Yves here. You are getting an extra portion of Michael Hudson due to his having allowed us to post his intriguing and extremely informative introduction to Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics. Below is his latest interview with Nima...
It appears Palestinians in Gaza are not dying quickly enough to satisfy the real estate development timetables of some Israelis. So eight members of the Knesset sent a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu and Chair of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee...
‘A true miracle’: 7-year-old boy survives 5 days in lion-infested game park in Zimbabwe USA Today The Year of the Wolves Montana Free Press Plants and trees are able to predict volcano eruptions Earth.com How Would Fearmongers and Doomers Invest...
There are plenty of theories of what brought down Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 on Christmas Day. The plane, which was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in the Russian region of Chechnya, ran into trouble over Russia and...
Conor here: Maybe the NGOs aren’t going to save us. By Aaron Kirshenbaum, CODEPINK’s War is Not Green campaigner and East Coast regional organizer. Cross posted from Common Dreams. On December 15, many people in Syria felt the earthquake. Seismic...
If you liked Michael Hudson’s introduction to Friedrich Schurtz’s book, the Origins of Money, this is a companion introduction dealing more with technology and urbanization than with money. Giorgio Buccellati is the archeologist who discovered major Syrian cities. I found...
In the comments to my post, India has Too Few Tourists, many people worried about the food, the touts and the poverty. Many of these comments are mistaken or apply only if you are traveling to India on the cheap...
2025 Bug of the Year Nominees New Zealand Bug of the Year Where the next financial crisis could emerge FT Climate Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in...
Yves here. There are so many hot-button areas where Team Trump is planning big changes, such as immigration, tariffs, and the Ukraine conflict, that there are many other key areas on the new Administration’s target list that are not getting...
Top of my list: Source: Kalshi, accessed 1/3/2025. Would this be bad news? Well, yes. But worse yet given the incoming administration. For proof, I have but one word: “bleach”. Second: Source: Kalshi, accessed 1/3/2025. For comparison, the June 2024...
