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Independent Commentary on Environmental and Natural Resource News
By Kurt Cobb

Sunday, April 26, 2026

The Iran conflict and our Wile E. Coyote moment

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I believe the global financial markets are now in what I would call a Wile E. Coyote moment frequently depicted in the old Warner B...
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Sunday, April 19, 2026

Taking a break - no post this week

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I am taking a break this week and plan to post again on Sunday, April 26.
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Why most economists vastly underestimate the economic damage of the Iran conflict

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A priest, an engineer and an economist are stranded on a desert island. The first order of business is to get some food. The priest su...
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Sunday, April 05, 2026

Martin Act to the rescue: Insider trading on Trump reversals in the legal crosshairs

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Currently unknown investors netted tens of millions of dollars in profit by placing huge trades in the oil futures markets ju...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Iran to Trump: If you destroy us, you destroy yourself

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In the American streaming series " Bosch," the main character, a police detective named Harry Bosch, kills two bad gu...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Is the complacency in global financial markets warranted?

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Shortly before the war with Iran began, I wrote that the seeming complacency among government officials and financial market ...
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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Oil price manipulation, an unrecognized stratagem and an unhinged plan

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Governments around the world are desperate to bring down oil prices in the wake of a cutoff of about one-fifth of the world's supp...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Iran war: What we're in for and why logic is your friend

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Two weeks ago I suggested that the complacency regarding war with Iran was misplaced and that that complacency was likely soo...
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Sunday, March 01, 2026

Could AI lead to the destruction of civilization?

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When it comes to the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and now artificial superintelligence (ASI) (sometimes called artificial g...
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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition

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Last September I produced a brief survey of major conflict across the globe in which I wrote the following about the conf...
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