Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

“Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”

As more data about the Covid vaccines comes out, it is becoming acceptable to step away from cheerleading and make factual judgments.

Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?

How the Taliban outfoxed the US.

The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?

Trying to make sense of Afghanistan.

Is Western U.S. Experiencing a ‘Megadrought’?

The U.S. West may be in a climate-fueled megadrought, but willingness to admit that, let alone address it, is awfully slow in coming.

Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests

Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures

Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy

Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China

Lawrence Wilkerson looks at the overly-casual talk in the US about nuclear war with China and does not like what he sees.

How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes

Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.

The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About

So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.

Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities

The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.

Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report

A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.

Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano

Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.

Florida Red Tide: Who Will Fix This Mess?

Environmentalists decry the role of corporate polluters and the state of Florida in the state’s red tide mess.

IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean

The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?

The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far

Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.