The War on Genetically-Modified-Food Critics
Debunking the idea that genetically modified food has been proven to be safe.
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Michael Hudson: U-V: Usury to Vested Interests
Parts U-V in the Insider’s Economic Dictionary
Read more...John Helmer: What is Russia’s Answer to Greece’s Plan B? Smile, Blow the Whistle, Pass the Red Card
Helmer’s post confirms our view that Russia will not rescue Greece, and for many of the same reasons that we’ve stated.
Read more...How Gaza’s Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of an International Power Struggle
Guess what? Almost all the current wars, uprisings, and other conflicts in the Middle East are connected by a single thread, which is also a threat: these conflicts are part of an increasingly frenzied competition to find, extract, and market fossil fuels whose future consumption is guaranteed to lead to a set of cataclysmic environmental crises.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/26/15
Today’s Water Cooler: Clinton fundraising scandal continues to fester, Emmanueldammerüng, SEC and whisteblowers,
Read more...The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change
The cost of delaying climate action has been studied extensively. A one-decade delay in addressing climate change would lead to about a 40% increase in the net present value cost of addressing climate change.
Read more...The Alternative in Greece
Let us begin with what should be indisputable: the Eurogroup agreement that the Greek government was dragged into on Friday amounts to a headlong retreat.
Read more...Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/25/15
Today’s Water Cooler: Bernie in Iowa, Clinton’s loot, net neutrality, ObamaCare crapshoot, good news for solar energy, stranger danger
Read more...Wolf Richter: What the Heck Has Suddenly Hit American Consumers?
Consumer confidence just hit an airpocket. Is this turbulence or a harbinger of things to come?
Read more...Ilargi: How Far Is It From Kiev To Athens?
A detailed analysis of why the unbelievably uncreditworthy Kiev government is getting big IMF loans.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/24/15
Today’s Water Cooler: Tribalist memes, more on the DNC autopsy, J-Yel before Congress, Citizen Four team on Reddit, coral eats plastic
Read more...Bill Black: HSBC CEO – My Pay Was so Outrageous I Had to Use Tax Havens to Hide it from My Peers
This tidbit from HSBC reveals a new low in the standards of banking, which given how low those already are, amounts to an accomplishment of sorts. Perhaps we should create a Stuart Gulliver Award for other instances of creative extreme seaminess. Nominees?
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Greece – Dead Man Walking
Rose focuses on an issue that reader Swedish Lex and other have pointed out: the heavy-handed actions of Germany in the tempestuous negotiations between the Eurozone and Greece have wound up being a major own goal.
But the bigger issue that Rose raises is that last week’s ugly negotiations, in combination with the fiasco in Ukraine, is exposing Germany as a lousy hegemon, which he argues is producing a political crisis in Germany and fracture lines in Europe.
Read more...The Mitt Romney Connection: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (VII)
… while FBI agents, moved from white collar fraud investigations, help search behind bushes for an Al Qaeda terrorist, hundreds of swindlers roam Utah. – Lynn Packer, utahpoliticalcapitol.com Mitt would make a good Moses. Think about it. – Former Romney campaign official By Richard Smith Let’s start in 2006, with one of The Seattle Times’ […]
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