Some badly-needed sanity-checks on much-hyped stories: the agentic AI breakout and the (nowhere to be found) bond market freakout.
Friday, September 18, 2026
Iran War Quick Snippets: Trump Again Threatens Annihilation Amid Signs of Saudi-Ansar Allah Feelers
Today’s Iran war news: Trump defaults to ever be escalating even as his room for maneuver shrinks
The Many Hypotheses of Why There Is an Avoidable Energy Crisis
From U.S. strategy and multipolar transitions to systemic shifts or human errors, these are some of the hypotheses behind the energy crisis
Money Creation Does Not Cause Inflation
An apparently needed debunking of well-disproven theories that assert that money supply growth generates inflation.
Iran War: Saudi Transits Out of Strait of Hormuz Up Markedly But Diesel Crunch Acute as US Weighs Export Ban
Today’s Iran war news: More oil is exiting the Gulf than before, but diesel and food supplies are in a global crunch.
Professor Michael Hudson interview with Lena Petrova on BRICS and the Global Economy
Michael Hudson discusses BRICS, the posture of India, the energy crisis and the evolution to a new monetary order.
How the American Revolt Against Flock Cameras Mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773
Flock camera interventions illustrate that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Coffee Break: Pardon Me, Trump, No Pardon Me, and Me, and Me and Me, Too!
POTUS Trump has turned his 2.0 regime into a pay-to-play pardon machine and seems willing to pardon virtually anyone, no matter how heinous the crime, how notorious the reputation.
Review: A Vision of a Future Where Machines Fight Wars
Former Defense official Frank Kendall envisions wars where vehicles and weapons operate largely on their own.
Iran War: Europe Oil and US Diesel Crunch Worsens; Tucker Exposes Massive Trump/Israel Bombing Campaign Right After Midterms; Experts Question Survival of Regimes in Saudi Arabia, Jordan
Today’s Iran war news: Things look more and more desperate for key actors: Trump, the Saudis, Jordan, and hapless energy consumers.
Is It Time to Give Up on the Voters?
Liberals refuse to see what’s right in front of them as Germany is the latest example of what happens when centrists confuse managing markets for democracy.
10 Ways Climate-Change-Altered Hurricanes May Come To Bite Us
What happens if sea level rise, hurricane wind strength, or other factors turn out worse than expected?
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ocean Presence: A New Model of Naval Power
Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms. Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.
