Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
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Andrew Bacevich: America’s Very Long War
Ruminations on our seemingly neverending war, starting with Vietnam….but is that the right frame?
Read more...Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017
A coalition of climate groups calls on the Biden administration to use existing statutory authority as a basis for executive action to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
Read more...Macron Suggests EU-Russia Talks. Meltdown Among EU, US Apparatchiks Follows.
Macron stands up for the idea that the EU should have a say about being dragged into a conflict with Russia. Can’t have that!
Read more...UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’
UN: Climate-stressed, pollution-degraded farms system must adopt sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion by 2050.
Read more...Remember That the Tories Are Only Getting Rid of Johnson To Make Things Worse
What happens to and after Johnson which is very much in play.
Read more...Rorschach Test: Revealing Western Press Reactions to Xi Jinping Speech at Davos
Xi Jinping gave an important speech at Davos, even if it was mainly updates on favorite themes. But the press reactions…..
Read more...5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests
The Covid free test program isn’t really.
Read more...The Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate: In Defense of National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor
A refreshingly balanced take on why the Supreme Court was correct in shooting down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.
Read more...Airlines Threaten to Ground Many Passenger and Cargo Flights Over Cell Operators’ Refusal to Change 5G Plans
Airlines and cargo carriers threaten to throw down the guantlet if Verizon and AT&T don’t back off from their Wednesday 5G rollout.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...Latest Biden Covid Speech Sinks Without a Trace
I don’t think this speech will turn it around for Biden.
Read more...Biden Urged to Fire Covid Response Chief Jeff Zients Over ‘Damning’ Failures
Calls for Zients’ ouster come amid intensifying outrage at the Biden administration’s overall pandemic response—anger that has hardly been limited to Zients.
Read more...Eurasia’s Ring of Fire
A theory of empire, based on aspirations for control of Eurasia.
Read more...An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
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