Seasonal Patterns That Farmers Trusted for Generations Have Suddenly Turned Unpredictable
Intense rains, extreme heat, and unstoppable pests are wiping out crops and farmers’ livelihoods as climate change scrambles the weather.
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: How They Stack Up on Reusing Waste
BRICS members have a lot to teach each other, and the advanced world, about waste reuse.
Read more...How the Green Revolution Went Awry: Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Big Ag, which has shaped food policies, profits more from “innovations “in food production, processing, and distribution than food security.
Read more...Maybe It Wasn’t Such a Hot Idea to Turn Libya into a Failed State: 2026 Shortages Edition
Europe sure could use Libya’s oil, gas, and petrochemical products now, but the self-destructive policy there is illuminating today.
Read more...How Africa Keeps Losing Despite China v. West Race for Minerals
Africa supplies the minerals for the tech boom – but how it winds up losing out on the gains
Read more...Coffee Break: Pluto’s Republic, Dietary Guidelines, Vaccine Nonsense, Ancient Poison Arrows, and Renaissance DNA
Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic. With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to happen eventually. From Corey Robin, who notes that at Texas A&M a philosophy professor must dispense with Plato in his course because the content will be in violation of this edict: “No system academic course […]
Read more...How China’s Overinvestment Helped Produce Africa’s Deindustrialization
An in-depth article from a leftist vantage on China’s extensive involvement in Africa finds that it has been a net negative for development
Read more...Did Israel’s Rivalry With Turkiye Play A Major Role In Its Recognition Of Somaliland?
Will the US follow in recognizing Somaliland?
Read more...US Launches Christmas Strikes on Nigeria—the 9th Country Bombed by Trump
With Nigeria, Trump—who calls himself “the most anti-war president in history”—has now bombed more countries than any president in history.
Read more...Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.
Read more...Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Data agreements are replacing armies as tools of colonialism and the return of external governance
Read more...Sudan War: Gold, a Key Port, and Two Armies With No Legitimate Claim
Sudan is being ripped apart by a conflict fueled by gold, international interest in a port on the Red Sea and two factions with no legitimacy.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Advanced Nations Stymie Governance Reforms at World Bank Intended to Increase Influence of Global Majority
More than a decade of stalled Wrold Bank shareholding reforms illustrate how geopolitical rivalries undermine the push for multipolarity
Read more...Trump’s Dip Into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – In Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples
Examining one case of how US-sponsored peace deals spread more chaos. Is it simply Trump or a State Department feature, not a bug?
Read more...Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats
Over time, Democrats came to support the end to South Africa’s apartheid, whch makes the cowardice over Gaza genocide even more deplorable
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