Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.
Read more...As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?
Read more...Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Read more...More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.
Read more...A high level review of the US efforts to project power in space and the actions/reactions of Russia and China.
Read more...The great question is how Russia and Iran will respond if Turkiye and friends attempt to muscle their way across the Southern Caucasus.
Read more...Will Azerbaijan turning against Russia, perhaps supporting an attack on Iran, force Russia to move faster than it might otherwise in Ukraine?
Read more...U.S. officials say involvement of Russia and Iran in their own backyard of the South Caucasus is “unstable and undesirable.”
Read more...The UK’s clever scheme to enlist rabid chihuahua Estonia to harass Russia in the Baltic theater.
Read more...So much for “green energy will save us” hype. Carbon emssions keep rising.
Read more...Michael Hudson: War on Iran is part of the US empire’s effort to re-impose its dominance on the global political and financial system
Read more...A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...An overview of Clausewitz’s thinking winds up showing how the US has ignored it, with the bad results Clausewitz predicted.
Read more...An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
Read more...A refined (pun intended) discussion of the state of the energy market and the high risk of continued kinetic action between Israel and Iran.
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