“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
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Collapse on the EU Home Front
Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
Read more...Why Are Their Lordships So Frightened of Modern Monetary Theory?
Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.
Read more...What Is China’s Future? Economic Decline, or the Next Industrial Revolution?
China has become economically wobbly of late. What does that portend?
Read more...New Evidence the German Taurus Attack Plan Was Leaked by the US Air Force
Yves here. It’s quite a big claim that members of the US military would leak a recording of German generals scheming to strike Russia with Taurus missiles to Russia. But then again, given that the US blew up the NordStream pipeline, it’s not as if the US regards Germany as anything other that a state […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/15/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing, Berlin techno, media assault on Long Covid ~
Read more...How Effective Is International Aid and Assistance? The Rise of Debt Traps
Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
Read more...Links 3/15/2024
Just Three Months into Office, Argentina’s Milei Government Invites US Troops to Help “Manage” Major Waterway
“This is an agreement involving a foreign army belonging to a country that clearly seeks to increase its hemispheric influence over Latin America.”
Read more...Major US Companies Pay Executives More Than Uncle Sam
More evidence, as if you needed it, that corporate executives are very skilled at feathering their nests.
Read more...Closing Hours of the 2024 Water Cooler Fundraiser. Please Help Hit Our Target!
Lambert goes a bit meta.
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...Links 3/14/2024
Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?
The West misjudged Russia’s capacity to fight in Ukraine, yet is now cavalierly pursuing escalation. On that path lies nukes.
Read more...Global Warming Is Still Accelerating, in Three Graphs
While you were busy watching the wars, national elections or other distractions du jour, global warming keeps marching on.
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