Modi and Putin had a bear hug earlier this week. Some context on India-Russia dealings and US upset about them.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Biden Twists in the Wind as Big Donors Close Wallets, Party Criticism Persists Despite Clampdown, and Pelosi Questions His Decision to Continue
Despite reports of ruthless Biden efforts at containment, calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race grow.
“Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.”
More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.
Something Rotten in the State of Albion
A look at Britain’s image versus its conduct.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump VP picks; Biden’s wall of Black support; Pelosi: “Not so fast!” ~
Michael Hudson: Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart
NATO is looking wobbly and many of its woes are self inflicted.
Radioactive Real Estate: Finding a Forever Home for Nuclear Waste
Castoffs from U.S. nuclear weapons get buried at one site in New Mexico. But what happens when that facility fills up?
Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims
EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts (no good news at all); Biden on Morning Joe; open processes to replacing Biden; the Enneagram ~
The Biden Donor Convention
Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
It Is Now Labour’s Turn to Expand the Piecemeal Privatisation of the UK’s National Health Service
To treat the NHS’s ills, Keir Starmer’s government is talking about bringing back Tony Blair’s health secretary, Alan Milburn, who is now in the pay of corporations with interests in the UK’s healthcare sector.
