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2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2023
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Is Peru About to Descend Into Another Wave of Political Violence, This Time With US Troops on the Ground?
Peru’s Boluarte government has zero democratic legitimacy, is broadly rejected by the public and under investigation for numerous human rights violations. Now, with roughly 1,000 US troops stationed in the country, it faces a third massive march on Lima.
Read more...CDC’s HICPAC Prepares to Whack More Patients as Infection Control Experts Gather for August 22 Teleconference on Masks
“We said we’d *control* infection, right?”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2023
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Read more...Links 7/9/2023
Kakhovka Dam Breach in Ukraine Caused Economic, Agricultural and Ecological Devastation That Will Last for Years
Ukrainian yields had already fallen by as much as 60 percent. With the loss of the dam and reservoir, agricultural production will shrink further, affecting food security around the world.
Read more...Links 7/8/2023
The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash
Michael Hudson takes a long, hard look at the origins and costs of the Fed’s ZIRP policy.
Read more...It’s Not That Hard to Solve Homelessness
America has the means to substantially alleviate homelessness but not the desire.
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Read more...Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind discuss how belief in infinite growth came to seem reasonable in philosophy and economics.
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The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?
Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.
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