https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/05/war-by-another-name-sanctions-are-not-a-gentler-alternative-to-conflict.html Joshua Craze in The Baffler, with photographic collages by Wolf Böwig: The use of sanctions doubled in the decade following 2000, while their rate of success plummeted. The Global…

Alison Bentley in Nature: Six boxes of wheat seed sit in our cold store. This is the first time in a decade that my team has not been able to…

https://chinasfuture.quora.com/Chinese-video-This-is-a-financial-war-not-a-military-war Russia has its SPSF system, and China has the CIPS system as alternatives to SWIFT. The Chinese network is much larger than the Russian system. After banning the Russian…

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6902973399501811712/ Olga Kravchenko CEO @ Musemio | Forbes 30 under 30 2021 | Sky Women in Technology Scholar It’s Olga here again. People keep on asking me if my family…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-not-explain-ukraine-crisis Authored by Mike Madden via Consortium News, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who choreographed the 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically-elected government and set the current…

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/hydaspes.html For three days the rains had fallen steadily, but then the downpours ceased. So, riding through the mud with his lieutenants, he studies the enemy, formed in the distance…

Source Samuel Moyn Considers Prince Andrei, Carl von Clausewitz, and the Rules of War It would take Tolstoy some time to sound the alarm that humanitarianism could entrench war. On…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bring-all-troops-home-stop-policing-globe-and-put-end-endless-wars Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to…