Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Links 4/29/2025

 

at 4/29/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— Chokepoint Crazy: The U.S. Bombs Both Sides of Gulf of Aden and Considers Setting Up Shop in Somaliland

 

at 4/29/25 4:00am

Bombs fall on Yemen. Bombs fall on Somalia. The US considers recognizing Somaliland in desperate attempt to dominate Red Sea. 

[Category: Africa, China, Globalization, Middle East]

— What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?

 

at 4/29/25 3:00am

Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon. 

[Category: Politics, Social policy, Social values]

— Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?

 

at 4/29/25 2:00am

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.

[Category: Africa, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization]

— Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Dying Western Empire

 

at 4/28/25 12:00pm

The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.

[Category: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Europe]

— Links 4/28/2025

 

at 4/28/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way 

 

at 4/28/25 3:00am

Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions

[Category: China, Energy markets, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Middle East, Russia]

— Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support

 

at 4/28/25 2:00am

More than 300 million people rely on the Indus River Basin for their survival. The treaty governing its use is falling apart.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, India]

— Links 4/27/2025

 

at 4/27/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) Run Time: 1h 55m

 

at 4/27/25 4:30am

The Sunday Morning Movies presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) A fine example of a Spaghetti Western in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

[Category: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie]

— ‘We Deserve to Breathe Clean Air’: Southwest Memphians Take On Elon Musk’s xAI

 

at 4/27/25 3:00am

Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.

[Category: Environment, Global warming, Social values, Technology and innovation]

— Links 4/26/2025

 

at 4/26/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

 

at 4/25/25 10:45pm

What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes]

— Scholars Under Fire

 

at 4/25/25 10:21pm

An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.

[Category: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social policy]

— Coffee Break: The Current State of Science During Trump v.2.0 Plus One Signal Advance

 

at 4/25/25 12:00pm

As someone who has spent most of his working life as a scientific worker and later as an academic scientist, graduate supervisor, teacher, grant reviewer, and administrator, the current devastation being visited upon my colleagues and their institutions is sickening.  I have never thought my work was more useful or more important than anyone else’s.  []

[Category: Coffee Break, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method, Social policy]

— As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’

 

at 4/25/25 7:55am

How internet archives are thwarting the reactionary campaign to rewrite history and censor inconvenient information and ideas.

[Category: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values]

— Links 4/25/2025

 

at 4/25/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— One of UK’s Largest (and Oldest) High Street Retailers Suffers Week of Chaos After “Cyber Incident”

 

at 4/25/25 4:45am

"Back to Normal"... Erm, Not Quite.

[Category: Guest Post]

— As Trump Administration Considers Retreat on Tariffs, Will It Resort to Usual US Fallback Option? 

 

at 4/25/25 4:00am

Washington's focus on global chokepoints could see extra attention in wake of tariffs debacle.

[Category: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Infrastructure]

— How the American Economy Is Rigged to Serve the Rich, and Why Tariffs Won’t Change That

 

at 4/24/25 11:14pm

The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded by the rich.

[Category: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Hedge funds, Income disparity, Investment management, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class]

— Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire

 

at 4/24/25 7:55am

A Trump advisor argues, in all seriousness, that other countries should help bear the cost of US empire because it confers so many benefits on them.

[Category: Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Garrulous insolence, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Ridiculously obvious scams]

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