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What's Coming in the New Year

War, war, and austerity

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

Jan 03, 2025

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My thoughts about what we’re likely to face in 2025: War with Iran, war with Russia, Austerity at home.

Iran:

Israel’s Solution to Gaza: War on Iran

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

October 28, 2023

A U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is very likely very soon. Here are four reasons why I say that:

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The Question is Called: Waiting for Iran to Answer

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

August 6, 2024

The Question is Called: Waiting for Iran to Answer

So, it looks like we’re heading into a major war. With its assassination in Tehran of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s chief “ceasefire/hostage release” negotiator, topping off its incessant, deliberate slaughter of Palestinian children in Gaza and its accelerated evictions and home demolitions in the West Bank, Israel has erased any scintilla of pretense that i…

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Swallowing Syria

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

December 21, 2024

I am finding it very hard to swallow the disaster that has occurred in Syria, or to digest its consequences. It makes me sick.

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Russia:

Zombie War: Plan B for Ukraine

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

April 11, 2023

Something’s Gotta Give

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Ukraine Negotiation Kabuki

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

April 18, 2022

Though they are not given much of a voice in the mainstream media, many people oppose US/NATO sending more arms to Ukraine and oppose direct Western military intervention, because they see that such actions would only prolong an inevitably lost fight “to the last Ukrainian” and/or they do not think it’s worth risking World War III in order to refuse Ukr…

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The Battle of Ukraine and the War It’s Part Of

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

March 4, 2022

The Battle of Ukraine and the War It’s Part Of

All-in Last week, I wrote that Russia was “on the offensive and impatient” and would “act very soon.” It did, but in a way that far exceeded my expectations. I thought Russia would make a direct military intervention to secure the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics (LDPR) it had newly recognized, and

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Money, Debt, Taxes, and Austerity:

Debt Ceiling Nonsense

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

June 6, 2023

“Could the Treasury skip the rigamarole and pay its bills without bonds? Economically, sure. Why doesn't it? Well, the Fed has regulations governing “overdrafts” -- but apart from these, the answer is plain: to do so would expose the ‘public debt’ as a fiction, and the debt ceiling as a sham

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“Taxpayer Money” Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)

Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist)

September 18, 2018

“Taxpayer Money” Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)

Three assertions:

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