Nuclear Energy: The New Geopolitical Battleground
The Collective West scrambles to replace Russia as a source of nuclear fuel and services.
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Work Longer, Die Sooner! America’s Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Read more...How Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.
Read more...Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...An Iowa Farm County Seeks Answers Amid Cancer Rates 50% Higher than National Average
More evidence on cancer clusters in the Corn Belt, and the difficulty of rallying official interest and help.
Read more...Is a Future-Proof Science Possible?
The latest in KLG’s arc of posts on the theory and practice of science in the so-called modern world.
Read more...Israel’s War on Gaza Could Spark Protests that Shape Entire Region
While media focus is on pro-Palestine protests in the US, anger in North Africa and Western Asia could boil over
Read more...European Economic Security in an Age of Interdependence
Europe leaders and experts are spooked by what Covid and Ukraine war, erm, energy actions have done to their supply sources. What to do?
Read more...Why the IEA is Wrong About Peak Oil Demand
Why peak oil, like Godot, keeps not arriving.
Read more...Trump Promises to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy − But It Didn’t Work Then and Is Less Likely to Do So Now
A clinical look at the viability of Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation plan.
Read more...UK Banks Will Go Bust Because of Climate Change
The UK has low-lying terrain that has nevertheless been developed and will go underwater with climate change and take a lot of banks with it.
Read more...Tuberculosis Emergency in California After Death in Homeless Shelter Outbreak; Follows Chicago Migrant Shelter Cluster and Earlier IM Doc Anecdata
The rise in tuberculosis cases as an indictment of US public health and immigration policy.
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