Following Sunday’s referendum, Venezuela’s Maduro government de facto “annexes” the oil-rich Essequibo region. Guyana calls for help from friends, including US Southern Command. Military exercises are already under way. Three…
Yves here. We reposting this Matt Taibbi new offering on what he calls the CTI Files. Because this series winds up going down many Flexian network rabbit holes, with various…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Solitary Tinamou, Santa Catarina, Brazil. “The ‘chororocada’ song, heard in the breeding season.” Well, dammit, if it’s so solitary…. (I…
Yves here. DoorDash, UberEast, and GrubHub have acted in a deplorable yet predictable manner by changing its app so as to deny deliveristas the benefit of a New-York-City mandated wage…
Readers, I rarely toot my own horn, but this kitchen sink-headlined post — CDC Director Cohen Must Reject HICPAC’s Shoddily Evidenced, Unreviewable, Statistically Invalid, Non-Performing, Conflicted, and Un-Peer-Reviewed Infection Control…
We’ve generally steered clear of debates over immigration and the so-called wall (as in better cordoning the US southern border) because they typically have a high noise-and-invective to signal ratio,…
Yves here. Even though this article discusses some interesting and even promising approaches for making plastics less environmentally destructive, it refuses to consider the question of how to reduce their…
Yves here. After so many climate initiatives, from IPCC reports to COP meetings to the Paris Accords, that have generated a lot of hot air and not much climate action,…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Highland Tinamou, Huila, Colombia. Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a…
Yves here. A new book, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, proves a thesis…