Courage or Hope? Facing the Climate Future
Yet another round of (nicely) trying to shake some sense into climate change remedy optimists.
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Power in Sovereign Debt Markets: Explaining the Uneven Debtor–Creditor Landscape and Its Implications
A long time ago, the US intervened on the side of underwater sovereign borrowers. Private creditors now extract even more than back then.
Read more...Bird Flu and Biomedicine, An Essay on What We Might Expect
Bird flu as a case study in the category error of libertarian medicine, the misuse of preprints, and resulting poor public health policy.
Read more...The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
Read more...Links 6/18/2024
Private Equity Becomes Roach Motel as Public Pension Funds and Other Investors Borrow As Funds Remain Tied Up
Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?
Read more...Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU
How the US has used control over the supply of key agricultural commodities to defend its hegemony.
Read more...Links 6/15/2024
French Snap Elections: ‘Cohabitation’ Could Reshuffle the Cards Between President and Prime Minister
What are the practical consequences if French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc fares poorly in the upcoming snap elections?
Read more...Michael Hudson: US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
Yet another cryptocurrency scheme, here for its major use case, tax evasion. But for a good cause, the US dollar!
Read more...“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...Western Officials and Press Starting to Acknowledge Impact of Russian Electric War on Ukraine
The Anglospehere press is slowly waking up to the relentlessness and effectiveness of Russia’s electric war in Ukraine.
Read more...Biofuels Manufacturing Found To Be a Significant Source of Hazardous Air Pollution
Biofuels plants emit serious nasties like formaldehyde.
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