Author Archives: Conor Gallagher

The EU Threatens to Cut Itself off From Another of Its Major Natural Gas Suppliers

Issues with supplies from Qatar — the world’s third largest exporter of LNG — could be a major boon for US gas companies.

Will Trump Take On the Housing Cartels?

The DOJ case against RealPage for orchestrating a rental housing price-fixing cartel will tell us a lot about the economic direction of Trump 2.0.

Democracy Dies in the EU: Romania Edition

Is the cancelling of the Romanian election a harbinger of what’s to come in Western “democracies”?

Links 12/23/2024

Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious − That Could Already Be Hurting Animals That Are Grazers

More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.

Link 12/22/2024

The US Embrace of Incarceration for the Homeless Is a Win-Win for the Plutocrats

Ignoring the true causes of the homeless crisis while expanding the carceral state helps discipline labor.

Links 12/18/2024

The US Is Left Out in the Cold as China and Russia Develop Arctic

RAND proposes familiar blunders to deal with rival powers’ partnership — one that Washington helped instigate.

Did Türkiye Win the Battle, But Lose the War?

Ankara burns bridges with Beijing and Moscow and is now stuck with Syrian albatross around the neck as emboldened Turkish imperialists eye future conquests.

Links 12/9/2024

Access to PPE, a Critical Tool in Fighting Bird Flu, Is Mixed Across Dairy-Producing States, Records Show

States with confirmed dairy cattle bird flu cases have drastically different personal protective equipment responses, and most are failing.

Links 12/8/2024

Could Chinese Control Over Strategic Minerals Coupled with US Corruption Cripple the Sputtering US War Machine?

China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.