Economy
Coffee Break: Notes on the Surveillance State, AI, and Scientific Communication
Part the First: Is There No Place to Hide, or Just Be Yourself? Caitlin Johnstone points out once…
‘Utterly Unsustainable’: Employer-Sponsored Health Care Costs Set to Keep Surging
Yves here. While this article correctly calls out the cancerous growth in US health care costs, it sadly…
Iran War: Bessent Effectively Admits New Ferocious Iran Sanctions Likely to Fizzle as Treasury Intervention Fails; More Evidence of US Military Impotence; Ansar Allah Makes Drone Strikes Into Saudi Arabia
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The EU Commission’s Secret Plan to Share EU Citizens’ Most Sensitive Data With Israel
For three years the Von der Leyen Commission has been secretly negotiating to hand over its citizens’ data…

Russia’s Arctic Route | naked capitalism
Yves here. Readers were very receptive to and impressed by the first post by Joseph Busby of Reality…
The Modern West Belongs to Valle-Inclán’s Esperpento, Not Nolan’s Odyssey
“Classical heroes reflected in concave mirrors produce the Esperpento,” declares Max Estrella, the tragicomic, impoverished poet of Bohemian…
















