Could there be a tiny silver lining in the Israel genocide in Gaza?
Monday, July 14, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/30/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics, Trump convicted on all 34 counts, yellow waders for Merchan’s jury instructions, H5N1 breakout scenario, “Decolonize the gut!”, “They were careless people….” ~
Global South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations’ Elite-Serving Policies
The World Bank projects the worst slowdown in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to Western powers’ contractionary policies
Preparing for Collapse: Why the Focus on Climate/Energy Sustainability Is Destructive
Energy and climate sustainability are hopium. However, it may be possible to preserve a semblance of our techno-driven civilization.
Michael Hudson: Modern (Mis)interpretations of Ancient Debt Cancellation
Modern economists misrepresent how ancient debt cancellation worked, forcing it into contemporary neoliberal /creditor rights frameworks
Status of Banks’ Unrealized Losses in Q1: Worsened After Brief Rate-Cut-Mania Relief
US banks are still sitting on losses, with Fed relief nowhere in sight.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; jury deliberations begin in Judge Merchan’s court, Covid immune dysregulation, the worst jobs at Disney, the world’s oldest living being ~
Private Equity Seeks to Foist Companies It Can’t Sell on Employees
Oh noes! Private equity is finding it hard to find buyers for all those deals it bought when interest rates were low!
The West Foments Chaos in the Caucasus
Armenia’s pivot to the West unravels. Regime change efforts in Georgia. Türkiye looks to criminalize working for “foreign interests.”
The Popski Syndrome – Allied Defeat Turns into Ukraine Battlefield Fantasies
Ukraine, with certain Western help, has engaged in even more provocative stunts as some NATO leaders threaten escalation.
Repress U., Class of 2024: How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven More Steps
The apparatus behind the explosion of police crackdowns against campus anti-Gaza-genocide protests has been very long in the making.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics, Google’s internal search documentation leaked (!), closing arguments begin in the Bragg/Merchan trial, bookcases as a superb user interface ~
“It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes”
An, erm, novel exercise to present Americans as always on board with good-thinking values like opposing autocratic players.
