Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

As Climate Disasters Increase, Official Responses Like FEMA to Helene Come Up Short

On the oddly muted reporting of FEMA’s performance in Helene, and why that matters for future disaster responses.

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff: BRICS High Aspirations Versus Cautious First Steps

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the recent BRICS summit as well as its rapidly-evolving geopolitical backdrop.

‘Hate and Lust for Vengeance Are Passed Like Poison from One Generation to the Next’

Vengeance is coming home.

The Great Game of Logistics

Logistics corridors play an increasing role in the New Cold War. Do workers lose no matter who wins?

Heterodox Approaches Will Provide Answers to the Multiple Cascading Crises of Our Future

The old normal is rigid and destructive to humans and the planet. Heterodox ideas offer some hope, but will they be sufficient?

The Dark Side of AI-Powered Synthetic Biology

Another warning about the dangers of AI-supercharged synthetic biology.

Will the Conflicts in the Middle East Spill Over Into the Caucasus (Part 2): What Are the US and Türkiye Up To?

The US tutors Armenia on the ins and outs of being non-agreement-capable. Türkiye up to no good? Russia remains patient.

Thomas Neuburger: Carbon Sinks Are Failing

On carbon sinks becoming inoperative: ‘Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end’

Will the Conflicts in the Middle East Spill Over Into the Caucasus?

The standoff between Armenia and Azerbaijan is being used to apply more pressure on Iran and has all the signs of a neocon divide and conquer scheme.

“Powder Keg in the Pacific, How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific”

A reader critical thinking exercise in the form of a neocon justification of US efforts to contain China.

“Is The West Prepared to Deal With Potential Iranian Sabotage of the Oil Market?”

A discussion of some of the ways Iran could use economic, as in oil, leverage to retaliate against an Israel strike.

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Israel’s End-Game Under Netanyahu

Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson discuss Israel as a colonial project in an era where demonizing the natives is no longer a winning propaganda strategy.

Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily

A new paper in Nature finds that exceeding a 1.5°C increase in global temperature is more deadly and durable than previously thought.

Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans [Update]

Netanyahu, drunk on his power and his love of destruction, keeps upping the ante.

Let’s Stop Pretending That We Can Escape from Climate Change

The search for safe places to hide from climate change impacts is already underway, yet is set to be largely futile.