Yves here. Yet another example of European values in action! A corruption scandal in Aisle 5! While this procurement abuse is not all that big an impediment to European NATO members bulking up their armed forces, say compared to voters not being on board with baked-in social spending cuts, the lack of an industrial base, […]
Read more...ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.
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Read more...On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Read more...Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Read more...The Trump administration barrels toward U.S. intervention in Iran, with neither reality nor Congress serving as a check.
Read more...Investors seem unduly chill about the risk that a US attack on Iran will produce a formal or de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Read more...Universities are loath to take NIH funding due to “evil” grant terms that make ideological non-compliance subject to False Claims Act damages
Read more...In Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy presents historical foes of monopoly, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism
Read more...Texas is the 3rd largest US state. It’s been under GOP rule for 21 years and a civil war is brewing between MAGA and RINO factions.
Read more...An overview of the economic impact of Trump’s second term flurry from some Serious Economists. They don’t find much to like.
Read more...Discussing the risk of nuclear escalation in Iran.
Read more...The fog of war is thick over the current hostilities between Israel and Iran, but the intense interest in short-term outcomes of this regional war may be obscuring the ultimate prospects for Israel as negative trends undermine its militaristic foreign policy. I will describe these trends and the likely outcome. Loss of International Support The […]
Read more...Lebanon-based jouranlist Laith Marouf provides some granular detail on Iran’s and Israel’s operations and what might come next in the war
Read more...The company that ” knows everything about you” is going from strength to strength as war rises and and the so-called “liberal” West turns into a dystopian novel.
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