Category Archives: Guest Post
Why America Is Buying up the Premier League – And What It Means for the Future of ‘Soccer’
If Texas-based Friedkin Group’s recent deal to buy Everton goes through, 11 of the 20 Premier League clubs will be controlled or part-owned by American investors.
Read more...America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future
Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.
Read more...My Life So Far in Writing Tools (Partly, at Least)
Reference works I have known
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday Charts: RCP chart; shows Big Mo shifting toward Trump; Covid charts show nothing but good news; Walz fabricator vanishes; Trump cancellations; Boeing waits on SEC approval for stock and bond offering; FAA opens new safety review ~
Read more...Links 10/18/2024
As UK’s NHS Drowns in PFI Debt, Private Healthcare Providers Offer to Lend a Helping Hand (sarc)
“The scale of the expansion being considered would surpass moves made by the Blair government, which first introduced use of the private sector by the NHS.”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/17/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Democrat angst; Musk PA events for Trump could break the law; Boeing strike: Wall Street, WSJ, maybe DOD, rush to Boeing management’s assistance; Reader query: AI poisoner sought for photographs ~
Read more...Will the Conflicts in the Middle East Spill Over Into the Caucasus (Part 2): What Are the US and Türkiye Up To?
The US tutors Armenia on the ins and outs of being non-agreement-capable. Türkiye up to no good? Russia remains patient.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Interrogating Russian History
Satyajit Das discusses three new books on Russian history that profess to offer new insights, with predictably mixed results.
Read more...Thomas Neuburger: Carbon Sinks Are Failing
On carbon sinks becoming inoperative: ‘Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end’
Read more...The Macaulay Library, Bird Songs, and Citizen Science
Our tiny singing dinosaur friends, and the assets they create….
Read more...Links 10/16/2024
Will the Conflicts in the Middle East Spill Over Into the Caucasus?
The standoff between Armenia and Azerbaijan is being used to apply more pressure on Iran and has all the signs of a neocon divide and conquer scheme.
Read more...“Powder Keg in the Pacific, How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific”
A reader critical thinking exercise in the form of a neocon justification of US efforts to contain China.
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