“If Europe Is Under Attack We Will Never Come to Help You” – EU Top Official Quotes Trump
Even though Trump would find it hard to limit US support to NATO, the US has deep-seated problems with its ability to project power
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The Collapse of the Public Health Establishment is the Collapse of the Professional-Managerial Class
A White House Press Secretary, the Director of a national public health agency, and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at a major public university.
Read more...Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It
More discussion of the broader implications of Israel’s and the US’s refusal to change course (much) regarding Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
Read more...The Debt Explosion: How Neoliberalism Fuels Debt Crises
Radhika Desai and Michael Husdon provide a data-driven discussion of the inflating and detonation of debt bombs during the neoliberal era.
Read more...Links 1/12/2024
More Signs of War in South America, As Ecuadorian Government Declares “Internal Armed Conflict” With Drug Cartels
The Noboa government’s labelling of the drug cartels as “terrorist organisations” and “belligerent non-state actors” opens the door even wider to the prospect of US military support.
Read more...Doctors Raise Alarm on Dropping Global Fertility Rate, Environmental Pollutants Cited
A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
Read more...U.S. and UK Forces Hit Military Targets in Yemen
The US and its hanger-on, the UK, bomb Yemen, risking escalation to a regional war….to protect their manhood and Israel’s genocide.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/11/2024
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Read more...Why the Middle Class Benefits from Inflation
Why you should be glad and learn to love inflation.
Read more...Republicans Are Pushing for Drastic Asylum Changes – an Immigration Law Scholar Breaks Down the Proposal
An update on the push and pull in DC over whether and how to change a key element of immigration law.
Read more...Where Do Living Creatures Get Their Sense of Rhythm?
Weighing the evidence for the idea that humans are not alone in having rhythm.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2024
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this Water Cooler is a little bit light, but I am commanded elsewhere. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Peaceful Dove, Sturt National Park–Mount Wood Homestead and Campground, Northwestern NSW, New South Wales, Australia * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as […]
Read more...Germany’s ‘Krisenmodus’ Has No End in Sight
German elites look to ban opposition party and switch out the chancellor without changing the policies that make him so unpopular – anything to keep up the fight against Russia.
Read more...Trump’s Arguments for Immunity Not as Hopeless as Some Claim
Even though Trump looks primed to lose his case on immunity from prosecution as president, his arguments aren’t baseless.
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