Why the United States Needs NATO – 3 Things to Know | naked capitalism
Yves here. I thought readers might enjoy a bit of sport to mix up their informational diet a bit. Behold this piece on the virtues of NATO from the US…
Their Asylum Case Seems Strong. But Instead of Hope, They Feel Despair.
On the last day of 2023, Thierno Sadou Barry walked from his homeless shelter near Times Square to Harlem, looking to buy inexpensive suitcases he could fill up with all…
Wife, Protector and Now Political Heir: Yulia Navalnaya Rallies Russians
It was August 2020, and Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Russia’s most famous opposition leader, was striding through the battered, gloomy hallways of a provincial Russian hospital, looking for the…
4 Ways Autocrats Have Used Interpol to Harass Faraway Enemies
Interpol is the world’s largest police organization. It serves as a powerful bulletin board that governments and law enforcement agencies use to team up to pursue fugitives across the globe.…
Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse Interpol, Despite Years of Fixes
For years, strongmen and autocrats had a novel weapon in their hunt for political enemies. They used Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, to reach across borders and grab them…
Trump Breaks Silence on Navalny Death, but Doesn’t Condemn Putin
Days after the death of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny was first reported, Donald J. Trump broke his silence in a social media post on Monday that barely…
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Kinglet Manakin, PE da Serra do Conduru, Bahia, Brazil. Call; Non-vocal; Song.: Politics “So many of the social reactions that…
How Shaved Ice Took Over the Dessert Menu
Whether you know it as Japanese kakigori, Korean patbingsu, Hawaiian shave ice, Italian granita, Indian ice gola or the American snow cone, a mound of shaved ice drenched in syrup…
Officers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding.
Driving home from work on the day her life changed forever, Nicole McClure could feel her feet tingling and her sense of direction faltering. Then she noticed colorful lights illuminating…
Opinion | Restoring the Past Won’t Liberate Palestine
Amid the graphic images, fierce polemics and endless media criticism that have dominated my social media feeds since the war in Gaza began late last year, I noticed a seemingly…