That’s just how US people are raised.

No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn’t be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won’t have much flow anyway, as it’s meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

Connolly’s is an awesome bookstore.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Let’s roughly estimate it at one trillon US dollars per year.

NATO was designed to keep the Soviet Union (now Russia) down, Germany out, and the US on top.

Europeans are just USians with healthcare (for now) and a couple more remaining unions.

Double standard as usual.

US citizenship law states that a US citizen automatically loses their citizenship when they pledge allegiance to another state, become a member of government of another state, or join another state’s military as an officer or if said state is a declared enemy.

Since Israel can do no wrong in the eyes of the US state anything goes, but look at the treatment of any US person who moves abroad and becomes an important part of a non-aligned nation’s zeitgeist.

Yes. There are ninety nine people on one side of the fork in the tracks, and one hundred on the other. The track loops around after the people to the other side of the fork, so no matter which way the lever is set, one hundred ninety nine people will be crushed. Or you can pull them off the tracks and destroy the trolley.

Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.

Europe does not in general have a cult problem, but US based cults are slowly expanding into Europe to grow and take advantage of people’s general sense of a decreasing quality of life.

Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it’s a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.

I doubt it, I just found the contradiction funny. It’s just a microcosm of the international rules based order: do whatever the US says.

Just give the worker drones happy pills until they comply.

This is normal.

The 1990s in the former USSR is probably second to only the bubonic plague in terms of decreased quality of life and life expectancy during peacetime.

Shock therapy contributed to something like five million excess deaths.

How does this actually play out in practice? If we believe all the NATO bluster about their holy article 5, an attack on Netherlands would mean the rest of NATO has to come to the aid of the Dutch. So the US would come to aid the country it’s invading?

But of course it wouldn’t play out like that, as article 5 is only meant as a causus belli to attack the US’ villain of the week.

Controlling the narrative is just as (if not more) crucial for national security as aircraft carriers and troops.

Ok so they’re not allowed to use Azure OpenAI, but there’s certainly a secret Microsoft department called Thin-Blue-Line ClosedAI which provides support to cops using AI for facial recognition and pre-crime.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

From my reading Hudson’s Superimperialism is an more an extension of Lenin’s Imperialism, based on how material conditions had evolved over the interim fifty years and the lessons learned from (at initial publication) the first generation or so of US dollar hegemony. To simplify it maybe too much, it adds a monetary dimension to the already established framework of finance capital being the driving force behind imperialism.

Superimperialism is indeed the same English term often used for Kautsky’s Überimperialismus hypothesis. Yet apart from the initial parallel of a global cartel, ie. dollar hegemony, I don’t see much of Kautsky’s ideas represented in Hudson’s work, but I’m also not terribly familiar with überimperialism.