NATO is looking wobbly and many of its woes are self inflicted.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Radioactive Real Estate: Finding a Forever Home for Nuclear Waste
Castoffs from U.S. nuclear weapons get buried at one site in New Mexico. But what happens when that facility fills up?
Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims
EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts (no good news at all); Biden on Morning Joe; open processes to replacing Biden; the Enneagram ~
The Biden Donor Convention
Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
It Is Now Labour’s Turn to Expand the Piecemeal Privatisation of the UK’s National Health Service
To treat the NHS’s ills, Keir Starmer’s government is talking about bringing back Tony Blair’s health secretary, Alan Milburn, who is now in the pay of corporations with interests in the UK’s healthcare sector.
‘How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We Are Everywhere’
How Israel uses inhumane, experimental surveillance technology against Palestinians. Will this become that new normal?
EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability
EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/8/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
What Would a Russian Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
Russia has some thorny and apparently not resolved questions about its end game in Ukraine.
Nature Communications: Permaculture as a Better Alternative to Conventional Agriculture?
Permaculture is a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture.
