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Sunday, September 7, 2025
Links 9/7/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 153 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Last Days Of Patton (1986) Run Time: 2H 26M
The Last Days of Patton is a movie about the final weeks of General George Patton’s life.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 12 Comments »
“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 5 Comments »
Links 9/6/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 175 Comments »
Michael Hudson: SCO and BRICS 2025
The SCO meeting looked to be a great success. But what can we expect in folllow through?
Topics: China, Currencies, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:45 am | 35 Comments »
The Power of Siberia 2 Pipeline Deal Signifies the Failure of Trump’s Eurasian Grand Strategy
The consummation of the Russia-China Siberia 2 pipellne pact is yet another US policy backfire
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:31 am | 49 Comments »
Coffee Break: Make Polio Great Again, CDC, Institutions and Civilization, and How Animals Emerged
Part the First: Make Polio Great Again! And measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, bacterial meningitis, chickenpox/shingles, cervical cancer, hepatitis B! The title of Part the First comes from an old friend in both senses of the word. He is one of the very few Florida natives you would ever meet. But he is not a […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 30 Comments »
The British Media Again Ignores the Corbyn Insurgency
As Nigel Farage dominates headlines, Jeremy Corbyn is being overlooked by the media – just as he was in 2017
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 32 Comments »
Links 9/5/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 164 Comments »
The US Is Looking to Merge Two Failed Wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror
“All-out war in Venezuela cannot be ruled out”, warns Jeffrey Sachs. “Anything is possible because this is a long-standing operation.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 13 Comments »
Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination
A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending
Topics: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:38 am | 9 Comments »
The Alliance Among Washington, Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley
A new power system has emerged with the alliance among Washington, Tel Aviv, and Silicon Valley: the military-digital complex, and Gaza is its testing ground.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Privatization
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 15 Comments »
Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:28 am | 32 Comments »
Links 9/4/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 143 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Eurasian World Order – New Global Governance
Michael Hudson discusses hot topics, such as the implications of the SCO conference and Xi’s global governance proposal.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 28 Comments »