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  • Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2

    In the first part of this conversation, Claude and I agreed that there is merit in the idea that the history of recent wars reveals a US military strategy designed not for victory, but to engineer lasting disorder. So long as potential rivals live in a state of confusion, the traditional hegemon can maintain its… Continue reading Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2 The post Has the US Invented the Pyrrhic War? Part 2 appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained

    Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with consultant Erik Geurts about Peru’s deepening political instability, a crisis that has seen eight presidents come and go in just a decade. What appears at first glance to be a series of individual scandals reveals something more structural: a political system in which Congress has learned… Continue reading FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained The post FO Talks: Eight Presidents in Ten Years — Peru’s Political Chaos Explained appeared first on Fair Observer.

  • The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation

    Financial misinformation rarely looks like a scam at first. It looks like confidence. It looks like a clean chart, a calm voice and a promise that the hard part of investing has finally been made simple. That is why it spreads. A teenager watches a video on “beating inflation” with a few crypto tokens. A… Continue reading The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation The post The Hidden Tax of Financial Misinformation appeared first on Fair Observer.

Anthropocene

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Black Agenda Report

    The Guardian

      The Marshall Project

      Aeon

      • The city that wasted nothing

        Edo, modern Tokyo, transformed from a city near ecological collapse to a thriving epicentre by creating a circular economy- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon

      Unicorn Riot

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      The Conversation

      Inter Press Service

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      Sludge

      Yale Environment 360

      • Can America’s Wolves Survive an Onslaught of Political Attacks?

        Gray wolves made an uneasy comeback in the Northern Rockies and are struggling to return to the Southwest. But legislation now working its way through Congress is being spurred by misinformation and myth, rather than science, and threatens to end wolf recovery in the U.S.Read more on E360 →

      Inside Climate News

      • Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

        A new report on global air pollution shows that the majority of the world’s population breathes unhealthy air, and climate change is making the problem worse. The report was published Tuesday by IQAir, a Swiss air monitor and purifier company that posts real-time air quality data aggregated from sensors around the world. It shows that

      • Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

        Critical negotiations about the future of the Colorado River took a two-week hiatus last month after the seven states in the basin missed a key Valentine’s Day deadline for striking a deal, New Mexico’s water negotiator said Thursday. Estevan López said talks resumed March 2, and the upper and lower basin states are using a

      Amnesty International

      Grist

      Truthout

        Labor Notes

        • In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 Years

          In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.

        The World – PRI

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