Monday, July 27, 2026

Coffee Break: Dem Establishment Resorts to Racial Divide & Conquer in Michigan

Having destroyed Graham Platner’s candidacy in Maine, the AIPAC-funded Democratic establishment has turned its full attentions to Michigan where it hopes to use Black voters to stop anti-war candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

The AI Race With China Is a Lie Told by Big Tech to Justify the Data Center Invasion

Why do we need hyperscale data centers to “beat China”?

Links 7/27/2026

Iran War: Trump Dithers as Strait of Hormuz Damage Compounds; Ansar Allah-Saudi Conflict Spirals, Adding to Economic Harm; Iran Threatens Retaliation Against Ukraine

Today’s Iran war news: The US-Iran strikes remain on hold for a second day. But Netanyahu and other Lindsey Graham fans are in DC this week.

As New Era of Global Conflict Rages, Climate Change Turns the Prizes to Dust 

In the race to control chokepoints and other valuable terrain, global warming will emerge the ultimate winner. 

Michael Hudson: The U.S. Plan to Revive Geoeconomic Dominance

How Trump has been trying to use military muscle to reassert US geopolitical and economic dominance.

Links 7/26/2026

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cwal AKA At Full Gallop (1996) Run Time: 1H 44M Plus Bonuses!

Cwal is a movie about horses, life, and living on one’s own terms.

How Anti-Worker Lawmakers Are Trying to Muzzle Voters

Unions rightly criticize GOP policies but what do they have to say about their own failed leadership and that of the Democrats with which they have bound themselves. 

Links 7/25/2026

Humanity and Nature Through Social Production: Marx’s Materialism Unfolded from Epicurus

John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx learned from chemists, physicists, biologists and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus

How Technology Is Rewriting the Way We Write

On how the use of technology, as in typing and computer-based editing, compared to the effects of composition via handwriting.

Coffee Break: Longevity, Quackitude, a Supplement that Works, and a Short Meditation on Orthodoxy

Part the First: What the Longevity Bros Miss: The Office of Science and Society (OSS) at McGill University is one of the best newsletters of its kind and has provided much to think about today’s Coffee Break.  In this first part, it is not too difficult to understand the desire to live long and prosper.  […]

Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices?

US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?

Links 7/24/2026