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Sunday, December 21, 2025
After a Long, Hard Summer, Southern Europe’s Long Awaited Tourism Recovery Remains Largely Elusive
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:51 am | 19 Comments »
Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies
Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Income disparity, Infrastructure, Politics, Real estate, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:25 am | 25 Comments »
With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 4:55 am | 8 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2021
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 110 Comments »
Waste Watch: New EPA Reports Document Chemical and Plastics Contamination in Compost
In two August reports documenting the presence of PFAS and plastics contaminants in compost, the EPA tags food waste as the source.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 1:55 pm | 15 Comments »
Links 9/8/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 198 Comments »
A Climate Disaster Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes—And Politicians Still Refuse to Take Action
Tropical storm Ida reminds us how little U.S. politicians have done to address climate change since Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 36 Comments »
US as Failed State: Covid Booster Shot Mess
The booster situation has developed not necessarily to the Biden Administration’s advantage.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Health care, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:01 am | 92 Comments »
US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:01 am | 20 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2021
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 105 Comments »
The Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
The professional-managerial class looks to be igoring Sun Tsu’s warning: “Tactics without strategy is the noise before the defeat.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 286 Comments »
Links 9/7/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 115 Comments »
As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, India, Japan, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:53 am | 127 Comments »
What I Did Over Labor Day (Dimash!)
Dimash strikes again.
Topics: Curiousities
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:01 am | 13 Comments »
The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:41 am | 27 Comments »


