Category Archives: Media watch

Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship

How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.

“COL. Douglas Macgregor : Why Is Trump Arming Ukraine?”

Trump says US citizens working in Ukraine on his minerals deal will be a deterrent, as in serve as a tripwire. Bye bye Russia peace pact?

COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View

A look at the state of knowledge when Covid-19 started its spread, and some of the questionable choices made despite that.

After We Amplified Warnings of Wildly Overvalued Unicorns, They Crash and Burn

“We Must Fund Oppositions Properly to Save Democracy”

The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, like quite a few others, looks for ways to save democracy from itself, as in rule by voters.

Hoisted from Comments: A Discussion of China’s Faltering Growth

An example of the comments section at work, here on China, with both some very informative reader content and some sour notes.

Interview: How Elon Musk Blurs the Lines of Free Speech

Billionaire Elon Musk’s new job raises tricky First Amendment questions, with implications for public health.

US History of Duplicity Means Impossibility of Negotiated Settlements, Including Ukraine; Could a Government in Exile Be Coming?

Why there will be no deal between the US and Russia on Ukraine: the US really is incapable of entering into an agreement it will respect.

Even US Messaging Outlet RFE/RL Having Trouble Prettying Up Trump Planning to Buy Ukraine Rare Earths Empty Bag

There is both less and more in the Trump offer to arm Ukraine in return for rare earths than meets the eye.

ICE Faking News: Games Search Engines to Make Mass Deportations Appear Way More Massive Than They Are

Mass deportation raids have barely started, yet ICE is faking their prevalence! What gives?

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign

On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.

Book Bans

A look at a historical example of a concerted book ban to assess its effectiveness and long-term impact.

Richard Wolff: Settler Colonialism – ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel

Richard Wolff shares how his personal experience as well as early research influenced his view of settler colonialism and the Israel project.

Rob Urie: On Being Censored for the Last Four Years

Rob Urie provides damning details about the extent and nature of the censorship he has suffered. Please read and circulate widely.