Lee Camp calls out the New York Times’ many acts of malpractice, including the smearing of real journalists like Ben Norton.
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Sunday, December 28, 2025
Lee Camp: NY Times Goes After Indie Journalists
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, New McCarthyism, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:43 am | 20 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/20/2022
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 70 Comments »
Beer and Spirits Have More Detrimental Effects on the Waistline and on Cardiovascular Disease Risk than Red or White Wine
More evidence that moderate wine drinking is not harmful and can confer some health benefits.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 37 Comments »
Links 4/20/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 245 Comments »
Climate Collapse & Adaptation
Is it possible to adapt to the inevitable like climate collapse? We do it all the time, and everyone living will do it at least once.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Risk and risk management, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 62 Comments »
CDC Delenda Est
More on why the CDC is beyond redemption.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 34 Comments »
Court Should Consider Taking Over Dept. of Correction, Warns Manhattan U.S. Attorney
NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Japan, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:12 am | 5 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/19/2022
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 108 Comments »
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Inflicted by Self-Serving Elite
How the Sri Lanka debt crisis was decades in the making.
Topics: Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 13 Comments »
Links 4/19/2022
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 199 Comments »
Naive Questions About Russia’s War Economy
Russia is now debating alternatives for putting its economy on a war footing: nationalizations or keeping billionaire capitalism in place.
Topics: Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 52 Comments »
Global Energy Giants Breathe Sigh of Relief as Mexico’s Electricity Reform Falls at Final Hurdle
Within hours of the Electricity Reform’s failure, Mexico’s President AMLO had shifted his focus to new legislation aimed at nationalizing Mexico’s lithium deposits.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 6 Comments »
Outdated Energy Grid Poses Existential Threat to the Renewable Revolution
Green energy skeptics cite batteries as a potential constraint on greater EV use. The electrical grid is another possible choke point.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:28 am | 28 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/18/2022
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 102 Comments »
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar: India Has Concerns About U.S. Human Rights Record
Look to India to stay an independent foreign policy course, pursuing its national interests in a multipolar world, instead of joining the U.S. kennel of poodles.
Topics: Australia, Energy markets, Europe, India, Politics, Russia, UK
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 1:55 pm | 30 Comments »
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