By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m being extremely lazy in the run-up to New Year’s. See you next week! –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, but it has to be done. Drops across the board, which I assume is entirely a holiday-driven reporting issue. At reader request, I’ve […]
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/30/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m going to be keeping Water Coolers shorter than usual through the New Year. In order to make the year turn toward the light more rapidly, I will make the proportion of frivolous material greater than usual. –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, […]
4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.
A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/29/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m going to be keeping Water Coolers shorter than usual through the New Year. In order to make the year turn toward the light more rapidly, I will make the proportion of frivolous material greater than usual. –lambert. Bird Song of the Day Here is was a warbler […]
Wall Street Mega-Landlord Blackstone Prepares to Reap the Spoils of Another Crisis
Blackstone was a big winner of the last crisis. Now, it hopes to repeat the feat, albeit using a somewhat different playbook.
Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy
Michael Hudson discusses the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/28/2020
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Alaska Tribes, Conservation Groups, and Businesses Sue to Save the Tongass National Forest
Environmentalists, tribes, and small businesses has sued to roll back the Trump rescission of the roadless rule in the Tongass National Forest. Will the Biden administration do so if the courts won’t?
