Author Archives: Yves Smith

Is Geneva 2022 Munich 1938 Without Chamberlain’s Piece Of Paper? How To Read the US Paper to Russia For Peace For Our Time

Why the US is looking at best mighty unserious in its talks with Russia.

Our Rolling Civil War

The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.

More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”

A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.

More Covid Delusion: Thermography for Health Endangers Patient Health via Eschewing Masks in Favor of Ozone

A shaggy dog story on how Thermography for Health endangers patients also illustrates the “ozone protection” con/self delusion.

Links 1/8/2022

Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence

How using the military alliance NATO for Euroepean-loyality-building ends has made it more and more of a threat to Russia.

The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics

Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.

“They Really Are Trying to Kill Us”

A tale of elite negligence.

Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites

Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it

Strong Earthquakes Spell Trouble For America’s Oil Heartland

It’s hardly a secret that fracking has produced a sharp increase in the frequency of earthquakes. But now they are becoming more severe too.

Links 1/6/2022

The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It

The Fed is trying to solve an economic problem that is largely outside its reach.

Lawrence Wilkerson: Is Biden Risking War by Pushing Taiwan Independence?

Larry Wilkerson discusses whether Biden is provoking a military response from China that could go nuclear.