Monthly Archives: November 2025

November 30, 2025

• Links 11/30/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Import/Export (2007) Run Time 2H 21M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• US “R” Us or Tax Sovereignty?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

November 29, 2025

• Links 11/29/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The UK Is Cursed: How Finance Destroyed Our Economy
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• As US Hunger Rises, Trump Administration’s ‘Efficiency’ Goals Cause Massive Food Waste
  by Yves Smith 6:06 am

November 28, 2025

• Coffee Break: Science and Belief, Working AI, ADHD Update, and Research Support
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Links 11/28/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Trump Administration Is Now Directly Intervening in Honduras’ Presidential Elections, Confirming a Region-Wide Trend
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• How to Stop a Nuclear War — and Why We’re Not Talking About It
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

• Thomas Hobbes and His Political Philosophy
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am

November 27, 2025

• Systemic Entropy and Power: Explaining the Breakdown of World Order
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Links 11/27/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Heavy Metals Contamination Fears Go Mainstream with Infant Formula and Protein Powders
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• Encountering the Buddha
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

November 26, 2025

• Coffee Break: Nvidia’s Narrative Breaking Down?
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Quelle Surprise! Companies With Market Power Drive Inflation
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/26/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• TurkStream Is in Washington and Brussels’ Crosshairs, But Math to Replace the Russian Gas Doesn’t Add Up
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Will MTG’s Resignation Trigger Other Republican Exits, Ending House Majority Before Midterms?
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• U.S. Dams, Levees, Stormwater, and Wastewater Systems Get D To D+ Grades, Need Almost $1 Trillion in Upgrades
  by Yves Smith 2:15 am

November 25, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – RAND Alarms the China Hawks
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Flock Camera Vulnerability: It’s Worse Than You Think
  by Yves Smith 9:56 am

• Links 11/25/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Former MI6 Chief Warns of the Security Risks of the UK Government’s Proposed Digital Identity System
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• AI Hyperscalers Crash the Grid as Big Tech Becomes a Power Trader
  by Yves Smith 2:06 am

• Even the Wall Street Journal’s Editors Have Had It With RFK, Jr.’s Anti-Vax Con Job
  by Yves Smith 1:30 am

November 24, 2025

• Coffee Break: Flailing OpenAI Follows Meta’s Malignant Model
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• “From ‘Mail-Order Brides’ to ‘Passport Bros,’ the International Dating Industry Often Sells Traditional Gender Roles”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/24/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Poison Pill in the US Peace Plan for Ukraine: Europe Written Into the Outline
  by Yves Smith 6:34 am

• Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

November 23, 2025

• Links 11/23/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973) Run Time: 1H 44M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Why Did Britain Stop Making?
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

November 22, 2025

• Links 11/22/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• ‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

November 21, 2025

• Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Sanders Denounces Trump-GOP Healthcare Proposal as ‘Absurd’—and Deadly
  by Yves Smith 9:53 am

• Links 11/21/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Yet Another Dead-on-Arrival Ukraine Peace Scheme: Leaked 28 Point Plan Predictably Unable to Reconcile Irreconcilable Positions
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• New Poll Suggests US Public Are Not Buying Trump and Rubio’s Regime Change Narrative for Venezuela
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
  by Yves Smith 1:27 am

November 20, 2025

• From the Narrative Collapse, a New World Will Emerge: Will It Be Different?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• A War Against Children? ADHD Drugs Become DeFacto Gateway for Many to Multi-Medication “Treatments” Despite Dearth of Clinical Evidence for Use
  by Yves Smith 10:26 am

• Links 11/20/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?
  by Yves Smith 5:30 am

• “Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

November 19, 2025

• Coffee Break: Hasbara Ain’t Cheap, Musk, Ellison, Saudis, All Tapped
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing, Challenges Mamdani
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/19/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Making of the MAGA Right
  by KLG 6:45 am

• “European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
  by Yves Smith 5:23 am

• Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
  by Yves Smith 4:05 am

November 18, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Falklands Temptation
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/18/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Rob Urie: American Decline in Three Parts
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Is the US Trying to Set in Motion a Colour Revolution in Mexico?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
  by Yves Smith 3:59 am

November 17, 2025

• Coffee Break: TACO MIGA Breaks With MAGA Over the Epstein Files
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/17/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• “NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs 
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Social Reuse of Seized Assets
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

November 16, 2025

• Links 11/16/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Whisky (2004) Run Time: 1H 38M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

November 15, 2025

• Links 11/15/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
  by Yves Smith 2:37 am

November 14, 2025

• Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/14/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Even Washington’s European Vassal States Are Now Denouncing Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings on the High Seas
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
  by Yves Smith 3:02 am

• Ever Be Escalating: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
  by Yves Smith 1:33 am

November 13, 2025

• Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Paying for Euroskepticism
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/13/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
  by Yves Smith 3:09 am

