Monthly Archives: August 2025

August 31, 2025

• Links 8/31/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Necromancy (1972) Run Time: 1H 24M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 30, 2025

• Links 8/30/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism
  by Yves Smith 4:38 am

• Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

August 29, 2025

• Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Links 8/29/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Is Washington Trying to Build a “Coalition of the Willing” Against Venezuela?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• “Forcing Zelensky to Hand Putin Ukraine’s ‘Fortress Belt’ in Donetsk Will Lose It the War”
  by Yves Smith 3:27 am

• Trump’s Impact on the Financial Sector and Global Dollar System
  by Yves Smith 1:13 am

August 28, 2025

• Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It.
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Links 8/28/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: Weakening Bank Regulations Will Make the Next Financial Crisis Worse
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Trump’s Intel Move Looks Like Performance, Not Policy
  by Yves Smith 4:37 am

• Trumpian Tariffs Rerun the Failed Strategy of Import Substitution Industrialization
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

August 27, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Political Blender Is Throwing Up Some Odd Alliances
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Should We Try to Prevent Autism?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/27/2024
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Is American Science Stuck in a Doom Loop?
  by KLG 6:50 am

• The President’s “Firing” of Lisa Cook Is Illegal
  by Yves Smith 4:34 am

• The New Currency War: US Stablecoin-China Digital Yuan Rivalry as a Test of Monetary Discipline
  by Yves Smith 4:11 am

August 26, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Misguided Marines
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Jim Chanos on Crypto, AI, Dodgy Statistics, and Casino Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 8/26/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Even Libertarians and Austrian-School Economists Are Pillorying Javier Milei’s Economic Program
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Don’t Look Away: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But the Genocide Is Being Filmed
  by Yves Smith 4:50 am

• FTC Has Long Said Products Must Back Up Health Claims. A MAHA Lawsuit Would Upend That.
  by Yves Smith 4:22 am

August 25, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Abundance Bros Notice the AI Bubble but What Is Their Narrative Leaving Out?
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Trump’s Intel Deal: Knowing the Price of Everything, and the Value of Nothing
  by Yves Smith 9:50 am

• Links 8/25/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Strategies of Hope and Death: the US Foreign Policy Establishment Banks on Things Breaking Washington’s Way Once Leaders of China, Iran, and Russia Eventually Die 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Dissecting My Recent Argument (Are Error Theories Offensive?)
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Health Insurance Price Increases Should Cause Americans More Alarm
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

August 24, 2025

• Links 8/24/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Island (2006) Run Time: 1H 54M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Tit-For-Tat Gerrymandering Wars Won’t End Soon – What Happens in Texas and California Doesn’t Stay There
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 23, 2025

• Links 8/23/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Powell Tap Dances on Interest Rate Outlook as Stagflation Starts to Kick In
  by Yves Smith 6:08 am

• Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats
  by Yves Smith 1:14 am

August 22, 2025

• Coffee Break: Beware the Jargon, Chocolate(!), Arsenic Life Final Update, Death Becomes Us, and the Scopes Trial,
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Neoliberalism Is Not a Viable Option
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/22/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Our Coming Arab Springs?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• What Are the Real Reasons Behind Washington’s Latest Show of Force Against Venezuela?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Lessons from China: Industrial Policy Works Even After Retaliation
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

August 21, 2025

• Putin and Trump in Alaska: Do Men Make History or Does History Make Men?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Asking the Wrong Questions About Antidepressants
  by Yves Smith 9:59 am

• Links 8/21/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Has Extreme Poverty Really Plunged Since the 1980s? New Analysis Suggests Not
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The Core Problem of Economic Inequality: How Much Is Too Much?
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• New Senate Report Details How Private Equity ‘Devastates’ Hospital Systems
  by Yves Smith 3:45 am

