A Marine’s Assessment of Russia’s Military “Operation” in Ukraine (a “Profound Appreciation of All Three Realms in Which Wars Are Waged”)
A dissident view on Ukraine. The first of many?
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Third Time May Not Be Charm for Patel as Voters Reluctant to Embrace Generational Change
A case study of why voters are inclinded to stick with office-holders well past their sell-by dates.
Read more...America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
Read more...Italian Technocrats Allow the Right to Weaponize Democracy
Why the Italian right looks set to go from strength to strength.
Read more...Think the Financial Crisis Is Over? Mortgage Servicers Still Abusing Borrowers For 10+ Years, Thanks to Lax Fannie/Freddie Oversight
Mortgage servicers are torturing borrowers who have been unable to pay for over a decade. All they are doing now is ripping off governments.
Read more...Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
Read more...UPS Drivers Demand AC in Trucks Following Heat Wave: ‘It’s Like Walking Into Hell’
Delivery drivers work in what ought to be illegal conditions. Will anything change?
Read more...Left in the Dark: The Families Struggling to Survive Fuel Poverty
The future many in the UK and Europe will suffer this winter: having to choose between food and fuel.
Read more...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.
Read more...‘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.
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