US-China Decoupling: Rhetoric and Reality
An update on how the much-ballyhooed US economic divorce from China is progressing.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2023
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Read more...Biden Administration Migrant-Friendly Southern Border Policy Creating Splits Among Democrats; NYC About to Eject 4,500 from Shelters
den”s “even more open borders” policy is generating resistance among some Democrats.
Read more...Links 8/30/2023
Extended Vaccination Boosters Against the RBD of Spike Protein and the Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
A carefully done study, admittedly on mice, suggests that more Covid vaccinne boosting is counterproductive in immune repsone terms.
Read more...Imperialism: How the Struggle of Both Classes and Nations Creates Our World
How imperailasm has determined much of the structure of the international economy and that in turn affects domestic interests.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: China’s Unsustainable, Unbalanced Growth Model and Its Current Economic Wobbles
Musings on the routes for China out of its economic problems and whether China will actually take them.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/29/2023
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Read more...US Weaponizes Environmental Rhetoric to Seek Water Hegemony
An update on jockeying over critical water resources and how the US is positioning itself.
Read more...Links 8/29/2023
Brazil Mulls Phasing Out Physical Cash, As Central Bank Prepares to Launch CBDC
How did Brazil, a country that until recently was heavily dependent on cash, reach a point where its politicians are now considering eliminating it altogether? One of the answers is a three-letter word that is now ubiquitous across the country: Pix.
Read more...Zelensky’s Latest TV Interview Shows How Much the Ukraine Conflict’s Dynamics Have Shifted
Zelensky has moderated some posiitons as US and EU enthusiasm for Project Ukraine is falling. But don’t get your hopes up for an endgame
Read more...Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion
The IMF made a comprehensive tally of fossil fuels subsidies. Both the level and the trajectory are sobering.
Read more...New York Times Bungles Page One School Ventilation Story through Lazy Reporting
Perhaps, after three years and counting of Covid, we should be grateful for any content that isn’t outright eugenicist.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/28/2023
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