Michael Hudson: Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart
NATO is looking wobbly and many of its woes are self inflicted.
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What Would a Russian Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
Russia has some thorny and apparently not resolved questions about its end game in Ukraine.
Read more...Israeli Newspaper Confirms IDF Employed ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7
IDF soldiers were reportedly ordered to “turn the area around the border fence into a killing zone.”
Read more...Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...‘Disturbing Milestone’: Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Surpass 1,000 Since October 7
A group of aid agencies decried that no Israeli civilian or soldier has been prosecuted for any of these 1,000 attacks in the West Bank.
Read more...Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led ‘Revolution’
The “second American Revolution” underway will “remain bloodless,” said the head of Project 2025 “if the left allows it to be.”
Read more...The Houthis Turn the Red Sea Redder, Stymieing Israel and the US
A look at the history of Yemen, its place in the region, and the remarkable Houthi campaign against Israel and Red Sea shipping.
Read more...Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Yet another NATO summit has escalation on the agenda, despite the weakening of the West’s position.
Read more...Balancing Green Goals and Financial Realities: Labour’s Net Zero Dilemma
Yet another example of inadequate green targets meeting the notion that even that much action is somehow too costly.
Read more...Michael Hudson: 18th Century Writers Understand Effects of War Debt Better Than IMF
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF’s view of war debt is dangerously misguided and older economic thinkers had much better take.
Read more...Biden Crashes, Trump Lies: A Campaign-Defining Presidential Debate
Yves here. The presidential debate last night is likely to go down as being of historical importance, in the same league as the Kennedy-Nixon debate. But here, instead of demonstrating how the then-young medium rewarded good looks and a confident affect, here it showed two men, which as often happens with the aged, having become […]
Read more...The U.S. Is Nowhere Near Ready for Climate Change
Climate change is cooking our collective gooses. What can be done to reduce the damage?
Read more...Despite Warnings, Israel Looks Set to Jump Off Lebanon Ledge
Israel looks like it is about to bite off way more than it can chew in instigating a hot war with Lebanon.
Read more...Between the Kremlin Cup and the General Staff Lip After Sunday’s Crimea and Dagestan Attacks
Another tug-of-war between the Russian General Staff plus its hawkish friends and Putin.
Read more...Russia and Ukraine Trade Drone Strikes on Energy Facilities
Ukraine has increased attacks on Russian energy assets as Russia continues its campaign against the Ukraine grid. Who is doing more damage?
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