On April 22, unknown terrorists attacked tourists in the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam, India, killing 25 of them. The attackers reportedly segregated the victims based on religion before executing Hindus. Like earlier terror strikes, such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the 2016 Uri attack, and the 2019 Pulwama-Balakot crisis, the […]
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – India/Pakistan Tinderbox
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 3 Comments »
Suddenly Everything Stopped: Nationwide Blackouts in Spain and Portugal Underscore Extreme Fragility of Our Modern Systems
As the system comes back online and attention turns to the possible cause(s) of one of Europe’s largest peacetime blackouts, one thing is clear: without cash, the chaos would have been far worse.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 9:00 am | 58 Comments »
Links 4/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 99 Comments »
Chokepoint Crazy: The U.S. Bombs Both Sides of Gulf of Aden and Considers Setting Up Shop in Somaliland
Bombs fall on Yemen. Bombs fall on Somalia. The US considers recognizing Somaliland in desperate attempt to dominate Red Sea.
Topics: Africa, China, Globalization, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 10 Comments »
What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?
Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon.
Topics: Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 48 Comments »
Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.
Topics: Africa, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 5 Comments »
Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Dying Western Empire
The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.
Topics: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Europe
Posted by Kevin Kirk at 2:00 pm | 32 Comments »
Links 4/28/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 110 Comments »
Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way
Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions
Topics: China, Energy markets, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Middle East, Russia
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 16 Comments »
Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support
More than 300 million people rely on the Indus River Basin for their survival. The treaty governing its use is falling apart.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, India
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 4:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 4/27/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 121 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) Run Time: 1h 55m
The Sunday Morning Movies presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) A fine example of a Spaghetti Western in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 26 Comments »
‘We Deserve to Breathe Clean Air’: Southwest Memphians Take On Elon Musk’s xAI
Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 4 Comments »
Links 4/26/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 122 Comments »
Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:45 am | 43 Comments »