Informational force feeding via digital news deluge, deliberate disinformation, and divisiveness is turning our brains to pâté and Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Larry and David Ellison, and the Palantir bros are among those cooking up the foie gras.
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Monday, December 8, 2025
Coffee Break: Informational Force-Feeding Divides and Distracts
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 1 Comment »
What’s the Likelihood of a NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact?
How Poland will play an essential role in what happens next between with NATO and Russia.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 6 Comments »
Links 12/8/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 38 Comments »
Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
Why our elites, starting with the top ranks in the Trump Administration, are disgusting.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Russia, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 62 Comments »
Why Has the U.S. Bombed Somalia More than 100 Times This Year?
Examining chaos from the U.S. and friends across the Horn of Africa as the counterweight to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 8 Comments »
The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Income disparity, Infrastructure, Market inefficiencies, Real estate, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 12/7/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 141 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Stalker (1979) Run Time: 2H 41M
Stalker is a sci-fi movie about truth and desire.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 26 Comments »
Investigation Reveals How Amazon Is Fleecing Public Schools With ‘Algorithm-Driven Pricing’
$74 for 36 markers.
Topics: Banana republic, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 12 Comments »
Links 12/6/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 157 Comments »
With UK Politics in Flux, Corbyn’s Your Party May Surprise You Yet
Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:32 am | 21 Comments »
Book Review: Harnessing the Power of Dreams and Nightmares
In “Nightmare Obscura,” scientist Michelle Carr argues that our dreams are essential pillars of who we are.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:10 am | 9 Comments »
Coffee Break: American Science Shattered
American Science, Shattered. So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News. Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summarize them here as they appear. Unlike most accounts of the current state of science in the United States, the authors of this article have found scientists who […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Doomsday scenarios, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 29 Comments »
Brexit’s Slow‑Burn Hit to the UK Economy
A new analysis finds that Brexit imposed higher costs on the UK than forecasts at the time projected.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, The dismal science, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 6 Comments »
Links 12/5/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 129 Comments »




