Good Riddance, Alan Greenspan
Cataloguing some of the less-well recognized ways that Alan Greenspan did tremendous harm to the financial system and citizens at large.
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What Happens When the World’s Breadbaskets Start Failing Simultaneously?
A look at the global food system focusing on the role of breadbaskets. Many disconcerting parallels to global financial crisis risks.
Read more...Covid and Public Health Establishment Work Together to Make Next Pandemic More Likely
Public health continues to rely on failed Covid response as it also ignores how Covid has weakened immune systems and made other outbreaks more likely.
Read more...The Russian Triad Is Now on the Same Page Regarding Southern-Emanating Threats from NATO
The most powerful Russian agencies consider how to respond to the risk of a NATO-instigated three-front proxy war.
Read more...Why ‘De-Risking’ May Not Deliver a Large Peace Dividend
Does an increase in bilateral trade reduce the probability of militarized conflict?
Read more...Artificial Stupidity in the Persian Gulf
The planned central hub for American digital—and dollar— supremacy goes up in flames, but Silicon Valley and Washington refuse to learn anything.
Read more...American “Micro-Militarism”
Or how defeat in the Iran War will accelerate American global decline.
Read more...A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Comes Into View
Two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk from sea level increases.
Read more...Wildfires Used to ‘Go to Sleep’ at Night. Climate Change Has Them Burning Overtime
Wildfires now have longer burn-times; California has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.
Read more...A Fifth of NYC Built on Bygone Water Now at Risk: Study Maps City’s ‘Blue Zones’
Researchers identified more than 500 places in NYC where water was, where it floods and that will get worse due to climate change.
Read more...Why Environmental Tipping Points Don’t Have to Spell Doom
“A tipping point commonly means a point of no return. But conservation can still help ecosystems restore their balance.”
Read more...Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem
AI digital assistants not only do complex tasks on their own, but also lie and scheme. Who takes responsibility when they cause harm?
Read more...Bitcoin/Crypto Crash Captures Headlines as Potentially More Serious Tech-Driven Debt Retreat Progresses
As much fun as it is to watch Bitcoin swoon, a more serious erosion is underway on the big tech borrowing front.
Read more...The US of AI: How Energy Laws and Oversight Are Being Trashed to Benefit the Broligarchy
Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks
Sadly, climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is coming. Is it possible to properly assess risks and choose least-hazardous approaches?
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