MAHA’s Meat-Loving Industrial Farming Hypocrisy
MAHA touts are in denial that their support for meat-eating is tantamount to support for factory farming.
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A Peptide, a Secretive Scientist, and a Debate Over Evidence
RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?
Read more...Manufacturing Consent for Trump’s Invasion of Cuba
Team Trump’s rhetoric against Cuba gets louder despite the lack of legal justification.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ageing Patriots
For decades, the Patriot missile system has symbolized American technological superiority and alliance reassurance. But modern missile warfare is evolving toward saturation attacks, rapid adaptation, and low-cost offensive abundance. The deeper problem confronting Patriot may not be interceptor performance alone, but whether the institutional and industrial logic behind American missile defense can evolve fast enough to match the accelerating tempo of modern warfare.
Read more...US Judge Calls Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement a “Filthy” Deal
Bayer got a blistering dressing-down from a Federal judge over a proposed sneaky settlement but it is not clear what happens next.
Read more...Bombing Schools Abroad, Destroying Education at Home
As the US and Israel work to destroy Iranian education centers and cultural heritage sites, US oligarchs want to put a meter on knowledge.
Read more...God Isn’t Good Enough – The Pope and the US Bishops Are Threatening the Catholic Vote for Trump and His Successors
Trump tries to muscle the Holy See as Catholic voters turn against him and the Iran war.
Read more...Iran War: Trump Makes Even More Unhinged Threat as Details of F-15 Pilot Rescue Point to Much Bigger Plan, Say to Seize Enriched Uranium; Trump Legitimacy Crisis Grows as Battered Gulf States Pull Back on US Investment, Particularly AI
Today’s Iran war news: Trump goes even more crazy as the F-15 rescue looks more like the tip of the iceberg of a big botched mission.
Read more...Iran War: Disaster in Iran as Multiple Aircraft Downed, Pilot Missing; Iran Pounds Israel Hard After Trump Asks for 48 Hour Ceasefire; Concerns in Military and Congress Over Purge of Reality-Grounded Officers
Today’s Iran war update: aircraft downed and at least one pilot missing in Iran follows a Saturday Night Massacre-style military purge
Read more...Will Trump’s Idiotic Iran War Spell the End of NATO?
Trump attacked on Iran with no consultation with NATO allies, doing them great harm, yet angrily demands help. Who wants an ally like that?
Read more...How Polling Failures, Gambling Legalization and Political Gridlock Paved the Way for the Explosive Rise of Prediction Markets
In the opinion of this humble blogger, prediction markets epitomize what is wrong with modern society. l
Read more...Five Reasons Why the US Declined To Enforce Its De Facto Blockade on Cuba for Russia
Cuba gets a bit of an energy break thanks to a Russian tanker, but this delivery won’t change outcomes.
Read more...“Regime Tweaking” In Cuba Is The Most Realistic Outcome Of Its US-Instigated Crisis
Cuba has no option other than to knuckle under in the face of US economic strangulation. What comes next?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Today’s Global Choice – A U.S. Ruler-Based Order or International Law
How Trump is replacing the pos-World War II only-somewhat coercive rules-based order with openly thuggish, predatory US domination
Read more...Shadows Over Brussels and Kiev: Corruption Scandals Challenge Von der Leyen’s Ukraine Agenda
Ursula von der Leyen runs roughshod over accountability and transparency even as Ukraine and her own corruptions scandals loom.
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