Looking at the signs that key Trump insiders are looking to find or create a pretext for declaring martial law and triggering civil war.
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Tom Neuburger: Is the Trump Administration Out to Trigger Civil War Soon?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 65 Comments »
Links 10/8/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 153 Comments »
Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – A Bulwark Against the Breakdown
Support this site where share information, tips, and laughs over the absurdity of it all in a time of organized abandonment.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:54 am | 2 Comments »
The Illnesses of Basic Biomedical Science, Continued: Scientific Publishing
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Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 6:50 am | 5 Comments »
A Front Line Report of AI Damage to the Job Market
Informative, if also distressing, detail on the havoc AI is wreaking on the job market, particulary for the young.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:47 am | 25 Comments »
After Tariffs, Trump Courts India With Energy and Defense Deals
Neocons still fantasize that the US, having slapped India around, can offer enough cash and prizes to keep it away from Russia and China.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 6 Comments »
Thanks! Met Our Fifth Goal, On to Our Sixth: Karōshi Prevention
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Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 2 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Drone Evolution
Drone warfare in Ukraine now evolves at startup speed. Field hacks turned into industrial lines, FPVs pierce armor, and long-range systems impose steep defensive costs. A compressed feedback loop, from Internet to battlefield, rewards rapid adaptation over pedigree. Airpower is no longer confined to manned jets and billion-dollar missile programs, it is distributed, expendable, and persistent.
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 61 Comments »
Announcing Our Everyone-into-the-Pool “Double Your Donation” Challenge
A wonderful supporter has thrown down the gauntlet with a new “Double Your Donation” challenge! Please make his offer a speedy success!
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:15 am | 3 Comments »
More Trump Jackbootery? Body Camera Video Betrays DHS Account of Chicago Border Patrol Shooting, Attorney Says
More evidence of Trump law enforcement officials using unwarranted violence, here shooting, against protestors.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:13 am | 44 Comments »
Links 10/7/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
David in Friday Harbor: How Naked Capitalism Made a Difference at CalPERS
It’s taken many years of hot lights from Naked Capitalism to get CalPERS to shape up, and there finally has been real progress.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 3 Comments »
Even Palantir Says It Wants Nothing to Do With UK’s Proposed Digital Identity System
When Silicon Valley’s darkest company is warning about the dangers of the UK’s proposed digital identity system, something may be amiss.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
TINA Never Die: Is Taxing the Rich Unthinkable Forever?
Establishment Democrats and Donald Trump both agree there is no alternative to the relentless upward mobility of wealth, is there any hope of change?
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 6:00 am | 25 Comments »
RFK, Jr. Push to Falsely Treat Autism as Produced by Vaccines Would Break Vaccine Injury Scheme, Potentially Risking All US Vaccines
RFK, Jr. really does act like he is out to stop vaccines in their entiretly in the US. That’s the most logical explanation for his latest push
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 18 Comments »


