An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
Read more...As we had predicted from early on, the Ukraine peact talks are failing. Trump is threatening to pull the plug.
Read more...After only one US exchange with Iran, new noises from Witkoff and others show the US upping its demands to a level not acceptable to Iran
Read more...The U.S. goes all in on the burn-it-all-down strategy.
Read more...A purported list of proposed US terms for its negotiations with Iran looks to go well beyond what Iran could accept.
Read more...European NATO members hope Keynes’ magic will make their newly adopted militarism feasible. A sanity check.
Read more...China went all in on clean energy technology in recent years, but the economic war by the West and other developments now pose challenges to that gamble.
Read more...Happy endings look remote with the US attempt to escalate against Iran and bully them into a “deal”.
Read more...Some further observations about the Trump tariff train wreck.
Read more...Some further thoughts on the radical US-destructiveness of the Trump tariff regime.
Read more...The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
Read more...If we look at the “Great Game” through the lens of internecine strife of the global neoliberal elite, does it matter who wins?
Read more...The latest Trump tariffs kick up the destructiveness of his administration up to a whole new level.
Read more...The US seems intent on bludgeoning Iran into a very unfavorable agreement.
Read more...The plan has long been for Europe to dramatically increase military expenditures. Embracing international Trump Derangement Syndrome along with relentless Russophobia helps “give history a shove.”
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