Trump adviser Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeas corpus due to “invasion.” Whether that happens or not, we’re still seeing constitutional rights continue to erode as the “War on Terror” comes home.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Legal, Middle East, Moral hazard, New McCarthyism, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 33 Comments »
Trump Doubles Down on Gaza Cruelty With Threat to Cut UN World Food Programme Funding if the UN Rejects US Scheme (and a BRICS Note)
Another US disgrace in the form of a threat against the World Food Programme to advance a US son-of-floating pier scheme to feed Gazans.
Topics: Income disparity, Middle East, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:17 am | 29 Comments »
Meet the People Profiting from US Military Aid to Israel
A genocide backed by economic interests is a big problem involving powerful actors. However, many people are taking action to affect the status quo.
Topics: Market inefficiencies, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 17 Comments »
“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:43 am | 35 Comments »
Links 5/11/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Stalker (1972) Run Time: 1H 14M
In The Night Stalker, a veteran reporter suspects a vampire is behind a series of gruesome murders in Los Vegas.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 31 Comments »
Forensic Science Faces an Identity Crisis
To avoid bias, should scientists direct evidence collection from a crime scene? Or should they stay removed from it?
Topics: Curiousities, Legal, Moral hazard, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 6 Comments »
Links 5/10/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 166 Comments »
Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 16 Comments »
How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:04 am | 45 Comments »
Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses
Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss. My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad. For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Environment, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 12 Comments »
“The US Trade Deal Is a Bad Deal, and It Has the Potential to Get Worse”
The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Topics: Auto industry, Commodities, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Taxes, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 38 Comments »
Links 5/9/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 155 Comments »
Mexico’s Exports to US Surge to a New Record High Despite, or Largely Because of, Trump’s Tariffs
The world’s largest bilateral trade relationship continues to grow, but it’s a trend that is unlikely to last.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 5 Comments »
Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 14 Comments »


