Category Archives: Guest Post

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020

A detailed looks at trade patterns and supply chains over the last 50+ years.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Flexians at “the Committee to Unelect the President”; festival of Biden ~

The Future May Not Be As Electric as We Think

Is there a ceiling to electric vehicle uptake? And even worse, is that lower than many assume?

Links 7/12/2024

A License to W*nk: Spain to Launch Digital Identity Wallet to Limit and Ration Access to Internet Porn Sites

The proposal comes just months after the European Parliament and the European Council of Ministers unanimously approved the European Commission’s sweeping digital identity regulations.

Climate Change Is Coming for Hospitals

Many hospitals will have their operations interrupted and/or degraded by climate change. What to do?

New Agenda of Russia-India Relations

Modi and Putin had a bear hug earlier this week. Some context on India-Russia dealings and US upset about them.

Links 7/11/2024

“Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.”

More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.

Something Rotten in the State of Albion

A look at Britain’s image versus its conduct.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump VP picks; Biden’s wall of Black support; Pelosi: “Not so fast!” ~

Michael Hudson: Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart

NATO is looking wobbly and many of its woes are self inflicted.

Radioactive Real Estate: Finding a Forever Home for Nuclear Waste

Castoffs from U.S. nuclear weapons get buried at one site in New Mexico. But what happens when that facility fills up?

Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims

EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.