Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.
The death certificate for Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died from a fentanyl overdose. His mother, Sandra Bagwell, says that is wrong. On an April…
Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation | naked capitalism
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is a wide-ranging post which discusses many of the topics that Hudson has examined over time, including some of the reasons they…
Ukraine Could Deploy F-16s as Soon as July, but Only a Few
The jets are ready, and the flight instructors are waiting, at a new training center in Romania that was created to teach Ukraine’s pilots to fly the F-16 warplane. But…
Navigating Israeli Restrictions, Many Palestinians Find It Hard to Reach Al Aqsa
As the sermon about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan sounded over the speakers from Al Aqsa Mosque, 13-year-old Yousef al-Sideeq sat on a bench outside the compound’s gates. “Most…
Oscars’ In Memoriam Segment Honors Aleksei Navalny, Among Film Greats
The in memoriam segment at the Academy Awards opened not with a Hollywood star, but with a clip of Aleksei A. Navalny from “Navalny,” the Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about the…
Ukrainian Director Says He’d Rather Have No Oscar and No War
The Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov used his acceptance speech for “20 Days in Mariupol,” which won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday, to give an emotional denunciation of…
Two Months After Surgery, Palace Releases a Photo of Catherine
Nearly two months after undergoing abdominal surgery, Catherine, the princess of Wales, appeared in an official photograph, released on Sunday by Kensington Palace to mark Mother’s Day in Britain. Catherine,…
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time | naked capitalism
Lambert here: As the cliché has it, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I’m tempted, these days, to add, “except more stupidly.” Then again, whether…
Thousands of pregnant women in Gaza suffer from malnutrition, health authorities say.
When Wafaa al-Kurd was nearly due to give birth, she said, she weighed less than she did before becoming pregnant and was surviving on rice and artificial juice. She gave…
Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine
President Biden was standing in an Upper East Side townhouse owned by the businessman James Murdoch, the rebellious scion of the media empire, surrounded by liberal New York Democrats who…