Russia’s Second-Ever Use of the Oreshniks Was a Response to Three Recent Provocations
Russia seems finally to have gotten the memo about Trump’s worse-than-bad-US-norms duplicity and love of violence and is escalating.
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The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Read more...New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System
The NYC transit authority considers how AI with its existing cameras might detect weapons, monitor unattended items or even foresee stampedes.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Much Ado About Nothing – Why President Trump’s ‘Big Deals” Are No Big Deals
A clinical look at Trump’s deal hucksterism versus his typical modest-at-best results.
Read more...Is Trump Building a Massive Data Center Beneath the East Wing? If So, Why?
Is the East Wing redo intended to include a massive data center/command installation? If so, what is the main object of concern?
Read more...In ‘Unhinged’ Rant, Miller Says US Has Right to Take Over Any Country For Its Resources
White House adviser Steve Miller pulls off the mask and shows the face of imperialism: “What’s yours is mine.”
Read more...American Hegemony by AI: The Role of Israel
The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...Why Politicians Won’t Fix Affordability
Why affordability crisis is a symptom of predatory neoliberal practices. Concentrated wealth looks set to keep this new norm in place.
Read more...Two Decades of Chinese Industrial Subsidies
A profile of China’s subsidies and how they have changed over time. Counter-intuitively, agriculture is the most important recipient.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. War Without Boundaries
Over the past two decades, use of U.S. military force has shifted from an exceptional act governed by law and public accountability to a flexible, discretionary instrument of policy. This article examines how post-9/11 legal authorities, institutional convergence, and secrecy have eroded the boundaries between war, intelligence, and governance—producing a system of permanent, unbounded conflict.
Read more...With Global Attention on Venezuela, Israel Intensifies Assault on Gaza, Lebanon
Israel continues to kill children because it can.
Read more...Reopening the Veins of Latin America
It seems that a new chapter in Latin America’s long history of “open veins” is about to be written, and unfortunately Eduardo Galeano is no longer around to do it.
Read more...Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) Drops to Zero, from $75 Billion on the Last Balance Sheet as Yearend Liquidity Turmoil Dissolves
Unpacking the much-ado-about-nothing over year-end use of the Fed’s pet liquidity-providing mechanism, its standing repo facility.
Read more...Coffee Break: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Makes Microslop Trend
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made the term Microslop go viral with his admonition to “get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication.”
Read more...EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live, Eliciting Threats from China and Perhaps Soon, the US
China and India are unhappy about a new EU carbon tax on exports like steel. The US is expected to join the chorus. Will they retaliate?
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