Similar to how US overreach made Russia and China allies, so too have US policies in the Middle East lead Iran and Iraq to team up.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Book collecting among the youth, Boeing executives auto-defenestrate, history of blotter, Starbucks map. ~
Monstrous Zionist Extermination in Gaza Continues as US Attempts Voter-Appeasing Headfakery
Some Gaza updates: carnage and starvation on the ground, cynical US machinations, and more signs of IDF weakness.
US Scheme to Challenge Russian Dominance in Nuclear Energy Faces Major Obstacles – Including an Overreliance on Russia
Plans suffer from design flaws, cost overruns, and a reliance on Russia for multiple stages of the nuclear fuel cycle.
After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
By Brett Kelman, Correspondent, who joined KFF Health News after 15 years of beat reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network, and Samantha Liss, Midwest Correspondent, who is an award-winning journalist covering the business of health care for the past decade. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. In the small Appalachian city of […]
Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models
Covid Roundup: #CovidIsAirborne, NPIs, Sequelae, Immune Dysregulation, Social Norming, Official Maleficence, Eugenics (and More)
The “director’s cut” of Covid coverage
The Rise and Fall of Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
This column studies the rise and fall of paper money in 13-14th century China over three stages: full silver convertibility, nominal silver convertibility, and fiat standard.
Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”
Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”
The Truth About China’s Economy: Debunking Western Media Myths
The second of a two-part discussion on whither China’s economy, emphasizing where the Western press and pundits are off base.
Generative AI Could Leave Users Holding the Bag for Copyright Violations
Liability for the use of AI that in turn is meaningfully based on copyrighted material could throw a spanner in the AI bandwagon.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Pandemics, politics, whistleblower Barnett’s assassination gradually memory-holed, fasting, “we have the tools” ~
