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at 2/12/26 4:55am- — Bloomberg’s $108 Oil as Worst Case Iran War Scenario: Too Optimistic?
- at 2/12/26 4:52amA detailed Bloomberg report lays out different scenarios for oil prices if Iran attacks. Is its forecast of a worst case of $108 a barrel too cheery?
- — Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
- at 2/12/26 1:05amMedea Benjamin provides a gripping on-the-ground report of how conditions in Cuba are deteriorating due to the US oil blockage.
- — Satyajit Das: On Cinema – Antonioni’s Mysteries
- at 2/12/26 12:14amA look at the major works of Michelangelo Antonioni and how he influenced film-making.
- — Coffee Break: Crisis of Credibility Edition
- at 2/11/26 12:00pmThe crisis of credibility faced by Western elites as they try and fail to patch over the bursting abscess that is the Epstein files release heralds something much more profound: potential systemic collapse.
- — Costs of Device-Reliant Parenting: Kids Deficient in Empathy and Storytelling Skills, Can’t Read, Show Declining Cognitive Performance
- at 2/11/26 7:58amAnother disconcerting report on the harm done to kids by device and tech heavy parenting
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- — Health and Wellbeing in the Age of Diagnosis
- at 2/11/26 4:45amIn this modern world, sometimes it seems that everyone has “something,” and many of these conditions are relatively “new” and their incidence is increasing. Leading diagnoses from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), include ADHD, autism, depression, and anxiety. Conditions that have become more common in recent years that have no primary []
- — Reuters Finds AI-Using Surgery Devices Harmed Patients; Nature Magazine and Reuters Find Medical Chatbots Not Beating Patients’ Own Internet Sleuthing
- at 2/11/26 3:30amMore reasons to be concerned about the aggressive implementation of AI in medicine.
- — The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain
- at 2/11/26 2:16amA well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
- — Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Incredible Shrinking “Most Powerful Military in History”
- at 2/10/26 12:00pmThe United States is not merely losing military capacity—it is losing the ability to recognize what it no longer has. As political posture outruns material readiness, allies and adversaries are conditioned to expect reserves of power that do not exist. The result is systematic risk mispricing, easier escalation, and a growing risk of military defeat.
- — ‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
- at 2/10/26 7:59amThe affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
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- — The Ultimate Insult: As Washington Starves Cuba of Energy (And Most Everything Else), It Offers $6 Million in Humanitarian Aid
- at 2/10/26 4:45amThe US State Department insists that US restrictions on oil in Cuba are not amplifying the need for humanitarian aid there.
- — America’s Real Health Crisis? Inequality— and a Generation Pays
- at 2/10/26 3:31amRaw milk won’t cut it. Even being rich won’t save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality
- — The European Veal Pen: How the US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia & Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control of Europe
- at 2/10/26 2:46amCan Europe free itself from its capture by the US, which looked like a dandy idea until the US became an openly predatory hegemon?
- — Coffee Break: Trump’s Stochastic Election Attacks, AIPAC Misfire
- at 2/9/26 12:00pmIn 2026, U.S. politics is definied by two trends: Democrats surging in special elections and Trump attacking the very idea of elections.
- — Journalism May Be Too Slow To Remain Credible Once Events Are Filtered Through Social Media
- at 2/9/26 7:55amSome hand-wringing, as well as blame shifting, as to why social media and independent sites are eating the lunches of mainstream media.
- — Iran War Watch: US Moves Towards Attack Footing Despite Questionable Odds of Success
- at 2/9/26 5:50amOn the Iran front, the US is taking steps that do not look like mere posturing. Many experts, including ones in Iran, think war is nigh.
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- — An Iranian Architecture Appreciation Post
- at 2/9/26 4:00amSanctions have spurred “creative destruction” in Iran where brickwork draws on the past to create shade, natural light, and ventilation.
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