The narrative that Warsaw will become the new power center of NATO in Europe and should take western Ukraine and/or fight Russia picks up steam.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The Increasing Number of Trial Balloons for Polish Intervention in Ukraine
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 84 Comments »
Links 4/15/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 265 Comments »
Russia Leaves Neoliberal West to Join World Majority
The sanctions against Russia and Russia’s kinetic war in Ukraine have produced great changes in and outside. But what are their implications?
Topics: Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Russia, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 62 Comments »
Clarence Thomas Proves Its Time for Supreme Court Term Limits
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been caught out engaging in serious misconduct. But what to do?
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:35 am | 32 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/14/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 79 Comments »
Amid Efforts to Cool the Planet, Solar Geoengineering Draws Heated Debate
Geoengineering schemes are getting more press as CO2 levels keep rising. But how can their risks be assessed?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 33 Comments »
Links 4/14/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 127 Comments »
Larry Johnson and Other Former Insiders Debunk Air Guardsman-as-Pentagon-Leaker Story as Press Cheers Arrest
The Air National Guardsman as Pentagon leaker story is comig apart. But like “six guys in a boat”, no one in polite company will say so.
Topics: Media watch, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 175 Comments »
German Vaccine Maker BioNtech Faces Series of Lawsuits for Alleged COVID-19 Vaccine Harms
The experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that were developed and launched to market in record time, generating record profits for their manufacturers as well as injuries for untold thousands, will be put to the test before the German courts.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:42 am | 39 Comments »
Banning TikTok Could Weaken Personal Cybersecurity
Banning TikTok would be a messy business….and probably not technologically enforceable.
Topics: China, Guest Post, Legal, Regulations and regulators, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:32 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/13/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 116 Comments »
Is National Public Radio Actually National Private Radio?
Matt Bruenig does the unthinkable and investigates the quetion of whether National Public Radio is state media.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 70 Comments »
Links 4/13/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 172 Comments »
Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy
One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:42 am | 32 Comments »
Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:44 am | 9 Comments »