Gaius Publius: Hillary Clinton Explains Our North Korea, South Korea, China Policy
Why America’s belligerent posture towards North Korea needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
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Michael Klare: Climate Change as Genocide: Inaction Equals Annihilation
Famine has hit several African countries. This may be a harbinger of climate change’s future severe impact, particularly on the world’s poor.
Read more...The Automation Grift: From Flying Cars to Ordering Cat Food on the Internet – Part 2
Why claims for automation getting rid of workers are greatly exaggerated.
Read more...How to Keep Losing Wars in the Middle East
The US game plan for the Middle East seems to be not just more wars, but losing more wars.
Read more...The Brexit Situation is Developing Not Necessarily to the UK’s Advantage
We’ve been neglecting Brexit due to Trump going uber hawkish and the resulting barrage of news stories to sort through. And another reason is that the noise to signal ratio got even higher in the British media around the time Brexit became official. Formal progress will be virtually nil till late May. The UK and […]
Read more...The Overlooked Past Behind U.S.-North Korea Tensions & How South Korea Could Forge Peace
Some history on the hostilities between the US and North Korea, and how that plays into the recent escalation of tensions.
Read more...Dirt as a Carbon Sink?
Could dirt be a magic bullet in the fight to reduce carbon levels?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Wild Housing Speculation Drives Entire Canadian Economy
Canadian housing continues on its relentless rise because too many people can’t afford to have it stop.
Read more...Business Press Waking Up to Bank Legacy IT Risk
Reuters discusses the challenge of moving off legacy systems. While the piece is a long overdue, it still seems more than a tad optimistic.
Read more...War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!): The U.S. Navy’s Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska
US Navy schedules latest war games exercise in Gulf of Alaska, without due regard for environmental or community concerns.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Great Debt Unwind: Consumer Bankruptcies Jump, First Since 2010; Commercial Bankruptcies Spike
Both consumer and commercial bankruptcies spiked in March– and the oil bust’s not to blame.
Read more...The Clean Carbon Bad Joke
How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
Read more...Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Dangers Ahead
A closer look at how the West avoided war over the last alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad, in 2013. Can saner heads prevail again?
Read more...Philippines President Duterte Orders Troops to Occupy South China Sea “Islands”
Philippines’ President Duterte decides to hot things up a bit in the simmering South China Sea hostilities.
Read more...US Launches Airstrikes Against Syria (Updated)
The US has just attacked Syria. Unless the Russians abandon Syria, this looks like the war the neocons wanted.
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