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.
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Monday, July 27, 2026
Coffee Break: Dem Establishment Resorts to Racial Divide & Conquer in Michigan
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 4 Comments »
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”?
Topics: China, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 9:55 am | 6 Comments »
Links 7/27/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:58 am | 55 Comments »
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.
Topics: Agriculture, Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:42 am | 117 Comments »
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.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Russia
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 5 Comments »
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.
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:29 am | 11 Comments »
Links 7/26/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 120 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 10 Comments »
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.
Topics: Income disparity, New McCarthyism, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 12 Comments »
Links 7/25/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 135 Comments »
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
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:09 am | 29 Comments »
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.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:23 am | 34 Comments »
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. […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 38 Comments »
Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices?
US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Investment management, Investment outlook, Politics, Technology and innovation, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 34 Comments »
Links 7/24/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:58 am | 50 Comments »