August 20, 2025

• Coffee Break: Andrew Cuomo Counting on Trump’s Support in New York Race
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Autism Fabulist RFK, Jr. Shuts Down Research Into Possible Environmental Causes Even as He Escalated Broad-Based Attack Against Vaccines.
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/20/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Tucker Slams Predatory Buy Now, Pay Later Loans as the Economist Celebrates This New Debt Slavery Device
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• On Ukrainian Identity: Ukraine as a Buffer Zone
  by Yves Smith 4:18 am

August 19, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Vanishing Foot Soldier
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Water – Companies Rarely Tell the Public Exactly How Much
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/19/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The EU’s Latest Plan to Stifle Online Privacy Is Terrifying
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Can Putin Legally Stop the Ukraine Conflict Without First Controlling All the Disputed Territory?
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

• New Study Attempts to Candy-Coat Impact of Job Loss
  by Yves Smith 4:20 am

August 18, 2025

• Coffee Break: 2025 Gubernatorial Races Provide Preview for 2026 Mid-term Elections
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Boycott Lufthansa: Removed Passenger from Flight for Wearing a Medical Mask
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/18/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Fog of Summit and Neocon Backlash: Lindsey Graham Readies Threat of Designating Russia a Terrorist State
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 17, 2025

• Links 8/17/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973) Run Time 1H 42M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• The Straw Man City and the Architecture of Selective Small Government
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

August 16, 2025

• Links 8/16/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• CBO Confirms Trump Budget Law Will Trigger Over $500 Billion in Automatic Medicare Cuts
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• How Much Energy Does ChatGPT’s Newest Model Consume?
  by Yves Smith 4:36 am

August 15, 2025

• Coffee Break: AI Deskills Healthcare, mRNA on the Block, Three Hominins Living Together, the Workweek, and a College Essay Worth Reading
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• ‘Alternative Facts’ Aren’t a Reason To Skip Vaccines
  by Yves Smith 10:46 am

• Links 8/15/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Peak Neoliberalism: Wall Street Journal Pearl-Clutches Over Lack of Mobility Due to High Housing Costs, Insufficient Pay
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Netanyahu’s Argentine Dilemma Reinforces Just How Isolated He Has Become On the Global Stage
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Exactly What Is in the Ivy League Deals with the Trump Administration – and How They Compare
  by Yves Smith 2:48 am

August 14, 2025

• In Latin America, the US Is Showing What the Future World-Order Might Look Like
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Cancer Super-Survivors May Hold Keys to New Treatments
  by Yves Smith 10:00 am

• Links 8/14/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Sanders Bill Would Fight Trump Effort to ‘Dismantle Social Security’
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• James Galbraith: From the Fossil-Fuel Civilization Into …? Economics Gets a Biophysical Reality Check
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Thomas Neuburger: Our Lawless Elites
  by Yves Smith 2:46 am

August 13, 2025

• Coffee Break: Posse Comitatus and Trump’s Post-Constitutional Order
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Iran and Russia Vow to Block U.S. Caucasus Ambitions
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/13/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Science Fiction Science and Artificial Intelligence in Our Future
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Putin-Trump Summit: Press and Collective West Political Hysteria Escalates as Russia Makes Large, Significant Advance Near Pokrovsk
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• “Could 2008 Happen Again?”
  by Yves Smith 3:29 am

August 12, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Trouble with ALIS
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• ‘Israel Has Succeeded in Killing Me’: Journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif’s Last Words
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/12/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• On the United States’ “Imminent” Military Intervention Against Mexico
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• What Is Happening to the Dollar as a Safe Haven?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• NYC Mayor Eric Adams in Cahoots With ICE? Sudden Surge in Courthouse Arrests With Failure to Act on Illegal Detentions
  by Yves Smith 1:44 am

August 11, 2025

• Coffee Break: Larry Ellison + Oracle + AI + Paramount + Trump = Total Info Control
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Plunge in Conscientiousness Among Young, a Critical Quality for Personal and Societal Success
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/11/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Trump Route in the Southern Caucasus: Setting Events in Motion 
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Why “Spend Before Tax” Is the Key to Unlocking a Future for Young People
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

