Yves here. We’ll take some of the fun out of using this article as a reader critical thinking exercise by pointing out the obvious up front. This piece is garbage…
Yves here. The article below describes how critical services in the US, such as elevators and public water systems, are often so far behind in required maintenance that, for instance,…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got a late start today. I’ll make it up tomorrow, I swear! –lambert Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Long Branch…
We warned from the outset that Russia might well win the war in Ukraine and lose the peace. In fact, the odds are rising that there will be no peace,…
There are once again proclamations that the political tide in Europe is turning against the empire, part of an anti-globalist wave toppling governments in Austria and Germany, and even reaching…
A knowledgeable reader took a look at a court filing on the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains Lightning Complex Fire. The implication for Los Angeles rebuilding its burned out neighborhoods are…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s…
Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again New Scientist California Burning Los Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and images Guardian NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory evacuated due to LA…
Lambert here: Then lower the standards. Problem solved. By Darius Tahir, Correspondent, who is based in Washington, D.C., and reports on health technology with an eye toward how it helps…
Yves here. Michael Hudson kindly provided an article to distill and extend some of his recent YouTube discussions about where US imperialism and the dollar are headed. Hudson’s makes clear…