The West Foments Chaos in the Caucasus
Armenia’s pivot to the West unravels. Regime change efforts in Georgia. Türkiye looks to criminalize working for “foreign interests.”
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The Popski Syndrome – Allied Defeat Turns into Ukraine Battlefield Fantasies
Ukraine, with certain Western help, has engaged in even more provocative stunts as some NATO leaders threaten escalation.
Read more...Repress U., Class of 2024: How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven More Steps
The apparatus behind the explosion of police crackdowns against campus anti-Gaza-genocide protests has been very long in the making.
Read more...“It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes”
An, erm, novel exercise to present Americans as always on board with good-thinking values like opposing autocratic players.
Read more...Are European Politicians Beginning to Worry About Their Own Possible Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?
“If you are encouraging a party to undertake a war crime you become complicit in that crime itself.”
Read more...IM Doc on the Accelerating Decline in American Medicine
On the rot in US medicine….and as you might expect, it started from the head.
Read more...Lost in the Green Transition: Which Workers Win and Lose
Most green energy boosters skip over which workers will win and lose. This post addresses that oversight.
Read more...How One Advice Columnist Handled Our Covid Pandemic, Over Four Years
Carolyn Hax tries to sweep back the tide with a broom.
Read more...Book Review: How Plants Experience the World
In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.
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Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
Read more...Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound
A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves
Read more...U.S. Remains Painfully Dependent on China for Silicon and Solar Panels
Yet another own goal in the US economic war against China. We chose to make ourselves dependent and don’t like where we are.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics, the Bragg trial winds down. imperceptible skin sensors, Hokusai’s Great Wave ~
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