• Tom Ferguson and Nick French: Red Tech’s Political Power, Its War on Labor and the Environment
  by Yves Smith 2:32 am

• What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
  by Yves Smith 12:36 am

November 12, 2025

• Coffee Break: Senate Dems Throw Teetering Trump a Lifeline
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• ‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/12/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Trans-Caspian Pipeline Is Resurrected as the U.S. Plots a Return to Central Asia
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Why Trump’s 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• “Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

November 11, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Future of Elite Forces
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• The ‘Supercenter’ Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption − and Waste
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/11/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Washington and Tel Aviv Accuse Iran of Planning to Assassinate Israeli Ambassador in Mexico Without Presenting a Shred of Truth
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Shutdown Has Highlighted Washington’s Retreat From Big Ideas on Health Care
  by Yves Smith 5:39 am

• Who Will End Up Paying for the AI Spending Spree?
  by Yves Smith 3:13 am

November 10, 2025

• Coffee Break: Mamdani’s Battle With Entrenched Power Begins
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Russia’s Choices as It Brings Ukraine to the Brink with Electricity War, Takes Pokrovsk
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/10/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The E.U. ‘Derisks’ Itself Into Another Disaster
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Book Excerpt: How Coyotes Found a New Homeland in the East
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

• Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm
  by Yves Smith 1:35 am

November 9, 2025

• Links 11/9/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Confessions of Felix Krull (1958) Run Time: 1H 46M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• What Can Europe Learn From China’s Critical-Tech Innovation Push?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

November 8, 2025

• Links 11/8/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation
  by Yves Smith 4:10 am

• Another Shutdown Cost: Skewed and Limited Private Data as Economic Hazard
  by Yves Smith 2:52 am

November 7, 2025

• Coffee Break: Wither Sport, Unwellness, Chimpanzee Metacognition, The Sokal Hoax, and a Political Temblor
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• How Neoliberalism Is Digging the Holes of Flagging, Indebted Economies Even Deeper
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/7/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The Digital Euro Just Hit a Wall of Resistance
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Fatties and Diabetics Not Welcome! Immigrants With Health Conditions May Be Denied Visas Under New Trump Administration Guidance
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

• Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change
  by Yves Smith 1:19 am

November 6, 2025

• Bill Gates Wants to Set the Environmental Agenda Ahead of COP30: It’s Not Surprising
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Trump Looks Likely to Lose at Supreme Court on Challenge to His Assertion of Emergency Tariff Authority. How Much Damage Would That Do to His Pretenses of Power?
  by Yves Smith 10:49 am

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

• Call Your Congresscritters: OpenAI Laying the Groundwork for Massive Federal Bailout
  by Yves Smith 5:06 am

• China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Shifting Landscape of Trade and Investment
  by Yves Smith 3:04 am

• Health Advocates Call for a Federal “Reboot” in Addressing Ultra-Processed Foods
  by Yves Smith 12:34 am

November 5, 2025

• Coffee Break: Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City in a Youthquake
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Revolutions in Russia in 1917: February and October
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/5/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Primary Care Puzzle: Can It Be Solved?
  by KLG 6:45 am

• With Baseless Fraud Claim, White House Says Trump Preparing Anti-Voter Executive Order
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• “The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS Are Not the Answer”
  by Yves Smith 12:53 am

November 4, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Poseidon Problem
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• The Lasting Economic Scars of War
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/4/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How Brazil’s New Digital Payments System Managed to Enrage (and Terrify) Both Wall Street and Silicon Valley
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Wall Street Journal Insults Reader Intelligence, Depicts Lenders as Addressing Loan Risks When That Horse Has Left the Barn and Is in the Next County
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• Technology Empires and the Race to Cement Dominance
  by Yves Smith 4:02 am

November 3, 2025

• Coffee Break: MAGA Civil War – America First vs. Israel First
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Mission Impossible: Why the US Cannot Reverse Its Manufacturing Decline
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 11/3/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Tracing a Line Between Israeli Pager Attacks and Ukraine Collapse to the Tennessee Munitions Factory Explosion that Killed 16 Workers in an Impoverished Region of the U.S.
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Trump’s Deportations Are Causing Farm Labor Issues. He Hasn’t Presented a Viable, Long-Term Solution.
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Medicare Advantage: Fraudulent and Misleading Marketing Lures Seniors into Plans Inferior to Traditional Medicare
  by Yves Smith 2:35 am

November 2, 2025

• Links 11/2/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Faust (1926) Run Time: 1H 46M Plus Halloween Bonuses!!
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• The Shutdown – And the House’s Inaction – Helps Pave Congress’ Path to Irrelevance
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

November 1, 2025

• Links 11/1/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Data, Power and Emissions: How AI’s Growth May Slow Down the Green Transition
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• SNAP, the Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program, Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.
  by Yves Smith 5:58 am