The timing of a Blinken interview and a RAND paper release points to elite splits over Ukraine. Sadly the warmongers are still in charge.
Doomsday scenarios
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Blinken offers a hollow set of concessions via the Washington Post. What is the real message?
Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts.
Washington’s favorite foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, undermines Scholz again and helps the US back the chancellor into a corner on Leopard tanks.
Duma Speaker warns of powerful retaliation for weapons supplies to Kiev for attacks on Russia.
The World Economic Forum, which concluded on Friday, provides clues as to why European leaders would sacrifice their national economies for the war in Ukraine.
Quelle surprise! Change on crucial issues of climate and inequality is unlikely to emerge from the World Economic Forum.
It isn't just that time is generally on Russia's side. Russia likely needs to grind on and on to achieve its ultimate aim, security.
Middle income countries are unwilling to put groaf on hold to blunt climate change...and they do have a point given the lack of serious plans