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Sunday, June 7, 2026
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: In This House Of Brede (1975) Run Time: 1H 44M plus Jazz bonus!
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 8 Comments »
What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
How about defeat?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 29 Comments »
Links 3/7/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 71 Comments »
Iran War: Brent Ends Week at Over $90 a Barrel, Doubts About Damage to Iran and Condition of Israel Rise, Trump Doubles Down on Failing Kinetic War and Desperate Messaging
Today’s Iran war update: rumors of US force deployments as oil and gas price rises threaten the global economy and Mr. Market’s mood.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 288 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Today’s Global Choice – A U.S. Ruler-Based Order or International Law
How Trump is replacing the pos-World War II only-somewhat coercive rules-based order with openly thuggish, predatory US domination
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:58 am | 11 Comments »
Coffee Break: Vaccines, Libraries, and Diet…Nothing About the War
Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth. Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s. When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and devastating: Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 16 Comments »
Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Topics: Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 14 Comments »
Links 3/6/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 71 Comments »
Iran War: More on Systemic Impact of Strait of Hormuz Closure, US Inability to Intervene as Trump Team Doubles Down on Hare-Brained Schemes to Prevail via Force
The latest Iran war update, with more detail on the Administration’s desperate escalation scheme versus the rising damage from a Strait of Hormuz closure.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Investment outlook, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 297 Comments »
US Military Opens Up Another Front, This Time Against Ecuador’s “Narco-Terrorist” Organisations
But what if one of the country’s biggest drug cartels is being run by the US-born president’s family business?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 12 Comments »
Do Iranians Really Want to Overthrow the Islamic Republic?
Polling data, religiosity surveys, and demographics raise questions about the Western narrative that Iranians seek regime change
Topics: Coffee Break, Middle East, Politics, Social values
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 28 Comments »
Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except in Wages & Rents
Companies tamp down on wage increases thanks to double-digit inflation in employee health insurance, hurting real household incomes.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 5 Comments »
Links 3/5/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 48 Comments »
Iran War: Systemic Risk of a Strait of Hormuz Closure, US Plan to Enlist Kurds, Hezbollah Unexpectedly Pounds Israel
Today’s Iran war update starts with a sobering, must-read analysis of the catastrophic real-world damage of a long Strait of Hormuz closure.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Investment outlook, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 275 Comments »
URGENT: Please Write the FCC to Oppose Latest SpaceX World-Changing Plan, Massively Light Polluting Reflect Orbital Satellites, Which Will End the Night Sky
American readers: please submit comments pronto to the FCC to oppose two dangerously bone-headed SpaceX schemes
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:25 am | 17 Comments »



