Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources

Demand for materials like lithium that are essential to many so-called “green energy” technologies are setting up conflicts, including war.

Iran’s Latest Move Brings A New Nuclear Deal With The U.S. Closer

The US is trying to craft JCPOA 2.0 with Iran.

The Resumption Of US Military Activity In Niger Puts France On The Strategic Backfoot

The Niger situation has developed not necessarily to France’s advantage.

The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.

Cost Of Living Crisis Threatens EU Energy Transition

Worries that EU voters will reject the climate change diet, at least partly due to failure to impose sacrifices on the rich, who are carbon pigs

The Reported Russian-North Korean Military Deal Is All About Geostrategic Balancing

Looking at the logic of the Russian deal with North Korea.

The South China Sea’s Resource Wars

Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.

Has the West Closed All Its Project Ukraine Exits?

Have the US and NATO managed to box themselves in with the Ukraine war?

“Unrealized Losses” on Securities Held by Banks, Oh Dearie, the Whole Schmear: +8%, to $558 Billion

We now have to pay attention to unrealized losses in the banking system.

The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room

Ignoring the large role of the Pentagon in CO2 emissions is a huge omission in climate change remedies.

WaPo Reported That Ukrainians Are Distrustful of the West & Flirting With a Ceasefire

The Post reports that Ukrainians are worried that the West might largely abandon them. But their ideas of what happens then are way too rosy.

Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges

While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.

How 9/11 Bred a “War on Terror” on Steroids

Tracing how the US response to 9/11 got us where we are, in a bad way for us and far worse for much of the Middle East.

I Posed as a Private Jet Customer. This Is What I Was Told About Emissions

Private jet companies want us to believe in “guilt-free” and “carbon-neutral” flights despite their sky-high emissions

Productive and Unproductive Crises

Making a case from past crises that we’ll muddle through our current set and thanks to technology, eventually come out better.