Trump and the GOP’s extra-Constitutional acts in Washington, D.C., California, and Texas raise questions about the Posse Comatitus Act.
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Saturday, August 16, 2025
Coffee Break: Posse Comitatus and Trump’s Post-Constitutional Order
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 46 Comments »
Iran and Russia Vow to Block U.S. Caucasus Ambitions
How the much-bruited Trump Caucasus deal, meant to cause trouble for Iran and Russia, is only a napkin doodle and may never be more than that
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 6 Comments »
Links 8/13/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 110 Comments »
Science Fiction Science and Artificial Intelligence in Our Future
The 7 August 2025 issue of Nature included an interesting article on The Science Fiction Science Method (paywall) by Iyad Rahwan, Azim Shariff, and Jean-François Bonnefon. The scientific method is difficult enough to understand these days, especially regarding previously important but mundane scientific advances such as vaccines. The Science Fiction Science (SFS) Method is likely […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by KLG at 6:50 am | 17 Comments »
Putin-Trump Summit: Press and Collective West Political Hysteria Escalates as Russia Makes Large, Significant Advance Near Pokrovsk
Trump beats a big retreat in what he expects from the Putin summit even as Russia scores a major battlefield breakthrough.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Europe, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 53 Comments »
“Could 2008 Happen Again?”
Private debt levels, particularly for real estate, look evocative of the 2008 crisis. But how is a rerun likely to differ?
Topics: Banking industry, China, Credit markets, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Payment system, Private equity, Real estate
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:29 am | 25 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Trouble with ALIS
The F-35 fighter jet is the most expensive weapons program in U.S. history, but one of its biggest failures isn’t in the air — it’s on the ground. The Pentagon’s Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), conceived as an ambitious plan to revolutionize fighter jet maintenance and logistics, collapsed under the weight of bad design, poor […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 36 Comments »
‘Israel Has Succeeded in Killing Me’: Journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif’s Last Words
An Israeli air strike killed Palestinian journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera colleagues.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 30 Comments »
Links 8/12/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 181 Comments »
On the United States’ “Imminent” Military Intervention Against Mexico
The Trump administration’s latest escalatory threat comes just days after Rolling Stone reported on a secret drug trafficking cartel operating out of Fort Bragg.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »
What Is Happening to the Dollar as a Safe Haven?
Why the speed of the dollar’s demise seems to be a tad over-anticipated.
Topics: Currencies, Dubious statistics, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 1 Comment »
NYC Mayor Eric Adams in Cahoots With ICE? Sudden Surge in Courthouse Arrests With Failure to Act on Illegal Detentions
Hyper agressive ICE shifts tactics in New York City by arresting targets at court appearances. A sop to Mayor Adams? To NYC oligarchs?
Topics: Globalization, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:44 am | No Comments »
Coffee Break: Larry Ellison + Oracle + AI + Paramount + Trump = Total Info Control
Oracle billionaire CEO Larry Ellison is aggressively moving into media and military contracting to consolidate his power in the Trump 2.0 era.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 36 Comments »
Plunge in Conscientiousness Among Young, a Critical Quality for Personal and Societal Success
Technology is precipitating shifts in character, particularly a drop in conscientiousness, to our individual and collective disadvantage.
Topics: Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 69 Comments »
Links 8/11/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 134 Comments »