Israel: Armageddon?
Israel, as John Mearshimer put in in a new post, has gotten itself in deep kimchee. Who else will it drag into its desperate mess?
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Ninety Pre-Election Days in Two Charts
Election statistical models performed poorly in the US this year. That’s to be expected when faced with tail risk events.
Read more...Wildfires Can Create Their Own Weather, Further Spreading the Flames − An Atmospheric Scientist Explains How
A worked example of how human activity does not just have direct environment effects but also feedback loops, here on weather.
Read more...How Kamala Harris Sold Out Struggling Homeowners to Save Banks in 2012 and Then Lied About It
Kamala is under scrutiny for policy flip-flops. Even worse is her lying about the badge of shame known as the 2012 National Mortgage Settlement.
Read more...Michael Hudson & Jill Stein: Israel Just Crossed Hezbollah And Iran’s Red Line: WWIII Looms
Israel has just greatly upped the ante with assassinations in Tehran, Beirut, and possibly a third in Damascus. How will the Axis of Resistance respond?
Read more...Repaying Bank Loans Destroys Money
Richard Murphy discusses a key, and not well understood, implication of repaying bank loans.
Read more...Israel Assassinates Hamas Negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran, Leading to Condemnation Across Muslim World; Israel Attempts Assassination of Hezbollah Leader in Beirut; Settler Brownshirt Rampage Against IDF Wins Knesset Backing
Israel escalates as Tony Blinken wrings his hands.
Read more...Climate Change: Can One Specific Example Counter the Denialists?
A look at climate change impacts, recent and prospective, in coastal Georgia. Can evidence like this change some stubborn minds?
Read more...CrowdStrike Lessons: Liability Shields Fuel Risky Practices, Expert Warns
A discussion of the regulatory and behavioral issues that helped produce the Crowdstrike 404.
Read more...Starvation in Sudan: As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate
How a brutal, five year old civil war in Sudan has been producing Gaza-level starvation and war crimes.
Read more...To Win ‘Medicare for All,’ First Reclaim Medicare From Profiteers
Building on the promise of Medicare means taking on the private-sector enriching, skimpy “Medicare Advantage” program
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Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday
Developing country protesters want the IMF to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis. But is BRICS prepared to fill the gap?
Read more...“Censorship to Defend Democracy”
ZOMG, VoxEU starts with the premise that censorship is of course warranted, but finds current implementations have not worked well.
Read more...Ukraine End-Game: Rate-Determining Steps and the Question of Denazification
Further discussion of some of the likely complexities and stumbling blocks in Russia’s slow-motion conquest of Ukraine.
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