Monthly Archives: December 2025

December 24, 2025

• Coffee Break: Going Beyond the MSM Name-Calling Narrative at TPUSA
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• What World Was Jesus Born Into? A Historian Describes the Turbulent Times of the Real Nativity
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/24/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• John Helmer: Merz’s War Against Russia Is Splitting the Europeans – Greek Role in Tanker Attack Exposed
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Behind the USDA’s Regenerative Rhetoric Lurks Business as Usual
  by Yves Smith 6:27 am

• Merry Christmas and Holiday Schedule
  by Yves Smith 5:43 am

December 23, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Unfortunate Philippines
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/23/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs As They Escalate Their Assault on Online Privacy and Anonymity
  by Nick Corbishley 6:44 am

• US (So Far) Fails to Capture Third Venezuela Tanker. What Does the US Do to Restore Its Manhood? Allow Privateers via Letters of Marque?
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

• Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

December 22, 2025

• Coffee Break: Democrats Looking to Coast on Anti-Trump Sentiment
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Improving Indoor Air Quality Might Save Your Life
  by Conor Gallagher 8:30 am

• Links 12/22/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Pax Germanica 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Some Perhaps Not Fully Anticipated Effects of Increased AI Use: Evidence Doubts, Fraud and Fraud Containment
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

December 21, 2025

• Links 12/21/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: An Ideal Husband (1969) Run Time: 1H 22M Bonus: Woo!
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

December 20, 2025

• Links 12/20/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

December 19, 2025

• Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 12/19/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Shining a Light on How Exxon Mobil Indirectly Funds Think Tank “Experts” Calling for Regime-Change War in Venezuela
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• “The Truth Behind Trump’s Aggressive Venezuela Strategy”
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious
  by Yves Smith 1:46 am

December 18, 2025

• ‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• “Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/18/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• We Are Nineteen Years Old
  by Yves Smith 6:30 am

• What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
  by Yves Smith 1:16 am

• Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
  by Yves Smith 12:20 am

December 17, 2025

• Coffee Break: MAGA’s Messaging Meltdown Snags Susie Wiles, Kash Patel’s FBI
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• The Bondi Strike: Who Will Control the Narrative?
  by Yves Smith 9:14 am

• Links 12/17/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
  by KLG 6:45 am

• Is AI Creating Monsters?
  by Yves Smith 6:45 am

• The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

December 16, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/16/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Israel Is Trying to Turn the Tide of Opposition (to Its Genocidal Proclivities) in Latin America
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
  by Yves Smith 4:32 am

• Why Housing Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

December 15, 2025

• Coffee Break: Trump Loses in Indiana as the MAGA Civil War Rages On
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/15/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
  by Yves Smith 12:50 am

December 14, 2025

• Links 12/14/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sweet Movie (1974) Run Time: 1H 38M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

December 13, 2025

• Links 12/13/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
  by Yves Smith 3:30 am

• Political Power and Profitable Trades in the US Congress
  by Yves Smith 3:15 am

December 12, 2025

• Coffee Break: Science Update, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear Over Frozen Assets; Will the EU Be Hoist on the Investor-State Settlement Disputes (ISDS) Petard?
  by Yves Smith 9:35 am

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

• The Empire of Lies Is Once Again Sowing Chaos In Its Own “Back Yard”
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
  by Yves Smith 2:15 am

• AI’s Errors May Be Impossible to Eliminate – What That Means for Its Use in Health Care
  by Yves Smith 1:11 am

December 11, 2025

• Doha Forum in Qatar: Another Node on the Grid of the Machine
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Israel Is Acting with Impunity. Is It Overconfident in Trump’s Support?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/11/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Trump Administration Joins EU in Russian Frozen Asset Madness
  by Yves Smith 6:52 am

• U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
  by Yves Smith 1:26 am

• Economic Questions: James Tobin’s Transaction Tax
  by Yves Smith 12:25 am

• The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
  by Yves Smith 12:01 am

