As Helmer said by e-mail, “The Trump formula is retreat=negotiations plus covert operations.”
Read more...Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Read more...A sadly necessary reminder of what US regime change operations are about. Hint: nothing good.
Read more...Even with Russia’s domination undeniable as its electricity attacks turn off power all over Ukraine, Russia still has complex choices to make.
Read more...The casual US celebration of violence runs into the reality that those required to inflict it regularly suffer deep inner damage.
Read more...AI is not just coming for your job. Industry leaders plan to pick your pocket on a massive scale via a bailout.
Read more...A summary of the tumultuous events of Russia’s 1917 revolutions.
Read more...War is even more destructive in economic terms than is widely acknowledged.
Read more...Economists are starting to come to grips with the costs of weather/climate change induced disasters. But are their approaches adequate?
Read more...New musings on what sort of conclusion to the war Russia might impose, and specifically, how Russia reduces its security risks.
Read more...All the US energy poured into imperial submission accelerates the gains of humanity’s greatest threat.
Read more...Upon reading this collection of essays (the title of this post) from Wolfgang Streeck and then contemplating our current world, The Second Coming of William Butler Yeats comes to mind: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon […]
Read more...Is the $130 million “gift” to the Pentagon a trial balloon for further military privatization?
Read more...Medical systems using Epic are planning to turn most patient care decisions over to AI.
Read more...Part the First: Politics and Science. It will be s surprise to no one that autism is somewhere nearby: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work. The inquiry came in August and struck scientists at the Food and Drug Administration as highly unusual. The leader of the center that regulates […]
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