Rob Urie: Biden Visits Hitler’s Bunker, Sends for a Decorator: Israel and Ukraine Edition
The US is losing power and geopolitical legitimacy by its mishandling, or one might say misguided handling, its clients Israel and Ukraine.
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UN Special Rapporteur Calls Out Walmart, Amazon, DoorDash as Creating Poverty by Not Paying Living Wages
Major companies like Walmart create poverty via obscenely low pay, most recently confirmed via a UN special rapporteur.
Read more...What Did the Houthis’ Attempted Bombing of Israel Aim to Achieve?
The Houthis are trying to mix things up, at least a little bit, in the conflict in Gaza. To what end?
Read more...PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet
More on why public private partnerships, aka PPPs, amount to private enrichment at public expense, not just governments but also users.
Read more...Iran’s Proposed Embargo Could Cause Chaos in Oil Markets
A brief look at the impact of the 1970s oil embargo, and what the effects might be if one were implemented now.
Read more...The Impossibility of Negotiated Settlements in the Gaza and Ukraine Conflicts
Although some analysts have given reasons why negotiated solutions to the wars in the Gaza and Ukraine are not in the cards, for the most part, they have also been hesitant to say that in a simple noun-verb sentence. Perhaps they hope against hope that a frame-breaking event will radically shift the current boundary conditions […]
Read more...Biden’s Weak and Patchy Executive Order “Regulating” AI
Not impressed.
Read more...Nasrallah’s Speech Confirms that “MAD” Has Been Reached Between Israel-US & the Resistance Axis
Hebollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a fiery speech on the conflict in Gaza that fell short of a call for escalation…at least right now.
Read more...Why Fossil Fuel Companies Can’t Leave Resources Stranded
A discussion of how fossil fuel companies’ imperatives and our legal regime preclude getting them to leave oil and gas in the ground.
Read more...Did People Die from Covid Because of the Power of Populist Politics?
The role of ideology in bad Covid science and its amplification.
Read more...Egypt Is Playing an Extremely High-Stakes Game in Gaza That Could End in Genocide
Egypt firmy restates its red line of not letting Gaza refugees decamp en mass into Sinai and suggests it would go to war with Israel if needed
Read more...Elongating the Fossil Fuel Era, One Trick at a Time
A mini-catalogue of strategies the fossil fuel industry is using to forestall the transition to other energy sources.
Read more...Even Rich Nations Now Worried About ISDS
Yves here. In the US, Public Citizen deserves a great deal of credit for turning policy-makers against the multinational-favoring, national-law-and-regulation-gutting “free trade agreement known as ISDS, or “investor state dispute settlement. These disputes are arbitrated by secret panels with no appeal and pro-corporate cronies acting as deciders. Public Citizen’s relentless digging got key bad facts […]
Read more...US Neocons Accidentally Act as Great Uniter in Caucasus
Attempts to use Armenia to destabilize Caucasus backfire spectacularly.
Read more...Iraq Moves Further Out of U.S.’s Influence With New Russia and China Deals
On Iraq’s preferential deal with China for oil output and projects.
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