Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
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Links 4/11/2023
For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...Saudi- U.S. Relations Sour Further On Huge OPEC+ Surprise Cut
Yes, sports fans, the Administration blew it with Saudis. Dealings may have been set to sour, but Team Biden accelerated the process.
Read more...Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities
The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?
Read more...Freida Berrigan: 90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock seems to be fading….when the urgency is high.
Read more...Links 4/8/2023
Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?
In which the Democrats show their true colors as vicious discipliniarians.
Read more...Book Review: “The Great Displacement” Is a Must-Read
“The Great Displacement” argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society.
Read more...Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Read more...Telegram Leak of US/NATO Document Paints Grim Picture of Condition of Ukraine’s Military
In a bit of synchronicity, after pointing out that the Collective West was more free with information with respect to Ukraine than was ideal during a war, today we have the US government het up about an apparent leak. The New York Times reported that some US and NATO plans for building up the third […]
Read more...The Impact of Inflation
The IMF takes a wee look at who is hurt by and benefits from inflation.
Read more...U.S. Interference in the Middle East – 20 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq – Col. Larry Wilkerson
Col. Larry Wilkerson describes how the media barely covered the damage wrought by the U.S.-led “coalition of the willing” in Iraq
Read more...Waiting for that Too-Much-Discussed Ukraine Counteroffensive
Ukraine and the collective West talk too much.
Read more...The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…
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