• Beyond Carbon: The Overlooked Health Benefits of Fuel Taxation
  by Yves Smith 1:00 am

August 10, 2025

• Links 8/10/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Daughter Of Horror (1957) Run Time: 56m
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Skyscrapers of Babel: How Ancient Mesopotamia Shaped the Modern City
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

August 9, 2025

• Links 8/9/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Europe’s Surrender
  by Yves Smith 4:51 am

• Alfred McCoy: Controlling the ‘World Island’
  by Yves Smith 3:54 am

August 8, 2025

• Coffee Break: Biotech vs. Science, NIH Under New Management, More on Malaria, Dreams of De-Extinction, and an Aside on the State of America
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• As the Colorado River Slowly Dries Up, States Angle for Influence Over Future Water Rights
  by Yves Smith 9:16 am

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

• Demand for Cash In Euro Area Is Rebounding Just As ECB Prepares to Launch Digital Euro
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• ‘Disaster in the Making’: Trump to Open 401(k)s to Crypto, Private Equity Vultures
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• The China Shock Hits Germany
  by Yves Smith 3:08 am

August 7, 2025

• The West’s Ethical Framework Might Not Recover After the Israeli Genocide in Gaza
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Questioning the Corporation
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/7/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Federal Reserve, Using Non-Compliant Accounting, Hides Over $100 Billion a Year of Losses and Resulting Negative Equity, Due to Illegal Bank Subsidies
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: Book Essay – Understanding Iran
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• How States Are Placing Restrictions on AI in the Absence of Strong Federal Regulation
  by Yves Smith 1:21 am

August 6, 2025

• Coffee Break: Grifter as Greek God, Palmer Luckey of Anduril
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Stagflation Watch for the US Economy as a Whole
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/6/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• When One of the World’s Most Powerful Nations Is Run By Spoiled Children 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump Reaffirms Threat of Even Higher Tariffs on India; Deflationary Shock Risk for Global South
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• The “Trump Bridge” Could Lead To Russia’s Expulsion From the South Caucasus
  by Yves Smith 2:42 am

August 5, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Iran Has the Bomb
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Food Rescue Grows in Response to Federal Funding Cuts
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/5/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Trump Threatens India With Secondary Sanctions Over Russian Oil Purchases. What Next?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Less Than Four Months After Joint IMF-World Bank Bailout and Lifting of Currency Controls, Argentina Is Back in Crisis Mode
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Economists Wake Up to West’s Trade and Technology Dependence on China
  by Yves Smith 4:06 am

August 4, 2025

• Coffee Break: Kamala Harris Ducks California Governor’s Race, Drops New Memoir
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Links 8/4/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Wall Street Journal Describes How AI Will Eat McKinsey’s Lunch
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

• US Power Grab of Global Ports Runs Out of Steam Following Pressure From Beijing 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Only Nationalisation Can Save England and Wales’ Failing Water Sector
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Former Ambassador M. K. Bhadrakumar Throws Cold Water on the Idea That India Is Keen About BRICS
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

August 3, 2025

• Links 8/3/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Run Time: 1H 36M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Europe’s Energy Future Hinges on Global Powers
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

August 2, 2025

• Links 8/2/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: From Babylon to Wall Street – How Bankers Make You Poor
  by Yves Smith 6:05 am

• The Hidden Ways Heat Threatens Pets, Children, and Older Adults
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

August 1, 2025

• Coffee Break: COVID-19 and Cancer, NIH Weaponized Against the People, Consciousness, AI and the Internet, and Famine
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• As Tariffs Bite and Jobs Stall, New Interactive Tool Tracks How Much Trump and GOP Are Raising the Cost of Living
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 8/1/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Quelle Surprise: UK’s Online Age Verification Law Triggers Explosion in Demand for VPNs
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Chronically Ill? In RFK Jr.’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault
  by Yves Smith 2:59 am

• Trump Is Hellbent on Derailing India’s Rise as a Great Power
  by Yves Smith 1:12 am