Interesting links

Ukraine, Nord Stream, Iraq, the lab leak theory and much more

Hey everyone, paid subscribers are starting to trickle in — and I thank each and every one of you for helping me to continue to put out high-quality journalism — so it seems only right to start offering some paid-subscriber-only content. From now on, on a regular basis, I’ll be sending out (only to paid subscribers) recommendations on interesting articles worth reading. As part of my job, I come across hundreds of articles every week, which means I’m well positioned to recommend the best stuff being put out on all the major issues of the day, from geopolitics to economics to pandemic research. So let’s get started:

• Seymour Hersh as a new piece out on the US’s role in the bombing of Nord Stream. In short, the Biden Administration continues to conceal its responsibility for the destruction of Nord Stream, with the support of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. There’s apparently no limit to Germany’s willingness to publicly humiliate itself in order to please its American master. What we are witnessing is basically the geopolitical equivalent of a BDSM show. (Interestingly, in the sweeping joint statement issued by Putin and Xi yesterday, they call for an “objective” investigation of the Nord Stream pipeline attack under the rubric of “counter-terrorism”).

• This makes Wolfgang Streeck’s latest article an even more fascinating read. In it,