Why Indians are fleeing around the world to US
Facing danger at home, a record number of Indian migrants have crossed from Mexico into the US.
Links 10/10/2022 | naked capitalism
Lambert and I, and many readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational environment ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of war — both real…
EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eight Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target? | naked capitalism
Frustrated with their inability to sink the Russian economy as sanctions blowback continues to bite the so-called collective West, the US and EU have been trying to find new ways…
Bucking Convention to Track the Upside of Invasive Species | naked capitalism
By Asher Elbein, a writer based in Austin, Texas. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, the Texas Observer, and The Bitter Southerner. Originally published at Undark. A little…
Russian Army Turning Out the Lights: US Losing Electricity War in Ukraine | naked capitalism
Yves here. John Helmer’s sources contend that Russia has been taking out more of Ukraine’s electricity generating capacity than is widely acknowledged and is doing what amounts to reconnaissance in…
AP journalist’s truth comes out of the closet
As a journalist, his job is to report about the truth. But personally, for many years, he had been purposely hiding it to protect himself. Now 57, he is still…
From fringe to front row: Rep. Greene rises in GOP
Once shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is being welcomed by House Republicans into the fold, and is poised to become an influential…
How Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery
In the 1900s, an Afro-Cuban skilled worker named Eleno Lino was on the hunt for education. Lino sought help far from the Caribbean island that had abolished slavery a little…
Locals rally to salvage ‘Mexican caviar’
In a shallow lake on the outskirts of Mexico City, a handful of farmers still harvest the eggs of an evasive fingertip-size water bug in a bid to keep alive…
In states where abortion is now outlawed, students ramp up activism
VERMILLION, S.D. — The students looked as if they could be getting ready for a Harry Styles concert, sprawled out across the carpet in the University of South Dakota’s student center.…