Troubling Trends in Armenia Mirror Pre-War Ukraine
The country is once again at the center of international competition, Nazi ghosts are being resurrected, and anti-Russian attitudes are gaining favor.
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Links 2/5/2024
Red Sea Chaos Highlights Problems With Italy’s Plan to Be European Energy Hub
Was the idea ever all that well thought out in the first place?
Read more...What If We Treated People Who Use Drugs as Full Human Beings?
Does punishing people for substance use worsen the pain and isolation that make drugs so appealing?
Read more...Links 2/4/2024
German Establishment Prepares to Cross the Rubicon
A questionable report on a deportation plot causes a nationwide meltdown. A ban of the Alternative for Germany party is looking likely unless it loses support. Farmers and strikers join government’s enemy list.
Read more...Possibility of Wildlife-to-Human Crossover Heightens Concern About Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease, which is contagious and always fatal, is spreading rapidly in deer, and the barrier to a spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed.
Read more...Can a Real Left Party Save Germany From Itself?
Sahra Wagenknecht wants to inject some reason back into German politics with a focus on the working class, but to do that she will also have to take on the Atlanticists running the country into the ground.
Read more...Links 1/22/2024
Why Don’t More Countries Take Action Against Israel?
Overwhelming evidence points to genocide causing widespread public outrage, but only a few countries sever economic ties with Israel.
Read more...Book Review: The Secrets of Earth’s ‘Silvery Sister’
Earth may orbit the sun, but Rebecca Boyle argues that our planet cannot be understood without considering the moon.
Read more...Links 1/21/2024
Orbán Outfoxes the EU in Nationalism vs. Technocracy Fight
The ongoing drama between Budapest and Brussels over Ukraine and the “rule of law” is really about who gets to control Hungary.
Read more...In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital
By Mitchell Black and Noam N. Levey. Cross posted from KFF Health News. It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall stack of debt collection lawsuits that McAlester Regional Medical Center recently brought to small-claims court in this Oklahoma farm community. Hackler, a lawyer who sues patients on […]
Read more...Germany’s ‘Krisenmodus’ Has No End in Sight
German elites look to ban opposition party and switch out the chancellor without changing the policies that make him so unpopular – anything to keep up the fight against Russia.
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