Sunday, June 22, 2025

Links 5/26/2025

Joker Geoeconomics and the Fight Over Global Ports

What are China’s options to prevent BlackRock-MSC/US takeover of 43 global ports? And how far will the US go to muscle its way out of its profitability crisis? 

Wastewater Plants Could Protect Against PFAS Pollution

Sewage treatment plants have the power to help reduce people’s exposure to PFAS. It’s time they start using it.

Links 5/25/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Incident (1990) Run Time 1H 37M

The Incident is a made for television movie that portrays a small town lawyer’s struggles with his task of defending a German POW.

The Left Needs a New Globalization Vision to Counter the Far-Right Surge

An argument that the way out of neoliberal globalization is by developing a new globalization that is democratic and free from the destructive tendencies of capitalist accumulation.

Links 5/24/2025

Michael Hudson: The Secret Deal That Started a Global Economic War

Micheal Hudson explains how Trump’s tariffs are yet another device to force countries to accept poilcies that benefit the US.

Decades On, SSRIs Remain Mired in Mystery and Debate

Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy.

Coffee Break: A Triumph of Gene Editing

Part the First: Gene Editing as a Cure for Genetic Disease.  The recent politics of American science has been depressing in the extreme, and last week I promised to cover recent good things in basic and clinical science.   I can’t think of anything better than a baby has been treated successfully for a rare, lethal […]

Links 5/23/2025

Milei’s Controversial Plan to Turn Argentina into a Money Launderer’s Paradise

“The key is that nobody asks where you got your dollars.”

Anchored in Troubled Waters: Why European Union and Eurozone Membership Is Less Bad Than You Might Think

An analysis shows how the EU and Eurozone buffer some economic shocks.

China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’

The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.

New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert

The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.