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Thursday, August 21, 2025
Buzzer Beater – Russian General Staff Aims at Ending the Ukraine by Electric War
The Western press is largely ignoring Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s electric system, which will bring Ukraine to its knees
The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right”
A look at Europe’s elections and a comparison of the neoliberal, pro-war center with a right that abandons its EU and NATO skepticism begs the question, what’s the difference between the two?
Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds
A Canadian oil field that should have shut down in 2016 can now keep producing oil until 2100.
Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
Key question for consequentialists: If “non-traditional” vaccines are in fact treatments as under the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, what happens to the liability of Pfizer et al. for vaccine injury?
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
The Russian Endgame in Ukraine and European Resistance to “Right Wing” Advances: A Thought Experiment
How the unexpected success of right wing parties in France, Germany, and Austria might be focusing a few minds about Russia.
Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
The Desire to Be “Your Own Boss” in America
On the romance of being you own boss.
The War Racket in Germany
What happens when everyone starts to believe in the con?
Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
One Issue Proved Key to the Opposition’s Stunning Success in India’s Election: Caste Politics
Did Modi’s BJP suffer a setback due to failing to provide enough economic benefits to lower-caste voters?
