Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it

John Bellamy Foster explains the plans to create assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons.

Groundhog Day For America’s Energy Grid

More energy woes coming to some parts of the US due to the failure to address known infrastructure problems.

Happy Bastille Day: Some Musings on Recent Events in Sri Lanka

Reflections on Bastille Day 2022: Last Saturday, Sri Lankans stormed their presidential palace, causing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to the Maldives.

Climate Protestors Stop Stage 10 of the Tour de France

Climate protests stopped Stage 10 of the Tour de France briefly on Tuesday. The race continued, but a worldwide audience heard their message.

Climate Change Risks to Sovereign Debt: How Integrated Assessment Models Inform Our Understanding

Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop

Some Quick Thoughts About Russia’s Resilience and America’s Malaise

Seeking reader input on preliminary hypotheses on why Russia is faring better than expected under the sanctions while the US is suffering.

The G7 Is Still Pushing Its Nutty Russia Oil Price Cap Idea

A new effort to punch Russia in the nose look as likely to backfire as earlier attempts, charitably assuming the scheme gets off the ground.

FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft

The US is really really out to heat things up with China…

The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?

It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.

Boris Johnson Death Watch

Boris Johnson agonistes.

Supremes Kayo Climate Change Regulation: West Virginia v. EPA

The Supreme Court last week scuppered the ability of the EPA to implement climate change regulation under the Clean Air Act- absent further action by Congress.

Michael Hudson: A Depression Is Coming

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.

Fighting Words – What the Poles Say When They Dare Do Nothing About NATO and the US

How Poland is getting the short end of the stick from the US and NATO. Not that that should be a surprise.

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Two Separate Bayer Glyphosate Appeals in One Week

Three significant glyphosate decisions have been handed down in the last week, two by the U.S. Supreme Court and one by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.