Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Rise of the Drones
Our warfare-focused Coffee Break: Drone technology’s dramatic impact on current warfare, its rapid evolution, and the danger of its unrestricted development
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Labour Is Becoming the Enemy of the Vulnerable and the Disabled
Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
Read more...BlackRock’s Takeover of Panama Canal’s Two Main Ports Is First Major Victory for Trump’s “Americas First” Policy
But what could it mean for China’s trade relations with Latin America, in particular the US’ largest trade partner Mexico?
Read more...Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
Yet more punishing the poors, here in the form of unduly punitive clawbacks of accidental Social Security overpayments.
Read more...Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping
An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond
This week’s Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
Read more...Climate Change: Insuring the World of Tomorrow
Leading edge conventional wisdom on the role of insurance as climate disasters increase underestimates the severity of the problem.
Read more...Authorities Reject Georgescu’s Presidential Candidacy, Sparking Violence In Bucharest
Western media continue to lie about the reason Romanian courts nullified the country’s November presidential election and are now preventing an anti-NATO candidate from running.
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The Empire Rebrands: Foreign Policy Under Trump 2.0
The woke imperium is dead. Long live the American AI “post-democratic” empire.
Read more...‘Dangerous Union-Busting’: Trump Rescinds Collective Bargaining for Air Safety Union
The Trump administration tries to rip up the TSA union contract in move that’s bad news for workers across the country.
Read more...How Trump’s $2B Court Battle Over Foreign Aid Could Reshape Executive Authority
Why the Trump effort to cut USAID funding without following Congressional requirements is a key front in the battle over Presidential power
Read more...How Scientists Can Adapt to a New Normal
In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
Read more...Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
This week’s science/medicine Coffee Break: Alzheimers, a Covid vesicle spray? mask decision rules, the science funding/pipeline train wreck.
Read more...Trump Presents the Gravest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History
Cuts to the Social Security Administration are cuts to Social Security. Raise hell with your Congresscritters about this looting
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