Author Archives: Yves Smith

Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Emerging Economy Victims of Climate Change

Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities

Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites

Slouching Towards Reverse Colonialism

How sanctions against Russia are achieving the polar opposite of what colonialism was all about: controlling and exploiting resources.

Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will

Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems

Links 10/26/2022

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture

Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.

Energy Loss Is Single Biggest Component of Today’s Electricity System

A comparison of efficiency of electrical sources shows renewables come out markedly ahead.

IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented

The IEA has finally, late in the game, goten the nerve to sound alarms about energy shortages. But nary a word about the role of sanctions

Links 10/25/2022

Wall Street Journal on “U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle” Focuses on Personalities Over End of Unipolar Era

Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.

“The US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia”

How Russia is reading Western, particularly US, nuke talk.

Western Narrative Escalation Over Ukraine War: A Warning of Coming Strong Countermeasures? Or a Sign of Desperate Impotence?

The Western press has gotten even more screechy as the Ukraine Kherson offensive has yet to materialize. What could this portend?

Scientist GM Is Not Impressed by Latest Preprint on Covid Lab Leak Hypothesis

Another dodgy Covid preprint gets way too much attention.