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Sunday, July 26, 2026
Links 7/26/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 72 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 | 2 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 | 6 Comments »
Links 7/25/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 134 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 | 32 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 »
Marco Rubio’s Supersized Reboot of Operation Condor
The US is seeking to create an Operation Condor 2.0 that involves dozens of countries — at a time when ICT technologies make it easier for governments to share information as well as track people’s movements.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »
Iran War: Trump Threatens More Intense Attacks as Advisors Push for Humanitarian Crisis by Hitting Food and Water Stores; Oil Rises to Over $100 a Barrel; Iran Warns UK; Trump Retrades Saudi Nuclear Deal with Abraham Accord Requirement
Today’s Iran war news: Trump may have aged out of his TACO habits and is readying new, potentially global-economy-wrecking, attacks on Iran.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:16 am | 139 Comments »
Pakistan’s US-Iranian Mediation Services Were Just a Bid To Get a Multibillion-Dollar Bailout
As many suspected, Pakistan’s mediation between the US and Iran wasn’t a selfless diplomatic service for regional peace, after all.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:33 am | 4 Comments »
“Islamist Extremism” Has Been Defeated; a New (Old) Foe Is Needed: “Left-Wing Political Terrorism”
“Left-wing political terrorism” is replacing “Islamist extremism” as the main threat narrative in Western countries, answering to a new geopolitical theater
Topics: China, Coffee Break, Politics, Russia, Social policy, Surveillance state
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 21 Comments »
The Kansas Community Fighting Data Centers Before They Arrive
Data center watchdog groups in Kansas farming areas seek to ward off applications and fight if it becomes necessary.
Topics: Agriculture, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics, Social values, Species loss, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:22 am | 9 Comments »
Links 7/23/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:58 am | 100 Comments »




