Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Underestimate Russia at Your Own Risk: A Comparison of Hubris by Germany During WWII and Today’s Collective West
The miscalculations by Berlin in the second world war and Washington/NATO today are eerily similar.
Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl
Juan Cole examines the US climate change crimes against Iraq and how the neocon’s destructive foreign adventures are increasingly as if the US is invading itself.
The Impact of Brexit on the UK economy: Reviewing the Evidence
Two-thirds of the British public think Brexit has damaged the economy, and all indications are that they’re right. Where does the UK go from here?
Turkiye Refuses to Back Down on Sweden Accession Ahead of NATO Summit
Will the West give Erdogan what he wants?
Kakhovka Dam Breach in Ukraine Caused Economic, Agricultural and Ecological Devastation That Will Last for Years
Ukrainian yields had already fallen by as much as 60 percent. With the loss of the dam and reservoir, agricultural production will shrink further, affecting food security around the world.
The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash
Michael Hudson takes a long, hard look at the origins and costs of the Fed’s ZIRP policy.
It’s Not That Hard to Solve Homelessness
America has the means to substantially alleviate homelessness but not the desire.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2023
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Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind discuss how belief in infinite growth came to seem reasonable in philosophy and economics.
The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?
Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.
The Return of Child Labor As the Latest Sign of American Decline
Child exploitation is baack! How did we get here?
