Category Archives: Guest Post
The US Strategy in the Black Sea Region Is Falling Apart
Washington’s goal is to exclude Russia and China from energy and infrastructure projects extending from the Caspian to Europe, but the opposite is happening.
Read more...Home Improvement
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana
Read more...Zombie Wells: A $280 Billion Problem the U.S. Can’t Ignore
Supposedly shuttered but toxic oil wells are yet another large-scale cost of the Western addiction to cheap energy.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; new RCP polling table; Reticulum; and quasi-open thread ~
Read more...Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
How disputed allegations against Planned Parenthood have given a big boost to the anti-reproductive-control juggernaut.
Read more...Links 8/16/2024
Western Media Finally Begin Warning About the Dark Side of Digital Identity… in China
The volume of critical coverage of China’s proposed digital ID system in Western media stands in stark contrast to the near-total absence of coverage, critical or otherwise, of digital ID systems being developed by Western governments.
Read more...Confronting Low Fertility Rates and Population Decline
Some practical ideas for how to manage population shrinkage. But will neoliberalism get in the way?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Walter Kirn on Kamala; Trump to jail September 18?; Sanders on 2020; Monkeypox ~
Read more...The Rat Race for Research Funding Delays Scientific Progress
How bad incentives and funders’ love of glitz lead to poor scientific research outcomes and demotivated academics.
Read more...Links 8/15/2024
Americans Love Free Speech, Survey Finds − Until They Realize Everyone Else Has It, Too
A new American norm: “Free speech for me, but not for thee!”
Read more...Saving in Itself Is Merely Negative
Debunking yet another appealing-sounding but elite-serving idea, here the premise that savings is always good and more is better.
Read more...US Defense Firms Reluctant to Cooperate with Ukraine Due to Safety, Corruption
Quelle surprise! The grand scheme to build a weapons industry in Ukraine appears to be going pear shaped.
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