PlutoniumKun: Correcting the Considerable Misinformation on the Recent Dublin Riots
A detailed account of the Dublin riot and the related political and social undercurrents in Ireland by our esteemed PlutoniumKun
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Prices of New Houses Drop Further, -18% Year-Over-Year, Sales Drop, High Inventories Rise Further, Supply Jumps
More unhappy news on the residential real estate front: lotta unsold houses out there!
Read more...A Ceasefire Is Far from Lasting Peace – A National Security Expert on the Israel-Hamas Deal
Tamping down ceasefire hopium.
Read more...200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine Is 200 Too Many
How the Monroe Doctrine came to serve as justification for US military adventurism and coup-meistering.
Read more...Seeking Input: Fundraising and the Challenge of Finding New Readers When Google Is Out to Disappear You
Previewing some things we plan to do to attract more readers, and importantly, attention from like-minded sites and authors.
Read more...Links 11/25/2023
How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World – Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen
Micheal Hudson and Steve Keen review how finance capitalism prevailed over industrial capitalism, and why that produced bad outcomes.
Read more...The Environmental Impact of Housing and Heating
Good news on the climate change front: some easy fixes to housing would have an impact.
Read more...Links 11/24/2023
NATO’s Proposed “Military Schengen” Is a Thinly Disguised German Power Play Over Poland
Is Germany going to succeed in advancing a key EU aim, putting a trouble-making Poland in a box?
Read more...Restructuring of the Global Economy – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
A wide-ranging talk, both geographically and historically, on the accelerating changes in the global economy
Read more...Russian And Chinese Focus Alights On Iraq’s Strategically Vital Akkas Project
To what ought to be the considerable embarrassment of the US, China and Russia looks set to cinch a major gas licensing deal in Iraq.
Read more...Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...Hamas-Israel Hostage Deal Only a Pause in Destruction of Gaza
The Hamas-Israel hostage/4 day pause deal does not change the trajectory of the conflict.
Read more...Paging OpenAI Board: ChatGPT on “Handling CEO Termination Delicately” versus Larry Summers, Who Is Still Not Fit to Run a Dog Pound, on New Board
The apparently soon-to-be-ex OpenAI board would have been well served to talk to lawyers about its row qith Sam Altman…or even ChatGPT.
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