The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action on climate change is needed
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Brexit: Corbyn’s Cakeism; Norway Rejects “Norway”
More Brexit follies.
Huawei’s Meng Snagged Due to US Bank Sanctions
More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Without Obamacare Penalty, Think It’ll Be Nice To Drop Your Health Insurance? Better Think Twice
The ACA hasn’t made heath insurance more affordable for quite a few people.
Bernie Sanders: Concentrated Wealth Is Concentrated Power
Bernie Sanders discusses how concentrated economic power is distorting American politics and society.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Sanders, Biden, Beto, NC election theft, Democrat number crunchers, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Maersk, productivity, employment situation, manufacturing, services, trade, carbon and industry, Trump, and Diblasio, blogging, Tony Bourdain, hippies and vibes
Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Brexit: More Unicorns
The Brexit situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of Theresa May.
Huawei CFO, Daughter of Founder and Possible Heir Apparent, Arrested in Canada on a US Extradition Request on Charges of Transfer of US Technology to Iran
A US criminal case targeting Huawei has thrown a big spanner into US-China relations.
George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Aluminum and steel tariffs, Beto and Obama, the crowded Democrat field, lame duck power grabs, Bush hagiography, Jeffrey Epstein, mortgages, cobalt, Google, social media, coal, hospitals, single payer, charter school strike, gut bacteria in your brain
G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
