By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this will be a little shorter than usual, because I must hustle along and finish up a post on Katrina Helene. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Now with the actual birdsong, dang....
World’s oldest cheese found smeared on heads of 3,600-year-old mummies StudyFinds “We sold our house for this”: Cruise passengers ‘stranded’ in Belfast before 3-year long trip Belfast Telegraph Climate/Environment Lambert will have a separate post on Helene coming later today....
Yves here. This post gives a good overview of the indictment made against New York City Mayor Eric Adams for bribery and campaign finance abuses. It clears up a point I must confess I got wrong in reading mainstream media...
By William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch regular and a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of that institute’s forthcoming issue brief, “Inside the ICBM Lobby: Special Interests or the Public Interest?” He is...
Yves here. Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff riff on the latest US self-destructive acts and resulting increased alignment of major Global South players, and put the trajectory in historical terms. By Nima of Dialogue Works. Originally published at his channel...
With apologies to Kramer’s boss in Seinfeld. From Oren Cass’s “Trump’s Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal: Economists aren’t telling the whole truth about tariffs,” The Atlantic: Their first mistake is to consider only the costs of tariffs, and not the benefits....
The country is in the black, overall, iaccording to Friday’s release. Battleground states outlined in red. Source: BEA (27 September 2024), as edited by author. Note that battleground states, except NV, are exceeding the national growth rate of 3.0% in...
SpaceX launches rescue mission to return stranded astronauts Phys.org The lonely Lake Superior caribou and a lesson in limits The Narwhal Climate/Environment At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across the Southeast AP Aerial footage...
At the United Nations this past week, the figurehead of the US Joe Biden talked about a “remarkable sweep of history,” which was somehow not referring to a descent into a WWIII hellscape but an optimistic vision of the future...
Conor here: Let’s hope a new contract (whenever it is reached) will expire on April 30, 2028 — the day before a potential general strike. That’s because, according to WSWS, East and Gulf coast dockworkers are playing a weak hand...
