Why Psalm 23 Gives Me the Creeps | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. You probably know Psalm 23. It goes like this: 1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie…
Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels | naked capitalism
Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails…
“Bidenomics” Has No Answer for Eviction Crisis – Or Much Else | naked capitalism
The Biden administration continues to insist that the economy is strong and its efforts are improving the situation. So, what is in its most recent efforts announced on Wednesday? From…
Hard Questions if Biden’s Approval Doesn’t Follow Economy’s Rise
Doesn’t it feel as if everything’s breaking President Biden’s way lately? His chief rival — whom Mr. Biden already beat in 2020 and whom Democrats, in a sense, beat again…
With Hollywood on Strike, a Bright Spot in New York’s Economy Goes Dark
By day, Ryan Quinlan handles the desk lamps, sconces and chandeliers that appear in films and television shows. At night, he rents out props from his Brooklyn warehouse, like an…
Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group | naked capitalism
By Phoebe Cooke, senior reporter at DeSmog. She joined the organization in 2020 to investigate forest-based carbon offsets, and now focuses on investigating false solutions to the climate crisis, including…
If MRSA Is Airborne, then CDC Guidance on “Enhanced Barrier Precautions” in Nursing Homes Is Wrong (and Lethal) | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I put this article from Kevin Kavanaugh, “Pandemic Strategies Are Inadequate To Assure Public Safety,” in Links yesterday, and in what I will struggle to…
Links 7/20/2023 | naked capitalism
Rare Fossil May Show a Small Mammal Attacking a Dinosaur Smithsonian. Encouraging! The Santiago Boys Evgeny Morozov. “A wild tale of how Allende’s engineers and a British management consultant dared…
‘Baked tnto the Frameworks’: Archeologist Reveals ‘3 Pervasive Myths’ That Blind Us to the Past | naked capitalism
By Gary M. Feinman, an archaeologist and the MacArthur curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Cross-posted from Alternet. The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border,…
John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick Are Zelensky PR To Beat NATO’s Christmas Deadline | naked capitalism
Lambert here: Musical interlude: [embedded content] By John Helmer, the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single…