Saturday, December 27, 2025
China Prepares in Central Asia to Withstand Any Western Isolation Efforts
Beijing is strengthening land supply chains in case the West tries to disrupt its seaborne commerce.
Electric War Goes West – Depopulation Turns Into Displacement Turns Into Civil War in Galicia
More on how Russia is expected to use its electric supply attacks to depopulate key Ukraine cities.
The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home
The US is being run out of Niger. A lot of our “hegemon forever” spending is going down the drain.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics, plus Trump posts his bond, Kennedy’s “paranoid style,” and more detail on Shanahan. ~
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
Brussels Begins to Mobilise Its Mass Censorship Regime for Upcoming EU Elections
This is the culmination of a process that began at least a decade ago.
How the Electric War Is Redrawing the Ukraine Map – In Black
Like so many things, the electric war has developed not necessarily to Ukraine’s advantage.
A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
“Ensh*ttification”: A General Theory for the Life Cycle of the Firm?
“It is the people that distinguish one company from another.”
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration
In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten details how global warming could displace millions of Americans.
