“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
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Links 5/11/2025
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Stalker (1972) Run Time: 1H 14M
In The Night Stalker, a veteran reporter suspects a vampire is behind a series of gruesome murders in Los Vegas.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Read more...How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
Read more...“The US Trade Deal Is a Bad Deal, and It Has the Potential to Get Worse”
The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Read more...Mexico’s Exports to US Surge to a New Record High Despite, or Largely Because of, Trump’s Tariffs
The world’s largest bilateral trade relationship continues to grow, but it’s a trend that is unlikely to last.
Read more...Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Read more...Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them?
Further discussion of the reductivist “Your with us or your against us” world view, which Newspeak-wise, is being reduced to hatred of Them.
Read more...A US or UK Hidden Hand? “How an India-Pakistan War Could Derail Central Asia’s Future”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Asif contends that acting as a US operative helped prime the current India-Pakistan conflict. Does he have a point?
Read more...Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
Some raised eyebrows over a Trump Administration big spend for a possible flu vaccine.
Read more...Predictive Policing AI Is on the Rise − Making It Accountable to the Public Could Curb Its Harmful Effects
Predictive policing experiments continue, despite poor results to date. Can this approach be made non-abusive?
Read more...Links 5/7/2025
On the Practical Importance of Basic Research for Human Health
I was listening to the journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News last week as he talked briefly about his wife’s ongoing cancer treatment. His short gloss was directly on point, and it motivated me to dig deep in my archives on the history of research on breast cancer and how one never knows what […]
Read more...Roaring Tariffs: The Global Impact of the 2025 US Trade War
A model of the economic effects of various tariffs war scenarios shows even the likley “least bad” outcome is stilll pretty bad.
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