What If the World Cannot Save the World from Climate Change? | naked capitalism
Yves here. This sort of well-meaning piece makes me want to tear out my hair. Yes, dealing with climate change is ultimately a governance problem, but not in the way…
Breached Dam, Incineration of Soil Flood East Palestine With Fresh Fears of Toxins | naked capitalism
Conor here: In fairness, the Ohio EPA says everything is completely under control. From the Highland County Press: According to the Ohio EPA, the contractor created a depression in the…
Secret Power and the Persecution of Julian Assange | naked capitalism
Yves here. The UK (and US) have managed to disappear Julian Assange just as effectively as Gitmo detainees. Yet those terror suspects, who overwhelmingly were low level individuals who happened…
Rail Workers Warn Safety Bill Loopholes Are Big Enough to ‘Run a Freight Train Through’ | naked capitalism
Yves here. Perhaps I don’t have the right media diet, but the East Palestine toxic explosion appears to have moved out of prime news coverage awfully quickly. And before you…
New York Fed Identifies a New Way Dollar Hegemony Is Not Good for Emerging Economies and Other Growing Things | naked capitalism
Readers may question why the New York Fed would publish a research paper that described a new mechanism by which the US caring only about the effects of its monetary…
Links 3/3/2023 | naked capitalism
Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? Scientific American All the recessions that didn’t happen Yahoo News This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA…
Tesla’s Newly Announced “Gigafactory” in Northern Mexico Already Has a Serious Problem: Water Scarcity | naked capitalism
The nearshoring trend is triggering a significant influx of global companies, including Tesla and many of its suppliers, to Northern Mexico, particularly the state of Nuevo León. But is there…
Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan | naked capitalism
Yves here. CODEPINK is attempting to raise the alarms over US warmongering, now with China. CODEPINK sent two protestors to the newly-formed China-bashing Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between…
At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan | naked capitalism
Yves here. At the risk of overloading on a nevertheless important topic, we’re featuring two complimentary posts on China, the first below, on the prospects of war over Taiwan. The…
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/2/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I have a lot more to cover on Covid, including Corsi-Rosenthal boxes and some horrid news on Carl Heneghan, the Cochrane study’s unlisted…