December 10, 2025

• Coffee Break: GOP Lures Jasmine Crockett Into US Senate Primary
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Wordle, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Bubbles
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/10/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
  by Yves Smith 5:23 am

December 9, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Death of Full Spectrum Dominance
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/9/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The UK Government’s Plan to Resurrect the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) Is the Definition of Financial Insanity
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Steve Keen Warns Crash of 2026 Will Be Worse Than 2008
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• President Putin and Prime Minister Modi Share a Future Strategy That’s No Joke for President Trump
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

December 8, 2025

• Coffee Break: Informational Force-Feeding Divides and Distracts
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• What’s the Likelihood of a NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/8/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Why Has the U.S. Bombed Somalia More than 100 Times This Year? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

December 7, 2025

• Links 12/7/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Stalker (1979) Run Time: 2H 41M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Investigation Reveals How Amazon Is Fleecing Public Schools With ‘Algorithm-Driven Pricing’
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

December 6, 2025

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

• With UK Politics in Flux, Corbyn’s Your Party May Surprise You Yet
  by Yves Smith 5:32 am

• Book Review: Harnessing the Power of Dreams and Nightmares
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

December 5, 2025

• Coffee Break: American Science Shattered
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Brexit’s Slow‑Burn Hit to the UK Economy
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

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

• Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become? (Part 2)
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

• Under Kennedy, America’s Health Department Is in the Business of Promoting Kennedy
  by Yves Smith 1:36 am

December 4, 2025

• Could an AI Have Suggested that the Earth Is Not at the Centre of the Universe?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• The Anti-MAGA Economics of the Second Trump Administration
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/4/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Blockbuster San Francisco Lawsuit Targets Food Industry Giants Over Ultraprocessed Foods, with Extensive Documentation of Health Damage and Success in Producing Addiction
  by Yves Smith 6:48 am

• Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a ‘Toxic Lie’ Pushed by Plastics Industry
  by Yves Smith 2:13 am

• How Wage Increases Became the Fed’s Red Line
  by Yves Smith 12:23 am

December 3, 2025

• Coffee Break: Trump Insider Deals Hitting the Rocks?
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Is Male Infertility Contributing to Falling Birth Rates?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/3/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Meaning of Freedom in These United States
  by KLG 6:45 am

• Trump Goes Full Biden, Insists No Inflation, Affordability a Con as Strained Consumers Know Better and Trump’s Polls Sink Further
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Trump Administration Supporting Bayer at Supreme Court Over Monsanto/Roundup Deal, Savaged by Investors for Wealth Destruction in the Name of Executive Preservation
  by Yves Smith 3:25 am

December 2, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – How DARPA Lost Its Mojo
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Internet of Beings: The Dream of Digitising Human Bodies for Healthcare (and the Nightmare)
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/2/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Lies Being Used to Justify the US’ War Against Venezuela (and Latin America in General) Are Unravelling Before Our Eyes
  by Nick Corbishley 6:48 am

• Bitcoin, Crypto Plunge Accelerates as Leveraged Players (“Treasuries”) Like Strategy Dump Holdings
  by Yves Smith 5:54 am

• The Cloud’s Not Fluffy, It’s a Hot, Loud, Energy-Voracious Factory
  by Yves Smith 2:44 am

December 1, 2025

• Coffee Break: Personnel and Pardons as Policy in the Trump National Security Regime
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Car Industry Woes Intensify as US Consumers Refuse to Eat the Dog Food, China Suffers from Overcapacity
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 12/1/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• MAGA Antitrust Is Officially Dead: DOJ Sanctions Price Fixing With Slap on the Wrist Settlement Against Rental Housing Collusion Kingpin RealPage 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Why Do We Still Have Poverty?
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Protestor Confrontation with ICE in New York City Appears to Have Stymied Raid; Is There Any Hope for ICE Opposition?
  by Yves Smith 3:24 am