“Regime Tweaking” In Cuba Is The Most Realistic Outcome Of Its US-Instigated Crisis
Cuba has no option other than to knuckle under in the face of US economic strangulation. What comes next?
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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Distributed Deterrence
Military superiority has long been assumed to confer decisive strategic advantage. Yet the spread of precision missiles, mobile launch systems, and low-cost drones is eroding that assumption. A new condition of “distributed deterrence” is emerging—one that may constrain great power coercion while introducing new risks of escalation.
Read more...Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt
To the frustration of Davos Man, insect agriculture has found it difficult to compete with the traditional meat industry.
Read more...Palantir Faces Growing Backlash in UK Following Mandelson-gate Scandal
But is it already too late to reverse course?
Read more...Causal Evidence on Cost-of-Living Shocks: How the Energy Crisis Affected Energy Demand, Labour Supply, and Financial Strain
Quelle surprise! Poorer households have to make across-the-board spending cuts when hit with a price shock.
Read more...Economic Questions: The Thorstein Veblen Question
A timely recap of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption and its implication.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Salt For Svanetia (1930) Run Time: 49M
Salt for Sventia is a film about toil and hardship in a remote village in Soviet Russia.
Read more...Widening the ‘We’: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense
Oligarch overreach on every front presents challenges—and opportunities.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Persia’s Monopoly Concessions to Britain, 1872-1901
Persia’s 19th century fight to drive out the British investors who had obtained monopoly concessions is background to the current crisis.
Read more...How Accent Discrimination Reinforces America’s Deepest Divides
The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.
Read more...Why Environmental Tipping Points Don’t Have to Spell Doom
“A tipping point commonly means a point of no return. But conservation can still help ecosystems restore their balance.”
Read more...Iran War: Oil Flirts With $100 as More Commercial Ships Hit, US Refueling Plane Downed, with Iraqi Militia Taking Credit; Demands for Hormuz Opening Intensify; Private Debt Wobbles Add to Market Pressure
Today’s Iran war update: markets stay edgy as Administration messaging becomes more hollow and more ships burn.
Read more...One of the US’ Biggest Vassal Governments in Latin America Just Banned the Country’s Main Opposition Party
A taste of things to come under Trump’s “Shield of the Americas”?
Read more...Satyajit Das: Iran – Even War Has Been Financialized
Satyajit Das provides a broad look at the scope and depth of the potential economic downside of the Iran war.
Read more...Universities Survived Trump’s 2025 Funding Freeze, but the Money Still Isn’t Flowing to Researchers
Trump’s war on universities, like Iran, is doing great damage to the US, here via success in reducing research funding and causing chaos.
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