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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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