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Monday, July 7, 2025
Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:33 am | 178 Comments »
Book Review: “The Great Displacement” Is a Must-Read
“The Great Displacement” argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:54 am | 36 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/7/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler: 🌡️ We are at 371 donors. 371 donors / goal of 375 = 98.93%. So there’s still time to move the needle on that last 0.07%! ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 75 Comments »
Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 4/7/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 173 Comments »
As US and Canada Threaten to Sue Mexico Over Energy Policies, Mexico “Nationalises” Sizable Chunk of Electrical Grid
After years of confrontation and souring relations with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, Mexico’s AMLO government has just agreed to purchase 80% of the company’s Mexican operations.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:43 am | 19 Comments »
Telegram Leak of US/NATO Document Paints Grim Picture of Condition of Ukraine’s Military
In a bit of synchronicity, after pointing out that the Collective West was more free with information with respect to Ukraine than was ideal during a war, today we have the US government het up about an apparent leak. The New York Times reported that some US and NATO plans for building up the third […]
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Europe, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:13 am | 76 Comments »
The Impact of Inflation
The IMF takes a wee look at who is hurt by and benefits from inflation.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:10 am | 6 Comments »
Last Chance for the 2023 Water Cooler Fundraiser, plus Your Plants, ***PLUS*** Challenge!
🌡️ we are at 289 donors. 289 donors / goal of 375 = 77.07%. Can we get to 100%?
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 12 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/6/2023
🌡️ We are at 289 donors. 289 donors / goal of 375 = 77.07%.
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 85 Comments »
U.S. Interference in the Middle East – 20 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq – Col. Larry Wilkerson
Col. Larry Wilkerson describes how the media barely covered the damage wrought by the U.S.-led “coalition of the willing” in Iraq
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 14 Comments »
Waiting for that Too-Much-Discussed Ukraine Counteroffensive
Ukraine and the collective West talk too much.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 115 Comments »
The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:46 am | 31 Comments »
How Union Workers Are Fighting to Save America’s Beleaguered Health Care System
Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:55 am | 11 Comments »