Monthly Archives: June 2024

June 15, 2024

• Michael Hudson: US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

June 14, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• “Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 6/14/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Milei’s Latest Plan to Embroil Argentina in Ukraine Conflict Involves Sending Five French Fighter Jets That Cannot Fly
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Western Officials and Press Starting to Acknowledge Impact of Russian Electric War on Ukraine
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• Biofuels Manufacturing Found To Be a Significant Source of Hazardous Air Pollution
  by Yves Smith 1:47 am

June 13, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/13/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Intrigue About Exit of Mustafa Nayyem, Ukraine Restoration Funding Chief and Maidan Revolt Instigator, Diverts Attention from Boneheadness of the Scheme
  by Yves Smith 10:58 am

• Links 6/13/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• “Dollar Doomsters Have Got It All Wrong”
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Corporate Landlords’ Profits Soar as Tenants Drown in Rent Hikes and Fees
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

• Heatwaves Ripple into the Financial System
  by Yves Smith 2:00 am

June 12, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/12/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:10 pm

• New York Cannabis Program Becomes Field Day for Private Equity Exploitation, Including Predatory Loans, Overpriced Leases to Store Owners
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 6/12/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Biden Plan to Save Medicare Patients Money on Drugs Risks Empty Shelves, Pharmacists Say
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad’s Murder of Banana Workers
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Türkiye Shows Renewed Interest in Joining BRICS
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

June 11, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/11/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Links 6/11/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:56 am

• Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe, Using Poland As a Testing Ground
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Buzzer Beater – Russian General Staff Aims at Ending the Ukraine by Electric War
  by Yves Smith 6:11 am

• The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right” 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

June 10, 2024

• Ninth Circuit Supports Jacobson Public Health Doctrine, But Accepts “Non-Traditional” Covid Vaccines May In Fact Be Treatments (and Hence Should Not Have Been Mandated)
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/10/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Russian Endgame in Ukraine and European Resistance to “Right Wing” Advances: A Thought Experiment
  by Yves Smith 8:15 am

• Links 6/10/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• The Desire to Be “Your Own Boss” in America
  by Yves Smith 4:47 am

June 9, 2024

• Links 6/9/2024
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The War Racket in Germany 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

June 8, 2024

• One Issue Proved Key to the Opposition’s Stunning Success in India’s Election: Caste Politics
  by Yves Smith 10:21 am

• Links 6/8/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• Black Sea Port Becomes Geopolitical Battleground Between China and the EU
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

June 7, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/7/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage
  by Yves Smith 12:24 pm

• Links 6/7/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• X Premium Users Face Stark Choice: Hand Over Biometric Identitifiers to “Spooky” Israeli Firm or Get Demonetised
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• When It Comes to the Environment, There Really Is No Such Thing as a “Good” Car
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

• Research on Earth’s Raging Heat of 2023-24 Is Picking Up
  by Yves Smith 1:02 am

June 6, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/6/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The EU’s Outsourced Migration Control Is Violent, Expensive and Ineffective
  by Yves Smith 10:12 am

• Links 6/6/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• In Virginia, Data Centers Collide with Zero-Carbon Goals
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Georgia Appeals Court Halts Trump Election Interference Case
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Mount Sinai Eye & Ear Nurses Rally for Layoff Plan as Beth Israel Shutdown Looms
  by Yves Smith 5:31 am

June 5, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/5/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Israel Threatening to Take on Hezbollah After Cross-Border Attacks Produce Intense Wildfires
  by Yves Smith 10:30 am

• Links 6/5/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:59 am

• The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: A Review
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• California Becomes Latest State To Try Capping Health Care Spending
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Battles Brew Over Radioactive Wastewater Discharge from Shuttered Nuclear Plants
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

June 4, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/4/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• ‘A Monstrosity’: Biden Blasted Over Planned Executive Order on Asylum
  by Yves Smith 10:23 am

• Links 6/4/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Some Initial Thoughts on Mexico’s Genuinely Historic Election
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Scott Ritter Removed from Plane to Russia and Had Passport Seized with No Explanation
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
  by Yves Smith 4:40 am

June 3, 2024

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/3/2024
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Israel Boosterism Keeps Israel Bonds Afloat Even as Some Top Global Investors Exit
  by Yves Smith 10:37 am

• Links 6/3/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How Influencer Cartels Manipulate Social Media: Fraudulent Behaviour Hidden in Plain Sight
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

• Italy Pipes Up Against NATO Escalation as Court Ruling Could Cut Off Russian Gas Sooner Than Expected
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Ready Reckoner For Killing – The Raisi Assassination
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

June 2, 2024

• The Twenty-First Century Executive Branch Is a Criminogenic Environment
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• Links 6/2/2024
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• How Workers Are Revolutionizing the South
  by Lambert Strether 6:50 am

June 1, 2024

• Links 6/1/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Data Centers Set to Consume 9% of U.S. Electricity by 2030
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• Death and the Cinema
  by Yves Smith 2:17 am