Your daily policy brief to explore emerging topics and discover top-notch policy material about fields that impact and inform our preparedness like Economics, Geopolitics, Climate Change, Science & Technology and more, hand-selected daily for you.
As always, we prepare for the worst, but hope and pray for the best!
Daily Policy Topics
Economics
Powell Vows To Cut Rates With Stocks, Home Prices, Rents And Food At All Time Highs
The ECB’s Throuple… Or Trouble?
Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
Geopolitics
Kirby Yet Again Cites ‘Progress’ On Gaza Talks With CIA’s Burns In Cairo
US Calls for Ceasefire But Keeps Supporting War
American Interventionist Foreign Policy: One and a Quarter Century of Failure
What Are China and Russia Doing in Africa?
Japan-Taiwan Maritime Security Cooperation
There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist
Estimating China’s Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right)
How Harris and Walz Would Deal With Global Hot Zones
Cooperation vs. Confrontation in the Indo-Pacific
Climate Change
New images reveal global air quality trends
Why Are Extreme Heat-Related Deaths So Hard to Track?
Imperial Oil Tailings Spill Fine a ‘Toothless Slap on the Wrist,’ Environmentalists Say
Science & Technology
Scientists propose guidelines for solar geoengineering research
Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack
Meta and Spotify CEOs criticize AI regulation in the EU
CrowdStrike 2024 report exposes North Korea’s covert workforce in U.S. tech firms
American Politics
Must Watch: RFK Exposes DNC Corruption, Suspends Campaign, Backs Trump In Battleground States
Study Exposes The Myth Of Federal Reserve Independence
Kennedy Suspends Campaign, Endorses Trump
Good News!
Good News in History, August 23
To save Maui’s native birds, experts release ‘Keurig pods’ full of mosquitoes into national park
Scientists Made a List of Lost Birds and Now They Want Us to Find Them
First-Ever Coral Crossbreeding Hopes to Mimic the Resilience of an ‘Invincible’ Reef in Honduras
Quote of the Day
“My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
