Author Archives: Yves Smith
Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Read more...The Biden Donor Convention
Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
Read more...Links 7/9/2024
‘How Do We Control Palestinians? We Make Them Feel Like We Are Everywhere’
How Israel uses inhumane, experimental surveillance technology against Palestinians. Will this become that new normal?
Read more...EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability
EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.
Read more...What Would a Russian Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
Russia has some thorny and apparently not resolved questions about its end game in Ukraine.
Read more...US Fed-Induced World Stagnation Deepens Debt Distress
US and Fed bad cooking has led to weak growth the world, and by urging poor countries to borrow at once-low rates, debt distress.
Read more...Links 7/6/2024
Michael Hudson: We Need a New Political Vocabulary
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said often enough that the change in the where the center was perceived to sit was […]
Read more...‘Disturbing Milestone’: Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Surpass 1,000 Since October 7
A group of aid agencies decried that no Israeli civilian or soldier has been prosecuted for any of these 1,000 attacks in the West Bank.
Read more...How Many People Knew About Biden? Turns Out, A Lot
How long has the cover-up about Biden’s deterioration been going on?
Read more...The New Curse of Critical Minerals
An updated look at the classic resource curse.
Read more...Germany’s Grid Is Getting Greener as Its Industry Is Weakening
Why Germany’s claimed green transition progress is less impressive than it appears when you decompose the data.
Read more...Project 2025 Architect Signals Bloodshed If Left Opposes Trump-Led ‘Revolution’
The “second American Revolution” underway will “remain bloodless,” said the head of Project 2025 “if the left allows it to be.”
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