~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Friday, October 4, 2024
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.
Israeli Newspaper Confirms IDF Employed ‘Hannibal Directive’ on October 7
IDF soldiers were reportedly ordered to “turn the area around the border fence into a killing zone.”
US Fed-Induced World Stagnation Deepens Debt Distress
US and Fed bad cooking has led to weak growth the world, and by urging poor countries to borrow at once-low rates, debt distress.
Spook Scholarship: A Prominent Former CIA Analyst and Project Ukraine Backer Moonlights as a Collegiate Textbook Coauthor
Students lucky enough to be assigned the books will learn that foreign countries resisting US imperialism aren’t the only danger to “democracy,” but the American people are as well.
As New Campaign Implores Him to ‘Pass the Torch,’ Biden Rejects Calls to Drop Out
A shadowy group of Democrat insiders leads the effort to pick the party’s nominee in smoke-filled room.
Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
‘Disturbing Milestone’: Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Surpass 1,000 Since October 7
A group of aid agencies decried that no Israeli civilian or soldier has been prosecuted for any of these 1,000 attacks in the West Bank.
2:00PM Water Cooler July 5, 2004
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics: First post-debate RCP polling averages; forthcoming Biden interview; our famously free press; CDC flipflops on vax only (over the Fourth of July weekend); consciousness: we know nothing. ~
How Many People Knew About Biden? Turns Out, A Lot
How long has the cover-up about Biden’s deterioration been going on?
