The Weekly Flail — December 7, 2024

Mike Meyer
16 min readDec 7, 2024

OVERVIEW

As hard as I look, there is still no good news for the American nation. In line with my previous adjustments to sources for The Flail, other publications are beginning to eliminate mainstream American media as unreliable. Sadly, The Economist is becoming unreliable. While I continue to use it, that will be limited as it is simply parroting the American Empire propaganda, which is usually wrong. So it goes.

This week, we will look at WAR, CLIMATE, and TECHNOLOGY. The political overview is locked into climate and integrated economic disasters, producing chaos in the American imperium. The difficulty is the wild political threats and claims made have little to do with the continuation of neoliberal policies that will not change until they are forced to by resource and climate collapse.

WAR

Qatar says ‘momentum’ building back up in Gaza ceasefire efforts [Al Jazeera]

Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, December 7, 2024 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 7 Dec 2024

A month after suspending its mediation bid, Qatar has said it sees “momentum” in efforts to…

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Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer

Written by Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/

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