Why Green Berets and Navy SEALs need to solve national security problems — strategic issues that ought to be addressed by policymakers — is a question that has long gone unanswered: Overview of global deployment of US commandos.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Don Quijones: Multiyear, Job-Creating, Mass-Tourist Boom in Spain Runs Out of Steam
Tourism in Spain accounted for a quarter of the jobs created since 2013 — but mass-tourism of this type brings its own problems.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/17/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread
Why I Hate Google, Twitter, and Facebook
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Trump Administration Succeeds at Securing Confirmation of US Attorneys
The Trump administration’s success in filling federal judgeships has been widely noted and will have long-term consequences. Filling US attorney positions allows for follow through on implementing Jeff Sessions’ DoJ agenda.
Gaius Publius: Facebook Launches TV News Feed; Fox News Prominently Featured
Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
The National Insecurity State and the United States of Inequality
For tens of millions of Americans, the source of deep workaday insecurity isn’t the standard roster of foreign enemies, but an ever-more entrenched system of inequality.
Meetup Reminders! Portland with Gaius Publius on Wednesday July 18, Seattle July 19
The meetup clock is counting down! Hope to see you soon!
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/16/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade wars (and game theory), Sanders in Pittsburgh, AOC profile, Ritter on the Mueller indictments, Bourdain on Bill Clinton, retail sales, manufacturing, bitcoin, the press, testosterone
Good News? Percentage of Americans Who Believe Climate Change is Real Reaches New High
Public seems to be getting the memo about climate change– despite the forces arrayed to fog this issue and Trump’s abysmal policies. Has this shift come too little, too late– and will necessary policy changes follow?
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Has Mueller Caught the Hackers?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 12 officials with the GRU, Russia’s main foreign intelligence agency, for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election, including hacking Democratic Party emails. Case closed? Author and investigative journalist Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News joins TRNN’s Aaron Mate to discuss.
Michael Hudson: Argentina Gets Biggest IMF Loan in History
Leftout podcast of The Hudson Report, with Michael Hudson, discussing the award to Argentina of the biggest loan in the IMF’s history (includes transcript).
EU Elite on the (Far) Right Side of History
Why the design of the Eurozone has produced right wing policies.
