In the UK, Amazon has begun buying power directly from wind farms in Scotland. Maritime Executive reports: Most offshore wind farms sell their electricity to a utility. Others are owned by a utility and provide the power to their own grid. A small number find a different way to market by selling some of the […]
Is China’s Growth Engine Broken?
At Foreign Policy, Howard W. French discusses the changing sentiment among China analysts who now believe that the country’s growth engine may be broken. He writes: Herd sentiment among pundits and others who analyze the direction of Chinese affairs has always been subject to sudden shifts. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, China was […]
Will Biden Repeat His Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal in Syria?
In Foreign Policy, Charles Lister warns against a plan currently percolating in the Biden administration to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. While the editors of these pages encourage pulling American forces out of more countries in the Middle East and elsewhere, doing so in the failed fashion Biden exhibited in Afghanistan would be an embarrassing […]
Could 2024 Bring Even More War?
The last two years have been filled with violent war and conflict. Foreign Policy explains that it could get even worse in 2024: Earlier this week, Foreign Policy featured 10 conflicts to watch in 2024. Here, we are focusing on those international disputes that have been flying under the radar but could emerge as full-blown conflicts in the […]
Meet Brazil’s “Buffalo Soldiers”
Samantha Pearson of The Wall Street Journal reports that police in Soure, Brazil, saddle up and patrol on horned buffalo, which have an unusually robust presence on the island. Pearson writes: Brazil’s military police already have a reputation as one of the toughest combat forces on the planet. But the battalion on Marajó Island at […]
Argentina Vindicates Libertarians on Rent Control
According to libertarian economic theory, the implementation of rent controls reduces the supply of housing and ultimately increases its costs. In Argentina, Javier Milei’s reforms are proving just that. Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute explains: In his ascent to Argentina’s presidency, Javier Milei was distinguished not just by his libertarian ideology but also for […]
Turns Out, Robots Need Human Help
The robot takeover isn’t going as smoothly as planned. It turns out that sometimes robots need guidance just like humans. Not everything can be automated, yet anyway. Liz Young explains in The Wall Street Journal: Caroline Rutenberg got an alert one day that one of her charges needed help at the Amazon.com warehouse where she works […]
Iran’s Proxy Wars
The Wall Street Journal reports on Iran’s efforts to use proxies to fight American and Israeli influence in the Middle East: Weeks after Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s deadly attack on Oct. 7, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei convened a meeting of militia leaders across an alliance Tehran calls “the axis of resistance.” The […]
Turkey Gets Its Pound of Flesh for Sweden’s NATO Approval
After much wrangling, Turkey has secured everything it could from its agreement to Sweden’s accession to NATO membership. In Foreign Policy, Reuben Silverman discusses Turkey’s long history of transactional behavior toward NATO. He writes: This week, Turkey’s parliament finally approved Sweden’s bid for NATO membership, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swiftly ratified the measure. […]
Is America Covering Up an Illegal Occupation?
In a recent email from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Executive Director, Daniel McAdams outlines recent violence on the Syrian/Jordanian border and the potential that America is illegally occupying a portion of Syria. He writes: Early Sunday morning, local time, a drone successfully struck a US military facility on the Iraq/Syria/Jordan border. […]
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