Onward March, Germany
Anti-Russia mania deepens as CDU-led coalition ties future economic health of country to war industry.
Read more...Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios
Nuclear Winter from a Pakistan-India War Could Kill 2 Billion
Even a limited nuclear conflict could cause years of potentially devastating impacts to climate and societies.
Read more...Abundance vs. Degrowth in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
While Trump’s Liberation Day policies might bring about accidental degrowth, Democrats embrace DOGE-style Abundance. Is there another way?
Read more...What The Endgame in Gaza Means For Middle East Security And Oil Prices
Netanyahu plans another aggressive incursion into Gaza, intended as a Final Solution of sorts. Is a retaliatory oil embargo a real risk?
Read more...How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?
Trump adviser Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeas corpus due to “invasion.” Whether that happens or not, we’re still seeing constitutional rights continue to erode as the “War on Terror” comes home.
Read more...Karma Arriving? Times of Israel Frets Over Trump Abandonment With Houthis and Perhaps Even Iran
Is Trump leaving an overextended Israel to its own devices with his Yemen deal and Iran talks?
Read more...A US or UK Hidden Hand? “How an India-Pakistan War Could Derail Central Asia’s Future”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Asif contends that acting as a US operative helped prime the current India-Pakistan conflict. Does he have a point?
Read more...On the Practical Importance of Basic Research for Human Health
I was listening to the journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News last week as he talked briefly about his wife’s ongoing cancer treatment. His short gloss was directly on point, and it motivated me to dig deep in my archives on the history of research on breast cancer and how one never knows what […]
Read more...Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
Read more...Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
Read more...The EU Zombie Uses Trump as Cover to Further Feed on Citizens
Ursula and company are inching towards using emergency powers for first installment of 900 billion ‘rearmament’ because Trump.
Read more...Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
Read more...Underage Workers, Millions of Dollars and Trucks Full of Dead Chickens — Inside the Business of Killing in Response to Bird Flu
The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
Read more...Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse
Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: Has Trump Agreed to Continue Military Support? Even if Not, Will He Fall for an Endowment Effect Trap?
Will the Ukraine minerals deal become a tar baby for Trump?
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