China To Accelerate The Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants

A massive rally was held in Tehran on Monday in support of Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the opening attacks of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. The massive turnout for the younger Khamenei, who also lost his […]

We Want One Solution, But One Solution Can't Solve Our Polycrisis Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, Whatever the problem, our minds seek one solution--preferably a simple one--to escape the trackless wilderness of complex, inter-connected problems. Problem-solving boils down to identifying the key problem and finding a fix that’s easy to understand and straightforward to apply. Our minds rebel when confronted with polycrisis, a knotted mess of inter-connected problems, and so we apply solutions we already have in hand. As I explained in previous Musings, this leads us to modify our...

Approaching the one year anniversary of the massacre of Alawite civilians by a faction including government forces, more details are emerging about what happened to civilians, particularly women, caught up in this violence. An investigation by the BBC looked into reports of Alawite women who were abducted from the Alawite homelands in Syria’s coastal northwest […]