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Coffee Break: Fossil Fuels and Health, EPA, AI that Works, and a Belated Retraction

Part the First: The Healthcare Costs of Fossil Fuels.  One would think this is a no-brainer.  Nevertheless, the Current Administration has its stone cold heart

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Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse | naked capitalism

Yves here. I am generally not keen about disagreeing fundamentally with the author of an article, but here I feel compelled to. Thomas Neuburger attempts

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Gaza as a Test of America’s Tolerance for Death and Destruction

The U.S. military legal establishment has big plans to use Gaza as a model for future large scale conflicts, including with China. As Colombian President

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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas

Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction: poison gas. I will describe

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The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages

Yves here. The post below by Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back uses a one-time church, still supervised by a pastor, now a provider of free

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Links 7/20/2025 | naked capitalism

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Links 7/19/2025 | naked capitalism

Pollinators send out good vibrations — and plants respond sweetly Science News (Dr. Kevin) Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? BBC

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Coffee Break: Garden of Healing, Good News on PEPFAR, Life in Biotech, and Our American Israel

Part the First: Pharmacopeia.  Who doesn’t love a garden?  It sometimes seems that all drugs come from plants, initially.  My first biology teachers claimed they

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Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence

Yves here. This post makes an extremely useful observation, even though it is a bit more in economese than is ideal, despite it being aimed