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1/04 End of the Empire: Pentagon Calls for a Coalition of the Willing to Police the Red Sea: No One Answers
End of the Empire

1/04 End of the Empire: Pentagon Calls for a Coalition of the Willing to Police the Red Sea: No One Answers

January 4, 2024February 27, 2024

End of the Empire is a once-monthly feature on all news relating to the transition from the unipolar world…

4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets
ArchivesHuman Sciences

4 Years After Discovery, the First Viking Ship Burial Found in Over 100 Years Reveals its Lost Secrets

March 17, 2023July 6, 2023

When news broke in 2018 that another Viking-Age ship burial had been found on the shores of the Oslo…

Carbon Capture Projects Severely Underperform While Mostly Helping Produce More Fossil Fuels
ArchivesEnvironment

Carbon Capture Projects Severely Underperform While Mostly Helping Produce More Fossil Fuels

September 12, 2022July 2, 2023

Story at a glance… Almost all CO2 stored underground is done parallel with natural gas extraction. These projects, according…

Svalbard Coal Mines Dismantled and the Area is Turned Back into Wilderness With an Enormous National Park
ArchivesConservation

Svalbard Coal Mines Dismantled and the Area is Turned Back into Wilderness With an Enormous National Park

June 30, 2021September 26, 2023

Norway, having ceased mining operations of coal in the Arctic in 2017, is dismantling their last mine piece by…


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July Tariff Revenues Generate a Meager One-Fourth of Deficit Spending Increase

Andy Corbley September 8, 2025

Despite year-over-year revenue from import duties growing 252% compared to July of last year, government inlays were dwarfed by…

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Israel’s Destruction of Palestinian Olive Trees: Security Meets Environmental Warfare

Suzanne Latre August 28, 2025

At dawn on Monday, Israeli military bulldozers entered the Nablus area. They began uprooting thousands of olive trees, which…

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US Has Bombed Somalia Over 50 Times This Year

Andy Corbley August 21, 2025

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab southwest of the city of Bariire in central Somalia last…

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