Sunday, September 7, 2025

Links 9/7/2025

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.

“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. 

Links 9/6/2025

Michael Hudson: SCO and BRICS 2025

The SCO meeting looked to be a great success. But what can we expect in folllow through?

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

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 […]

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

Links 9/5/2025

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.” 

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

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.

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.

Links 9/4/2025

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.