Category Archives: Guest Post

A Ceasefire Is Far from Lasting Peace – A National Security Expert on the Israel-Hamas Deal

Tamping down ceasefire hopium.

Links 11/25/2023

How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World – Dr. Michael Hudson & Dr. Steve Keen

Micheal Hudson and Steve Keen review how finance capitalism prevailed over industrial capitalism, and why that produced bad outcomes.

The Environmental Impact of Housing and Heating

Good news on the climate change front: some easy fixes to housing would have an impact.

Quelle Surprise! UK Government Hands Management of NHS Patient Data to CIA-Linked US Spyware Firm, Palantir

The company that aspires to be inside “every missile,… every drone,” including, it seems, those belonging to the Israeli Defence Forces, is now running the patient data platform of the world’s second largest public health care system.

NATO’s Proposed “Military Schengen” Is a Thinly Disguised German Power Play Over Poland

Is Germany going to succeed in advancing a key EU aim, putting a trouble-making Poland in a box?

Links 11/23/2023

Restructuring of the Global Economy – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

A wide-ranging talk, both geographically and historically, on the accelerating changes in the global economy

Russian And Chinese Focus Alights On Iraq’s Strategically Vital Akkas Project

To what ought to be the considerable embarrassment of the US, China and Russia looks set to cinch a major gas licensing deal in Iraq.

Links 11/22/2023

Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?

Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/21/2023

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Geopolitical Rivals Are Key Suppliers of West’s Green Energy Materials

Opposie! The West increasingly needs critical materials from countries against which we have escalated, particularly for green energy.

The Far-Reaching Implications of Javier “the Wig” Milei’s Election Victory in Argentina

Clearly, a majority of voters have had enough of the status quo. What they want is a seismic shift in the underlying political and economic dynamics. And that is what they will get, for better or worse (my money is on the latter).