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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Links 6/21/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 152 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Why America Is at War with Iran
The neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 24 Comments »
NATO’s Procurement Corruption Scandal Might Delay Its Rapid Militarization Plans
Yves here. Yet another example of European values in action! A corruption scandal in Aisle 5! While this procurement abuse is not all that big an impediment to European NATO members bulking up their armed forces, say compared to voters not being on board with baked-in social spending cuts, the lack of an industrial base, […]
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:05 am | 10 Comments »
Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance
Part the First. How Did the United States Get This Healthcare System? I distinctly remember the first time this question occurred to me, because as the child of a union household a visit to the doctor or the Emergency Room (trees were made to fall out of) was never a problem. I was twenty years […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Economic fundamentals, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method, The dismal science
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 15 Comments »
ICE’s Rap Sheet Grows With Continuing Defiance of Congressional Oversight at Facilities, Attempt to Write Its Own Rules
ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 15 Comments »
Links 6/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 203 Comments »
Christine Lagarde’s Delusions of Grandeur(o)
As the US dollar’s decline deepens, is this the EU’s “global Euro moment”?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 11 Comments »
What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:23 am | 94 Comments »
The US Is Taxing the World’s Poorest — and Is Disguising It as Regulation
Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:08 am | 5 Comments »
Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons
Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran
Topics: Coffee Break, Middle East
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 76 Comments »
Trump Reportedly Greenlights Plan for US Attack on Iran Without Congressional Approval
The Trump administration barrels toward U.S. intervention in Iran, with neither reality nor Congress serving as a check.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 170 Comments »
Links 6/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 146 Comments »
Will Iran Actually Close the Strait of Hormuz? Eni CEO Weighs In
Investors seem unduly chill about the risk that a US attack on Iran will produce a formal or de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Investment outlook, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:00 am | 43 Comments »
Via the False Claims Act, NIH Creates Another Weapon for Ideological Enforcement at Universities
Universities are loath to take NIH funding due to “evil” grant terms that make ideological non-compliance subject to False Claims Act damages
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Politics, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:03 am | 5 Comments »
What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
In Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy presents historical foes of monopoly, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:41 am | 13 Comments »