The Evidence on the Crocus Gang Attack in Moscow
An update on information and conjectures about the Crocus City Hall massacre.
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Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
“Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure.”
Read more...Links 3/26/2024
Mapping the Economic Costs of War
Looking at the economic impact of war on neighboring countries, including ones not part of the theater of conflict.
Read more...Iraq And Iran Will Expedite Development Of Sanctions-Busting Shared Oil Fields
Similar to how US overreach made Russia and China allies, so too have US policies in the Middle East lead Iran and Iraq to team up.
Read more...Monstrous Zionist Extermination in Gaza Continues as US Attempts Voter-Appeasing Headfakery
Some Gaza updates: carnage and starvation on the ground, cynical US machinations, and more signs of IDF weakness.
Read more...Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models
Read more...Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”
Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”
Read more...Links 3/23/2024
The Truth About China’s Economy: Debunking Western Media Myths
The second of a two-part discussion on whither China’s economy, emphasizing where the Western press and pundits are off base.
Read more...Generative AI Could Leave Users Holding the Bag for Copyright Violations
Liability for the use of AI that in turn is meaningfully based on copyrighted material could throw a spanner in the AI bandwagon.
Read more...Financial Times Tells CalPERS Not to Go Further Into the Private Equity Haunted House
The Financial Times debunks private equity flim-flammery even as CalPERS and others sign up for more.
Read more...Links 3/22/2024
Texas Law Forces Pension Funds and Municipalities to Drop Use of Financial Firms that Support Net Zero
Texas is counter-sanctioning Big Finance firms over Net Zero initiatives designed to choke money flows to fossil fuel businesses.
Read more...“The Censorship Trap”
Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.
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