New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts
IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.
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CODEPINK Says Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No NATO Expansion
A call for an end to the war in Ukraine….on sensible terms, which means it won’t get done.
Read more...America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century: The MIC, BARE and OGAM Conquer NATO
Why America is operating abroad to advance the interests of arms dealers, oil & gas, and Big Finance, and not its citizens.
Read more...A Very Preliminary Look at the Partial Suspension of Russia’s Access to SWIFT
News on the partial SWIFT cutoff for Russia was fuzzy. Despite being included, its central bank intervened in FX markets this AM. What gives?
Read more...“Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer”
Pfizer and Moderna stocks have tanked over liabilty worries. The case made by vocal critic Edward Dowd.
Read more...Russia Moves Troops into Donbass [Updated]
Even though it was clear that Russia would stage a military operation in Donbass, the speed of its action still caught many by surprise.
Read more...What the Latest Science Says About Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise
Why Antarctica is a huge wild card in the progress of sea level rises.
Read more...Some Additional Comments on Russia’s Ukraine Surprise
Attempting to clear up some fuzzy press reporting on the overly dynamic Russia/Urkaine situation.
Read more...5 Commodities That Could Explode As The Ukraine Crisis Escalates
A look at the commodities that are most vulnerable to reduced supply from Russia.
Read more...“What Would Russian Recognition of Separatist Territories in Ukraine Mean?”
Interestingly, a writer at openDemocracy noticed that last week, the Russian parliament gave Putin the green light to recognize Ukraine’s breakaway areas of Donbass and Luhansk. Despite that development, and the West supposedly having clever Russia experts, I don’t see any evidence that our military-intel apparatus or our Russia watchers gamed out this possibility. Mark […]
Read more...“Just Scandalous”: CDC Withholding Most of the Covid Data It Gathers. What Is It Trying to Hide?
We predicted the new CDC head, Rochelle Walensky, would do badly. A New York Times story shows how she’s underperforming our low expectations
Read more...EU Chief Defends Vaccine Patents as ‘Precious’ as South Africa Demands Waiver
Failure to grant patent waivers under the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement has stalled ramping up of production in Africa and other developing countries of coronavirus vaccines.
Read more...Russian Black Box Defence Against American Booby Trap Offence
Debunking the bizarre claims that the Russian side is unwilling to negotiate.
Read more...New Data: Omicron BA.2 More Contagious and Severe than BA.1, Yet Officials Committed to Relaxing Protections
[Jaws theme song] BA.2 is coming….Maybe it won’t be that terrible, but you might get out of the water.
Read more...What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
Ukraine tensions are at the boiling point. Where might this go?
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