Monthly Archives: May 2025

May 20, 2025

• Mass Media and the Spectacle of the Imperial Presidency
  by Yves Smith 1:22 am

May 19, 2025

• Crypto Crooks Now Eating Their Own as Crypto Holders Targeted in Crime, Even Violent; Coinbase “Hack” an Inside Job, and Highly Damaging to Wallet-Holders
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/19/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Onward March, Germany
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Archeologists Join Geologists in the Quest to Define the Age of Humans
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Nuclear Winter from a Pakistan-India War Could Kill 2 Billion
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

May 18, 2025

• Links 5/18/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Life Is Sweet (1990) Run Time: 1H 43M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

May 17, 2025

• Links 5/17/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trump’s Trade Deals Endanger Farmers and Our Food System
  by Yves Smith 6:25 am

• Shanghai’s Liberation Daily Interviewed Michael Hudson: The Trade Conflict Has Brought Irreversible Impacts, Trump Is Compromising Himself
  by Yves Smith 5:46 am

May 16, 2025

• Coffee Break: Notes on Pandemic Responses, a Human Pathogen that Eats the Plastic of Medical Devices, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Speaks Out
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Japan to Arm Wrestle the US About Tariffs….and What About Restrictions on Chinese Investments and Products?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/16/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• US Looks to Escalate Its Economic War Against the World’s Poorest By Taxing Remittance Payments
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Book Review: A Skeptical Look at Grand Designs for the Future
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Prove the Sickness at the Heart of the NHS
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

May 15, 2025

• Big Law Deals With Trump Are Backfiring on Top Firms
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/15/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Trump Smoke and Mirrors on Full Display in Claimed “$142 Billion” Saudi Arms Deal
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• Wall Street Journal Reports UnitedHealth Under Criminal Investigation for Medicare Fraud
  by Yves Smith 2:38 am

• When Illusions of Wealth Shape the Economy: Understanding Pseudo-Wealth, Macroeconomic Volatility, and Social Welfare
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

May 14, 2025

• Despite China’s Warning, US Has Opened New Front in Trade War with Investment Restrictions in UK Pact
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/14/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Abundance vs. Degrowth in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Michael Hudson Discusses How Religions Opposed Usury, the Catholic Church “Interest” Rebranding, and More on the Evolution of Financial Rentierism
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Why the Right Fiercely Attacks the US Postal Service: Its Unions
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am

May 13, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Air Combat Is Changing
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• What The Endgame in Gaza Means For Middle East Security And Oil Prices
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/13/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• The Curious Case of the Hostile Takeover Bid by a Bank Facing Criminal Charges
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Decisive Win for Pensioners, Taxpayers in Kentucky as Judge Wingate Rejects Attorney General’s “Get Out of Jail for Almost Free” Scheme for KKR and Blackstone
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• They Looted Companies — Now They’re Looting the Government
  by Yves Smith 12:41 am

May 12, 2025

• Links 5/12/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)
  by Yves Smith 5:17 am

• Meet the People Profiting from US Military Aid to Israel
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• “How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
  by Yves Smith 3:43 am

May 11, 2025

• Links 5/11/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Stalker (1972) Run Time: 1H 14M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Forensic Science Faces an Identity Crisis
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

May 10, 2025

• Links 5/10/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
  by Yves Smith 6:04 am

May 9, 2025

• Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• “The US Trade Deal Is a Bad Deal, and It Has the Potential to Get Worse”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/9/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Mexico’s Exports to US Surge to a New Record High Despite, or Largely Because of, Trump’s Tariffs
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them?
  by Yves Smith 12:40 am

May 8, 2025

• Martin Wolf’s “The old global economic order is dead”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/8/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Karma Arriving? Times of Israel Frets Over Trump Abandonment With Houthis and Perhaps Even Iran
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• A US or UK Hidden Hand? “How an India-Pakistan War Could Derail Central Asia’s Future”
  by Yves Smith 3:01 am

• Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

May 7, 2025

• Predictive Policing AI Is on the Rise − Making It Accountable to the Public Could Curb Its Harmful Effects
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/7/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Links 5/7/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• On the Practical Importance of Basic Research for Human Health
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Roaring Tariffs: The Global Impact of the 2025 US Trade War
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am

May 6, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Defense Racketeering
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Billionaire Blasts Private Equity’s Continued Grifting as Performance Falls Further
  by Yves Smith 9:58 am

• Links 5/6/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Despite Last Week’s Nationwide Blackout, Spanish Government Takes Criminalisation of Cash to Whole New Level
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
  by Yves Smith 5:50 am

• At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

May 5, 2025

• Coffee Break: Across the Pond, Tyrants Edition
  by Kevin Kirk 2:00 pm

• Links 5/5/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
  by Yves Smith 6:05 am

• The EU Zombie Uses Trump as Cover to Further Feed on Citizens 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• How the State Sent Californians’ Personal Health Data to LinkedIn
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
  by Yves Smith 12:31 am

May 4, 2025

• Links 5/4/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) Run Time 1h 20m
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Underage Workers, Millions of Dollars and Trucks Full of Dead Chickens — Inside the Business of Killing in Response to Bird Flu
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

May 3, 2025

• Links 5/3/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
  by Yves Smith 5:35 am

• Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

May 2, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Attack on Scientists and Scientific Research Continues, Plus One Great Result on a Vaccine That Prevents Cancer
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse
  by Yves Smith 10:50 am

• Links 5/2/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Washington Is Once Again Weaponising the IMF to Try to Reclaim Its “Back Yard”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Federal Cuts Gut Food Banks as They Face Record Demand
  by Yves Smith 2:21 am

May 1, 2025

• US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: Has Trump Agreed to Continue Military Support? Even if Not, Will He Fall for an Endowment Effect Trap?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/1/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: The Unravelling – Part 2: Contagion & Containment
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Legal Limits of Trump’s Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Like Philadelphia
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Global South and Multilateral Financial Institutions: Where Does BRICS Stand?
  by Yves Smith 1:49 am