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On Cooling America Out

We've been the marks of our own long cons, all the way up

Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs | The Tyee

Build Canada’s advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series.

Britain’s Palestine failure and the collapse of the international rules-based order

Britain dithers on the sidelines instead of seizing the opportunity to address a century-old injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people

The institutional politics of Carney’s defence bank - The Hill Times

Canada’s role in NATO finance risks locking in a defence-driven political economy that will be difficult to reverse.

How Airbus took off - Works in Progress Magazine

Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere?

What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?

Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between

Circular economy in demolition: Repurposing waste to fuel new builds

Evelyn Long discusses the importance of the UK’s circular economy in demolition and how it should not only be maintained, but pushed further

Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The World Cup Got Worse On Purpose

A final seat cost £83 at the last Euros. FIFA is charging £3,119 for this tournament. Dynamic pricing, water-break ads, and two decades of the same playbook.

Five Findings From the Army’s Artillery Factory Fiasco — ProPublica

ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.

Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Is Faulty.

The former counterterrorism official’s assertion that Israel was responsible for US wars in Iraq and Syria is false, and evidence of a dangerously…