Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Yet another NATO summit has escalation on the agenda, despite the weakening of the West’s position.
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Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma
Yet another example of inadequate green targets meeting the notion that even that much action is somehow too costly.
Read more...Michael Hudson: 18th Century Writers Understand Effects of War Debt Better Than IMF
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF’s view of war debt is dangerously misguided and older economic thinkers had much better take.
Read more...Biden Crashes, Trump Lies: A Campaign-Defining Presidential Debate
Yves here. The presidential debate last night is likely to go down as being of historical importance, in the same league as the Kennedy-Nixon debate. But here, instead of demonstrating how the then-young medium rewarded good looks and a confident affect, here it showed two men, which as often happens with the aged, having become […]
Read more...The U.S. Is Nowhere Near Ready for Climate Change
Climate change is cooking our collective gooses. What can be done to reduce the damage?
Read more...Despite Warnings, Israel Looks Set to Jump Off Lebanon Ledge
Israel looks like it is about to bite off way more than it can chew in instigating a hot war with Lebanon.
Read more...Between the Kremlin Cup and the General Staff Lip After Sunday’s Crimea and Dagestan Attacks
Another tug-of-war between the Russian General Staff plus its hawkish friends and Putin.
Read more...Russia and Ukraine Trade Drone Strikes on Energy Facilities
Ukraine has increased attacks on Russian energy assets as Russia continues its campaign against the Ukraine grid. Who is doing more damage?
Read more...Are Extreme Stunt Climate Activists Like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil Actually Fossil Fuel Industry Stooges? They Might as Well Be
Why deliberately offensive and therefore counterproductive climate change activism looks like a feature, not a bug.
Read more...The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
Read more...Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Read more...“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...Western Officials and Press Starting to Acknowledge Impact of Russian Electric War on Ukraine
The Anglospehere press is slowly waking up to the relentlessness and effectiveness of Russia’s electric war in Ukraine.
Read more...Intrigue About Exit of Mustafa Nayyem, Ukraine Restoration Funding Chief and Maidan Revolt Instigator, Diverts Attention from Boneheadness of the Scheme
An overdue discussion of the Ukraine restoration con, with tooth-gnashing over the exit of Mustafa Nayyem as a tell.
Read more...Heatwaves Ripple into the Financial System
Heat stress affects the financial system by increasing defaults and producing tighter lending terms to others in the same area.
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