Plastic mulch pollution may linger for centuries
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Plastic Mulch Promised Better Harvests. It May Be Hurting the Soil Instead.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:01 am | 18 Comments »
Links 6/4/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 184 Comments »
MAHA Influencers, the Future of Public Health, and Longings for Immortality
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report has dropped! The original document included phantom (hallucinated?) references, but those have been fixed apparently. Or maybe not. A graduate student who wrote a review with the same defects would get a flat “F”, but this does not seem to matter. Could AI (Algorithmic Intelligence) have had anything […]
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 6:54 am | 26 Comments »
Rob Urie: What Do the Western Drone Attacks Mean for US – Russia Relations?
On Ukraine’s recent escalations: “Westerners sanguine about the prospect of nuclear war are fools.”
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Risk and risk management, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 67 Comments »
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Continues Assault on Obamacare
Rather than end Obamacare, which would be politically costly, the Trump Administration is working to hollow it out.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:05 am | 5 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ukraine War Report
I have followed the war in Ukraine closely since 2022, and now that the war seems to be heading toward a conclusion, I would like to offer some observations. The War Was Planned and Guided by Western Governments Recent revelations have ended the pretense that Ukraine has been directing its war against Russia independently with […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 54 Comments »
‘Another Aid Massacre’: Israeli Military Kills Dozens More Near Privatized Gaza Food Site
Yet another Israel genocide strategy: killing Gazans at aid distribution sites.
Topics: Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:15 am | 21 Comments »
Links 6/3/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 134 Comments »
Larry Wilkerson: “We’re Looking at Nuclear War”
Larry Wilkerson: The deep US involvement in the Ukraine drone attacks on Russia means we are on a path to nuclear war.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:57 am | 199 Comments »
Iron Rivers Everywhere: How US Arms Smuggling Is Fuelling Violence in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
Even US-aligned governments in the region are beginning to ask, somewhat naively, which side the US is on in the war on guns, begging the question: which war?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 8 Comments »
Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Yet Another Rescue Coming
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Private equity, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 14 Comments »
“Germany Steps Up to Replace ‘Unreliable’ US as Guarantor of European Security”
More evidence that European pols and pundits, or at least the mainstream sort, are losing their minds as Russia gains ground in Ukraine.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 78 Comments »
Links 6/2/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 200 Comments »
‘Freedom Cities’ and Our Tech Overlords’ Visions for the Future
Examining the techno-monarchists’ plans for a United American Emirates.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 36 Comments »
Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025. His Ties Go Back Years
Quelle surprise! Elon Musk was long a Project 2025-type-program enthusiast and became its lead promoter and implementer.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 6 Comments »