When Marshal Kutuzov Joins General Winter and General Surovikin, What Happens Next on the Front
An overview of how Russia approaches war, and then a discussion of why Pavlovka matters in the Ukraine campaign.
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COP27 Fiddling as World Warms
COP27, the latest climate ‘blah-blah,’ began with rich nation backpedalling due to the NATO sanctions-induced energy crisis.
Read more...Links 11/15/2022
Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia
In a massive exercise in looting, two Senators are pushing for massive buys of outdated weapons systems, with the Ukraine war as cover.
Read more...Are Circumstances Now Aligned for Possible War in the Middle East?
With instability in Iran, a right-wing government in Israel and new Gulf alliances, the Middle East may be ripe for war
Read more...Kherson, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Under-the-Radar Electrical War
The upset about the Kherson pullback seems disproprtionate. What assumptions did it expose?
Read more...Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Were Up to No Good, Including Their Customer Agreement
In the unlikely event you have any doubt, Sam Bankman-Fried and his merry band of FTX rogues look mighty dishonest.
Read more...Links 11/12/2022
Wilkerson on Militarism and Regrets About Iraq War
On the cost of war, particularly the kind the US has no business fighting.
Read more...Book Review: The Surpisingly Imprecise History of Measurement
Why measurement is hard!
Read more...Repairing a Fractured World Economy?
Richard Kozul-Wright describes the current world economic disorder, and discusses possibilities and limits of effective regional responses
Read more...Oil Executives Warn G7 Price Cap Could Lead To Stranded Tankers
The more you look at the G7 Russian oil price scheme, the worse it appears.
Read more...How Workers and Pro-Union Politicians Team Up for Fair Trade
The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
Read more...Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch
Rising housing and medical costs meet fixed incomes to push older peope into desperation and homelessness.
Read more...Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
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