Climate Minister: Until People in Developed Nations Start Dying, Nothing Will Change
What level of climate pain will it take to stir advanced countries out of their complacency?
Read more...What level of climate pain will it take to stir advanced countries out of their complacency?
Read more...Why is Germany in thrall to the US, to Germany’s great detriment? A historical analogy provides some insight.
Read more...Moscow accuses the West of using an Ukraine-style strategy in Armenia as more players enter the fold and the situation in the South Caucuses risks spiraling out of control.
Read more...Russia launches another high-intensity attack on Ukraine’s electric grid, and John Helmer continues his analysis of Russia’s strategy.
Read more...John Helmer picks apart the not-well-understood story of who betrayed whom when Gorbachev agreed to the lousy US “not one inch” promise.
Read more...The global food system, heavily influenced by the big grain companies, needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes
Read more...Satyajit Das’ final post on where the world order is headed.
Read more...It has now become barely acceptable to say it might be a good idea to seek an end to the Ukraine war.
Read more...Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.
Read more...Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites
Read more...Big oil has some mighty pretty commercials.
Read more...Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.
Read more...The IEA has finally, late in the game, goten the nerve to sound alarms about energy shortages. But nary a word about the role of sanctions
Read more...Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.
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