Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Something Remarkable Just Happened This August: How the Pandemic Has Sped Up the Passage to Postcapitalism

Yanis Varioufakis discusses the emerging shape of postcapitalism.

Earl Katz: Regenerative Agriculture and Massive Planting of Trees is Our Only Hope

Earl Katz, an early climate change warrior, looks at the dwindling number of options humans have for alleviating global warming.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2020

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

How the Agricultural Lobby Is Sabotaging Europe’s Green Deal

The European Commission’s ambitous Green Deal plans are already stumbling over bureaucratic infighting and ag industry opposition.

Links 8/21/2020

Looting, American Style: CEOs Get Big Pre-Bankruptcy Bonuses Even When Lenders and Employees Stiffed

Failed CEOs succeed in looting their companies on the verge of bankruptcy filings.

Saudi Arabia Refuses To Learn From Its Two Failed Oil Price Wars

The oil situation has developed not necessarily to Saudi Arabia’s advantage, but MbS appears not to have gotten the memo.

Global Warming Is Accelerating. (In Other News, Democrats Reverse Platform, Won’t End Fossil Fuel Subsidies)

The Democrats busy themselves with a self-love fest as they ignore more and more dire evidence of the progress of global warming.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2020

~ The adults in the room at the Democratic National Convention ~

Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coronavirus Means You Get Less Sick

More evidence in support of masks.

Links 8/20/2020

Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part II – The Strategy

Where you wind up when you take libertarian ideas to their logical conclusion…..

How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves

How consolidation in dairy processing has led to overproduction of milk and dumping.

Apollo’s Leon Black, Found in Serial Child Rapist Jeffrey Epstein’s Black Book, Patronized Strip Club in Russia With Trump

Apollo’s Leon Black needs to develop better taste in friends.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/19/2020

~ Water Cooler ~