Will Azerbaijan turning against Russia, perhaps supporting an attack on Iran, force Russia to move faster than it might otherwise in Ukraine?
Read more...The war in Gaza has “created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles . . . as a secure, modern prosperous society.”
Read more...Increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
Read more...How Russophobia has been long in the making and continued to color international relations.
Read more...Trump is fighting another war he can’t win: trying to use interest rates to counter the inflation created by his yawning fiscal deficits.
Read more...The UK’s clever scheme to enlist rabid chihuahua Estonia to harass Russia in the Baltic theater.
Read more...As Mr. Market idelivers a big raspberry in response to Trump’s big beautiful bill, remember it won’t affect the ability to keep spending
Read more...Tackling a pro-multinational development canard which looks to have made the so-called middle income trap worse.
Read more...Controlling the future by controlling the past, here by censorship of narrative-busting photos.
Read more...Michael Hudson, expanding on his seminal work Super Imperialism, chroniciles the rise and in-process decline of US financial hegemony.
Read more...A window into the thuggish efforts to sabotage Zohran Mamdani bid for New York City mayor, here by the Department of Homeland Security.
Read more...How the Roman Plebeian Council used tribal allegiances to curb the power of patricians.
Read more...Rahm Emanuel is teasing a run for President in 2028. His brother Ari, a Democratic power-broker and a Trump insider will be a problem.
Read more...It seems no idea is too stupid not to get a following. This one is to recreate Silicon Valley Bank, a standout failure.
Read more...Green energy investment goes wobbly….again.
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