Lessons in Western Self-sabotage from the Ukraine War by Seymour M Hersh “Harold Pinter (photograph)” by Beaton, Cecil is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The British playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter was anearly critic of the Bush administration’s…

So long as Russia and China remain the region’s dominant political andeconomic powers, the Central Asian heartland will remain a US and EUtarget for threats, bribes, and color revolutions. by Pepe Escobar https://new.thecradle.co (August 18 2023) http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/0c24f7fa-3ddc-11ee-9c9d-00163e02c055.jpeg Photo Credit: The Cradle…

What a 2005 Bestseller Tells Us About Climate Change and Human Survival by Michael T Klare https://tomdispatch.com (August 17 2023) In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted…

(an alternative view) by Iain Davis https://off-guardian.org (August 08 2023) In the UK, we all know that this summer has been rubbish. We had a fewweeks of glorious sunshine in June and since then it’s been bloodymiserable. It’s been cold, wet…

Trying to move production from China is much harder than manycompanies and governments think. by James Crabtree https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2F552bde6f-ab2d-4b6f-b631-ce2a1471d0b9.jpg?dpr=2&fit=scale-down&quality=medium&source=next&width=700French president Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen meetXi Jinping in Beijing. The European Commission president has said theEU should “de-risk”, not…

Ah, Scandinavians. They know a thing or two about living long and prospering: Their lifestyle is considered one of the healthiest and happiest in the world, and their cities keep being voted among the most livable. There is a method to…

rom Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net (August 05 2023) America’s largest hospital chain has an algorithmic death panel: HCA’sadministrators berate doctors over “missed hospice opportunities”. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs Businesspeople understand the risks of competition, which is why theyseek to extinguish it. The harder it is…

The New York Times called it a “mystery”, but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret – until now by Seymour Hersh https://seymourhersh.substack.com(February 08 2023) https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04729135-33de-4bb1-8fd5-17e9b7f0c8fe_3114x1742.png The US Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found…

Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response by Tyler Durden https://www.zerohedge.com (February 09 2023) Famed journalist and Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh, who for decades was a star reporter writing for The New York Times and New Yorker, on Wednesday published…

Scott Ritter calls Hersh’s Nord Stream article “his most important work ever” by Scott Ritter https://www.scottritterextra.com (February 18 2023) In the Christian faith, God comes in the form of three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Together, these three beings…