Monday, June 23, 2025

Links 4/29/2025

Chokepoint Crazy: The U.S. Bombs Both Sides of Gulf of Aden and Considers Setting Up Shop in Somaliland

Bombs fall on Yemen. Bombs fall on Somalia. The US considers recognizing Somaliland in desperate attempt to dominate Red Sea. 

What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?

Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon. 

Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.

Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Dying Western Empire

The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.

Links 4/28/2025

Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way 

Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions

Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support

More than 300 million people rely on the Indus River Basin for their survival. The treaty governing its use is falling apart.

Links 4/27/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) Run Time: 1h 55m

The Sunday Morning Movies presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) A fine example of a Spaghetti Western in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

‘We Deserve to Breathe Clean Air’: Southwest Memphians Take On Elon Musk’s xAI

Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.

Links 4/26/2025

Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.

Scholars Under Fire

An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.

Coffee Break: The Current State of Science During Trump v.2.0 Plus One Signal Advance

As someone who has spent most of his working life as a scientific worker and later as an academic scientist, graduate supervisor, teacher, grant reviewer, and administrator, the current devastation being visited upon my colleagues and their institutions is sickening.  I have never thought my work was more useful or more important than anyone else’s.  […]