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Fifty-one people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed Thursday in a Russian missile attack on a café.

According to a recent McKinsey report on international manufacturing trends, the United States lost over six million jobs to offshoring between the years 2000 – 2009. But a UC Berkeley study undertaken as far back as the early 2000s tabulated losses of up to fourteen million jobs throughout the nation’s economic ecosystem. Each offshored manufacturing and/or service job exerts an adverse, widely resonating local-to-national jobs impact, akin to how throwing a stone into a pond sends waves from the point of impact outwards, far and wide.

Last Friday, Israeli newspapers were filled with stories about the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, also called the October War. In 1973, the country had nearly been defeated by co-ordinated surprise attacks from its Arab neighbors. Never again, people thought.

Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic bottles is a wake-up call for supply chain sustainability.