Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Brexit: Will Boris or Won’t He?

Does Johnson have any Brexit wriggle room?

PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose

A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.

Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia

Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.

‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event

Carbon levels could be approaching a threshold that could trigger ocean acidification similar to that which contributed to previous mass extinction events.

Trump’s Version of the Iran Accord: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

A clinical look at the Administration’s disingenuous Iran spin.

Mr. Market and the Press Diss Deutsche Bank’s Turnaround Plan

A hard look at Deutsche’s restructuring plan reveals a lot not to like

Deutsche Bank Throws in the Towel, Announces Restructuring into Bad Bank/Good Bank, Firing of 18,000

The beginning of an end for Deutsche Bank.

Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds Are Shifting

Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.

U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis

Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.

”Maximum Pressure” Campaign Fails To Kill Off Iran’s Oil Exports

Iran and the US look deadlocked.

One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?

The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.

Brexit Radicals

Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.

Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration

G20 issues Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, a voluntary plastic management plan so inadequate the plastic industry endorsed it immediately.

Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages

Climate disasters in India are fueled by its resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption policies, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty.