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
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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.
Read more...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?
Read more...Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
Read more...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.”
Read more...The UK Aims to Entrench Its Influence in Estonia in Order to Lead the Arctic-Baltic Front
The UK’s clever scheme to enlist rabid chihuahua Estonia to harass Russia in the Baltic theater.
Read more...Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High Despite Green Efforts
So much for “green energy will save us” hype. Carbon emssions keep rising.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The U.S. Empire’s Plan for Global Domination
Michael Hudson: War on Iran is part of the US empire’s effort to re-impose its dominance on the global political and financial system
Read more...Financial Times on Coming Climate-Change-Driven Meltdown in Real Estate: Gradually, Then Suddenly?
A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...Carl von Clausewitz and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach
An overview of Clausewitz’s thinking winds up showing how the US has ignored it, with the bad results Clausewitz predicted.
Read more...Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation
An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
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