After eight extensive posts about the Ontario electricity sector, I am expanding my geographic coverage to look at the electricity sectors in selected OECD countries. My focus will be on the historical and relative performance of each country’s sector with respect to decarbonization and prices. As in the case of Ontario, whole volumes could and have been written about each [...]
Europe
Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments. HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS –– The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green agricultural pasture. The road and rail infrastructure are near-flawless. You could search for weeks without finding a pothole. It is one of the most expensive countries […]
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Why Ukraine may be under even more pressure than Russia to Do Something when the ground finally freezes in Ukraine.
Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
A piece about NATO's recent noises re Ukraine sadly reveals how supposedly non-captured, well-meaning activists have lost the plot.
Is Ukraine's spin getting threadbare?
Emma De Souza reports on how countries are tackling the rise in misinformation through the legal and education systems
The US has had to deal with a home-grown attempted coup for the past two...
Between dodging viruses and pondering fascism and climate disasters, I have been re-reading a truly uplifting book which I hadn't visited for many years. It's the masterpiece of the French historian Marc Bloch, Feudal Society, first published in 1940. I have a 2-volume paperback of the English translation, which I bought as a student for the terrifying price of 3 dollars and 60 cents.
It's social history or historical sociology, whichever you like. Bloch set himself the austere task of anatomizing a whole society, tracing the basic relationships that made it a distinct social formation. But it is also full-blooded history, concerned with the conditions that brought this society into being, its attitudes, its divisions, its conflicts, its laws; with how it survived in western Europe for five hundred years or so, and how it changed.
It can't be said often enough how much damage Merkel did by using Minsk as a clever ploy to hurt Russia and worse now admitting to it.