What does it say about AFRICOM’s counterterrorism mission when nationalized mines increasingly come under attack and the US proxy state of Ukraine is training terrorists the US is supposed to be fighting?
Read more...Design serves capitalism by devising abstract forms.
Read more...Big Ag comes for the Amish.
Read more...A study of China’s shipbuilding industrial policy finds big market share gains did not produce domestic welfare benefits.
Read more...Robbing Africa’s riches to save the climate (and power AI).
Read more...A discussion of some proposals for the BRICS de-dollarization project, suggesting a lack of convergence of ideas among key players.
Read more...A tip of the cap to the geniuses at the US State Department.
Read more...Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.
Read more...The US ceding its once-dominant position in rare earths comes back to bite, as China uses rare earths to retaliate against US sanctions.
Read more...Biden might be senile and Blinken stupid, but it’s the plutocrats and their think tanks that run the show in Washington.
Read more...Another sober take on near and perhaps intermediate-term electric vehicle prospects.
Read more...An updated look at the classic resource curse.
Read more...How the US has used control over the supply of key agricultural commodities to defend its hegemony.
Read more...A Canadian oil field that should have shut down in 2016 can now keep producing oil until 2100.
Read more...Italy also faces major energy squeeze from Red Sea crisis. Will opposition to Project Ukraine solidify or will Rome go along as it usually does?
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