Germany’s Grid Is Getting Greener as Its Industry Is Weakening
Why Germany’s claimed green transition progress is less impressive than it appears when you decompose the data.
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Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led ‘Revolution’
The “second American Revolution” underway will “remain bloodless,” said the head of Project 2025 “if the left allows it to be.”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/3/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemis; Jill Biden, Vogue cover girl; Stevie Nicks and Taylor Swift; Great Barrington grifters.~
Read more...The Anxious Generation: A View of Where We Are and What Should Come Next
Jonathan Haidt contends that changes in childrearing practices have produced adults who on average are more anxious and fragile
Read more...The Houthis Turn the Red Sea Redder, Stymieing Israel and the US
A look at the history of Yemen, its place in the region, and the remarkable Houthi campaign against Israel and Red Sea shipping.
Read more...Biden Slips a Cog: Second Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Farce, or Both?
The aftermath of Biden’s debate with Trump critiqued as drama.
Read more...Mexico Scores Major Victory Against Bayer-Owned Monsanto As Corn War With US Reaches Pivotal Moment
“Reason has ultimately prevailed in favour of life, health, nature, biodiversity and food sovereignty.” After a four-year legal battle on multiple fronts with Mexico’s AMLO government, Monsanto has finally thrown in the towel. Last Tuesday, Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) announced that two Mexican divisions of Monsanto — now subsidiaries of […]
Read more...Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Yet another NATO summit has escalation on the agenda, despite the weakening of the West’s position.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/1/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Supreme Court decision on Presidential immunity and Open Thread ~
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The EU ‘Doom Loop’: Bloc Set to Embrace More Austerity Despite Evidence It Will Cause Further Rightward Shift
The National Rally wins first round in France. Why do the self-described centrists keep making it so easy for the far right?
Read more...How Camping Bans − Like the One the Supreme Court Just Upheld − Can Fit into ‘Hostile Design’: Strategies to Push Out Homeless People
The US Supreme Court decides it is not cruel to make it illegal for homeless people to sleep.
Read more...Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma
Yet another example of inadequate green targets meeting the notion that even that much action is somehow too costly.
Read more...Survey Trolls, Opt-In Polls, and the New Era of Survey Science
As polling methods evolve, it can be hard to distinguish solid survey findings from those that dissolve under scrutiny.
Read more...Michael Hudson: 18th Century Writers Understand Effects of War Debt Better Than IMF
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF’s view of war debt is dangerously misguided and older economic thinkers had much better take.
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