NATO Training Leaves Ukrainian Troops ‘Underprepared’ for War
The veneer of NATO superiority is cracking as the Ukraine and its sponsors engage in a blame game over why the war is going so badly.
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber
Hubert Horan takes another hard look at Uber financials and finds much not to like.
Read more...U.S. And China Locked in an Underwater Cable Tug-of-War
A cable impasse in the South Pacific, due in large part to failings in both US and Chinese legal and enforcement regimes.
Read more...America’s Supersized Military: “The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History”
William Astore provides a cold look at the gap between the cost and overly-ambitious aims of the US military versus results.
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Angus Deaton on How Neoliberal Ideology Produced Abject US Falling Life Expectancy for Less Educated
Angus Deaton returns to his deaths of despair theme, with updated data and a pointed critique of the role of Chicago School libertarians.
Read more...The Movie and the Moment: An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist
Some reviewers of the movie Oppenheimer such as Scott Ritter criticize if for effectively whitewashing the horror of nuclear strikes
Read more...The NIH Ices a Research Project on “Health Communication”. Is It Self-Censorship?
What sure looks like an NIH study to improve the medical establishment’s propaganda skills had died a well-deserved death.
Read more...Oil, Gas, Wages, Interest Rates: Biden’s Other 2024 Risks
A supposedly good economy has not helped Biden much and trends such as oil prices do not look to be in his favor.
Read more...War Hawks’ Drive to Expand NATO into Asia May Destroy Western Military Alliance
Individuals can fail upwards, but organizations? NATO not been up to the task of propping up Ukraine, but the US wants to aim it at China.
Read more...Links 8/5/2023
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. v. Google Alleges First Amendment Violations via YouTube Censorship as a State Actor
Oh frabjous day! RFK, Jr. has lobbed a very big bomb at the heart of the censorship apparatus.
Read more...More on the Collapse of Operational Capabilities in the West: How Did We Get Here
Some thoughts on the rapid decline in operational capabilities, or why tons of people, particularly those in charge, are no good at their jobs
Read more...Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle
Rob Urie makes a reasoned, data-backed case that the tools used in supposed democracies to enforce class standing merit the label of fascism
Read more...Russia Is Finally Correcting False Perceptions of BRICS
Russia is dialing down expectations for big BRICS developments at a late August summit.
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