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.
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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.
Read more...What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...Pursuing Its National Interest in the New Multipolar World: India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output
Sakhalin-1 opportunity: Indian firms to step in and replace departing U.S. and Japanese companies.
Read more...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.
Read more...Privacy in the Wake of Dobbs: How Safe Are Your Medical Records and Digital Data If Prosecutors or Bounty Hunters from No-Choice States Come Knocking?
To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...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.
Read more...“G7 Aims to Hurt Russia with Price Cap on Oil Exports”
If this harebrained Russia oil price cap scheme gets off the ground, it’s likely to be yet another Western economic own goal.
Read more...“Why the Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy”
Why the depth of the U.S. securities market will extend dollar hegemony beyond what would seem to be its natural sell-by date.
Read more...Lithuania’s Step Too Far — Blockade of Kaliningrad Draws No Support from US, UK, EU, NATO, as Russia Prepares “Practical Steps”, “No Diplomacy”
If it doesn’t pull back on its interference with Russian shipments, Lithuania is set to get whacked for messing with Kaliningrad.
Read more...Estimating the Short-Term Impact of War on Economic Activity in Ukraine
A rosy-seeming view of how Ukraine’s economy is faring.
Read more...Turnaround for the Left, Big Gains for the Far Right in French Legislative Elections
Yves here. Please welcome Jonah Birch, who came to us through a good friend of the site, Tom Ferguson. Jonah is a sociologist who most recently was an assistant professor at Marquette University and has just returned to New York City. His areas of interest include political sociology, social movements, European politics, work and labor […]
Read more...Michael Hudson Talks About Almost Everything with Jonathan Brown
Another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: Ukraine Is a Diplomacy No-Go Zone
If this is what Western “realism” about Ukraine looks like, our goose is cooked.
Read more...Gazprom Reduces Gas Flows To Italy
More on the dastardly gast cuts to Europe by Gazprom.
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