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Monday, June 23, 2025
Links 4/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 147 Comments »
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.
Topics: Africa, China, Globalization, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 11 Comments »
What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?
Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon.
Topics: Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 68 Comments »
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.
Topics: Africa, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 8 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Europe
Posted by Kevin Kirk at 2:00 pm | 33 Comments »
Links 4/28/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 110 Comments »
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
Topics: China, Energy markets, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Middle East, Russia
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 17 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, India
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 4/27/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 121 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 26 Comments »
‘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.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 4 Comments »
Links 4/26/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 122 Comments »
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.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:45 am | 45 Comments »
Scholars Under Fire
An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:21 am | 11 Comments »
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. […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 38 Comments »