Sri Lanka’s Arrest of Aeroflot Plane Was the Straw that Broke President Rajapaksa’s Back
How Sri Lanka tried, and may still be trying, to play Moscow off against Washington.
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‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Seniors Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
Why aging in the US is worse than it ought to be.
Read more...Seven Skripal Secrets The Secret Intelligence Service Didn’t Want To Let Out
No one, and I mean no one, is hearing from the Skripals despite a public inquiry into a seemingly related, apparent nerve agent death.
Read more...Sri Lanka: Why the Philippines Offers a Warning for What Might Come Next
Could Sri Lanka see the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines?
Read more...‘Crushing News’: Appeals Court Greenlights Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban
The most restrictive abortion law in the US is now in effect, despite its scientifically-dubioius “heatbeat” standard.
Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health
The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Happy Bastille Day: Some Musings on Recent Events in Sri Lanka
Reflections on Bastille Day 2022: Last Saturday, Sri Lankans stormed their presidential palace, causing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to the Maldives.
Read more...What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry
The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.
Read more...‘Good. Now Declare It,’ Says Pressley as Biden Mulls Health Emergency for Abortion Rights
Would declaring a public health emergency work as a Biden Administration abortion Hail Mary pass?
Read more...Rishi Sunak Could Become PM. Here’s What He Doesn’t Want You to Know
From offshore dealings to right-wing think tanks, a guide to Rishi Sunak, the man who could become the UK’s richest PM
Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
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Boris Johnson agonistes.
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