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Sunday, November 16, 2025
Links 11/16/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 10 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Whisky (2004) Run Time: 1H 38M
Whisky is a movie about life, love, and socks set in Uruguay.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | No Comments »
SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
The biggest anti-hunger program in the U.S. is set to lose over $187 billion between now and 2034.
Topics: Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 2 Comments »
Links 11/15/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 154 Comments »
This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
A discussion with the founder of Culdesac, a real estate developer devoted to building walkable neighborhoods.
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Real estate, Regulations and regulators, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:46 am | 29 Comments »
Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:37 am | 30 Comments »
Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP
Part the First: Financial Stability and Climate Instability. Or, could a climate-related shock trigger a recession? This is a question that could be asked only by an economist, or two, as in Advancing research on financial stability and climate-related financial risk, an editorial last week in Science: Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Environment, Global warming, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 21 Comments »
MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 11/14/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 141 Comments »
Even Washington’s European Vassal States Are Now Denouncing Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings on the High Seas
The Trump administration’s war (of pretext) against Latin America’s drug cartels is further isolating the US on the world stage.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 20 Comments »
More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Unemployment among young graduates has hit a sustained high level in many countries, which will produce further social and economic harm.
Topics: China, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:02 am | 39 Comments »
Ever Be Escalating: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
The twisted history of the US war on drugs shows how failed policies come to have a life of their own.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:33 am | 7 Comments »
Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
The ideological currents behind U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s war on Palestine are the same: Yoram Hazony’s neo-nationalism
Topics: Coffee Break, Politics, Social values
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 21 Comments »
Paying for Euroskepticism
A new data analysis shows that Euroskepticism, as in regional voting for nationalist/anti-European Union policies, produces lower growth.
Topics: Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 11/13/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 130 Comments »



