PODCAST: DHP Villains: Woodrow Wilson, Part 10

AI Boom And European Bond Markets: A Deep Dive Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The “credit pump” could rightfully claim its place as a symbolic flag of the European Union. With virtually unlimited access to the bond market, politics magically transforms an inexhaustible credit stream into political maneuvers and ideological wizardry. Through this manipulation of money, processes and institutions are transplanted into the real world that, under normal circumstances, could never have surpassed the fantasies and limits of political ideology. Wind turbines in forests, fully electric cargo bikes in an industrial nation that...

Trump's Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality Authored by Andrew Topf via oilprice.com, Last week US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela's oil sales “indefinitely”. Decrying the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, including that the South American country now pumps a fraction of what it used to, Trump said, “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go...

The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights is warning that Israel’s deliberate attacks on civilian targets across Lebanon may amount to war crimes, because international law demands a distinction between military and civilian targets. Since Israel started its new war against Lebanon on March 2, at least 912 people have been killed, […]