McGregor ‘injures mascot’ in half-time stunt
Mascots being punched by professional fighters is not “the brightest thing in the world”, UFC boss Dana White said after Conor McGregor reportedly injured the mascot for Miami Heat basketball…
Michael Travis Leake, US musician, detained in Russia
Russian state television broadcast footage from Mr Leake’s trial that showed him locked in a metal cage.
Links 6/12/2023 | naked capitalism
‘Encouraging News’: Endangered Vaquitas Hanging On in Gulf of California, Expedition Finds Eco Watch Côte d’Illusion The Baffler Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down New York Times…
Permission to Build
With its open plains and thousands of miles of wheat fields, Kansas is one of the windiest states in the U.S. That makes it a great place for turbines that…
The EU Looks to “Jungle” Sacrifice Zones to Help It Out of Energy Crisis: North Africa Edition | naked capitalism
The EU is undertaking a massive effort to relocate energy production and some heavier industry to the bloc’s periphery. It’s being done partly out of necessity after Brussels decided it…
“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?” | naked capitalism
Political scientist and econoclast Mark Blyth interviews George DeMartino about his new book which critiques economics as an often destructive endeavor. From the overview to this talk: In 1849, the…
Silvio Berlusconi, Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture, Dies at 86
He won the election anyway. For his campaign, Forza Italia sent a 127-page glossy magazine to doorsteps across Italy. Called “An Italian Story,” it offered a fairy-tale version of Mr.…
Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home
Abandoned cats and dogs roam vacant streets lined with blasted apartment buildings, rubble and crumpled cars in Shebekino, a Russian border town pounded by shelling from Ukraine. A hair salon…
WeWork Faces More Turmoil After Its Chief Executive Departs
Sandeep Mathrani was supposed to be WeWork’s savior. A real estate executive, he became the chief executive of the troubled office space company in 2020 after a failed initial public…
‘The State Killed My Brother’: Senegal in Uproar After Deadly Protests
A tailor shot in the head. A baker killed by a bullet in the chest. A geography student planning to continue his studies in Canada felled by a deadly bullet…