DeStatis – Germany: Exports in August 2023: -5.8% year of year

Over the past few decades, scientists have been making fewer and fewer innovative breakthroughs. The blame lies with academia’s increasingly competitive, metrics-driven model, which discourages creativity and risk-taking. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

Truck toll mileage index, August 2025 -2.3% on the previous month (calendar and seasonally adjusted) -1.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) Read Article HERE

Elected Israeli officials and settler groups last year started riots in defense of prison guards who gang-raped a Palestinian detainee inside the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp Read HERE