bringing Chinese carmakers into Europe’s factoriesIn the latest DriveSmart newsletter, Steve Fowler unpacks Ford’s new deal with China’s Geely – and asks whether Europe’s carmakers are wheeling in their own Trojan Horsewww.independent.co.uk

#WolffBites: US and EU leaders fight unwinnable, costly wars (Iran, Ukraine), avoid diplomacy to protect tough-guy reputations. thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/western-di...

Western diplomacy is dead: a post-diplomacy worldWhy western leaders refuse dialogue with their adversaries while pursuing unwinnable warsthepeacemonger.substack.com

#WolffBites: Spasms of a dying colonialism: (1) US fantasies of taking Canada, etc., (2) Euro fantasies of defeating, splitting-up and then taking Russia, and (3) Israel fantasies of taking the Middle East.

#WolffBites: President "Forever Wars" just opened another trade war with Canada. Because, he tells us, all his other wars (Iran, Ukraine, Gaza - with Israel) are "huge successes." www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...

Trump hits Canada with new 50% tariffsPresident Trump imposed new 50% tariffs on many Canadian imports on everything from wine to hockey sticks to cement.www.usatoday.com

#WolffBites: The "Scapegoat-ing President," Trump blames immigrants, Iranians, Democrats, Chinese, Venezuelans, Cubans, and now again Canadians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods from alcohol to hockey sticksRift between the two countries grows after Trump confronted Mark Carney at Sunday’s FIFA World Cup Final over wildfire smoke drifting south into U.S. citieswww.independent.co.uk

#WolffBites: New, better data on US economy: (1) 53% own their homes (not old 65% data), and (2) for under 35, only 22% own their homes (not old 37% data). Housing crisis deepens. www.axios.com/2026/07/21/h...

Homeownership rate in the U.S. is lower than you think, new research findsThe findings show that younger Americans are having an even harder time in trying to buy a house.www.axios.com

Hello friends, please find my latest article "What is to be Done, 2026?" on @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/what-is-to...

What is to be Done, 2026?In the second half of the 19th century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Chernyshevsky, reflected that time’s deepening concerns and anxieties in his 18...democracyatwork.substack.com

#WolffBites: US banking oligarchs profited off of the shift of US manufacturing to China over the last generation. Now they complain that "we" cannot manufacture enough weapons for all the wars we need. Bizarre! www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/amer...

American Oligarchs Sell the Ground Out From Underneath Their Own Feet | naked capitalismTheir "Arsenal of Democracy” is breaking down (a good thing!); too bad it doesn’t mean redirecting social capital toward social needs.www.nakedcapitalism.com

#WolffBites: Careful, Mr. Trump, before you charge Canada for polluting US air. Remember: US is one of our planet's worst polluters. Charging for pollution will cost US dearly. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

US drives rise in global emissions as utilities turn back to coal, report showsThe United States accounted for about a third of the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, as higher gas prices pushed power producers ​back to coal, an Energy Institute report showed on Tu...www.reuters.com

Hello friends I would like to invite you to read my latest article on @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/07/amer...

Richard Wolff on the Left’s New Openings in 2026As American hegemony falters and a new global order emerges, Richard Wolff argues the crises around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz reveal capitalism entering another era of historic upheaval — and the ...jacobin.com

#WolffBites: "Why call Trump "nihilist" or "out to wreck everything"? Because since 1945, big business got the GOP relentlessly to undo the New Deal: Trump aims to finish the job.

#WolffBites: Hard threatening faces will scare children. Only a cringing Secretary of the Treasury could put that face on a new US $ 1 gold coin.

#WolffBites: Starmer gone as UK leader. He badly damaged his "labor" party, grossly subsidized Zelensky, and wrecked Corbyn's alternative leadership with phony accusations of anti-semitism. No loss. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starmer says it's the 'end of my political journey' at his final Prime Minister's QuestionsMPs on all sides of the House of Commons paid tribute to the departing PM, traded jokes and shared anecdotes.www.bbc.com

#WolffBite: On Bastille Day, celebrating France's 1789 revolution, we are reminded that revolutions happen when people lose confidence in social institutions (see Gallup poll below).