Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About the De Facto Asian NATO

Japan and Australia are finally questioning US exploitation. But what can they do about it?

Africa’s Minerals Are Being Bartered for Security: Why It’s a Bad Idea

A minerals-for-security deal among the DRC, Rwanda and the US is as bad as the Ukraine “raw earths” security commitments.

U.S. Inches Closer to Causing Major Caucasus Crisis With Offer to Administer Transport Corridor Between Turkey and Azerbaijan

Moscow takes measures against Baku and Yerevan to warn against corridor move that would upset regional balance and be blow to Iran and Russia.

Uneven Vulnerabilities: A Global Index of Climate Risk for Countries

A new paper rates 170 countries for climate risk exposure. This ambitious and imporant exercise neverthless seems to have key gaps.

Wars, Taxation, and Increases in Representation

A historical analysis shows that greater representation was a bargain autocratic, here feudal, rulers had to strike to get support for war

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

The meme-contour of recent articles seems designed to promote resignation towards nuclear war and other horrors of combat.

Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure

High energy costs in Europe, largely due to sanctions against Russia, has spread the gangrene of de-industrialization to the Netherlands

Insurers Dump Catastrophe Risk of Climate Change and Earthquake to Chump Bond Investors. What Could Go Wrong?

Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.

What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?

As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?

Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices

More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.

The Inevitable Militarization of Space?

A high level review of the US efforts to project power in space and the actions/reactions of Russia and China.

Chaos in the Caucasus: The Great Armenian Sell Out and Turkish/NATO Dreams of a Turan Corridor Stretching to China

The great question is how Russia and Iran will respond if Turkiye and friends attempt to muscle their way across the Southern Caucasus.

Will Russia Greatly Accelerate Its Ukraine Tempo to Facilitate Responding to Turkiye-Azerbaijan Threat to Iran?

Will Azerbaijan turning against Russia, perhaps supporting an attack on Iran, force Russia to move faster than it might otherwise in Ukraine?

Chaos in the Caucasus: Türkiye and Azerbaijan Make Their US-Israel-Backed Move Against Russia and Iran

U.S. officials say involvement of Russia and Iran in their own backyard of the South Caucasus is “unstable and undesirable.”