Thursday, November 12, 2026

Links 11/12/2026

‘A Mobilization That No One Imagined’: Furious Over Housing Costs, Millions Join General Strike in Spain

The so-called 11N protest Spain is a general strike for housing and against the cost of living.

A Plea for Reason from a Recovering Extrovert

Is it possible to push back against the decline in the ability to reason and even read in much of the population, particularly the young?

Satyajit Das: Chronicle of A Financial Crisis Foretold – Part 1

An important precis from Satyajit Das’ forthcoming book, The Everything Bubble, setting forth why a crisis looks way too likely.

Coffee Break: Who Benefits From the Nvidia Spy Sex Scandal Allegations?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy has some questioning the timing and agenda behind those allegations.

Michael Hudson: Hilarious IMF Demand on Ukraine

Is the IMF as stupid as it looks in pretending Ukraine loans can be repaid, or is it hostage to political pieties?

Links 11/11/2026

The Spook Wave: Elections Usher in More Democrat Military-Intelligence Vets

The party continues to align with CIA and woo military-industrial complex cash as it recruits imperial soldiers to run for Congress. 

Announcing Legal Defense Fund as Charles Asubonten Threatens to Escalate His Meritless Attempt to Censor Our Reporting via Yet Another Lawsuit

As you will see below, former CalPERS Chief Financial Officer Charles Asubonten is trying to silence our documentation of his vexatious legal campaign against Naked Capitalism. He is seeking the retraction of our publication of the filings in his new lawsuit in Federal Court in the Northern District of Alabama, along with some limited commentary. […]

Big Tech’s Political Headache and the Fight for America’s Future

US voters rejected AI and Big Tech power. Which Dems are poseurs who will make only Potemkin reforms?

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Fail-Safe Fallacy: The Hidden Danger of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons depend on elaborate safeguards intended to prevent unauthorized use while ensuring retaliation remains possible. But safeguards against one kind of failure can create vulnerabilities to another. Can the world’s nuclear command systems be trusted to prevent catastrophe when their collective reliability cannot be established?

Why Sudan’s Civil War Is Becoming a U.S. National Security Threat

Why the civil war in Sudan has much bigger implications for the region and the US than is generally acknowledged.

Links 11/10/2026

China Just Upgraded Its Trade Agreement With Peru in Fresh Setback for Washington’s Donroe Doctrine

While the US has been largely successful in imposing its security doctrine on vassal states in Latin America, it cannot replace the trade or investment it seeks to destroy. 

Representative Thomas Massie Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth, who celebrates maximum lethality, will soon be on the receiving end of a beating. Can he take it as well as he dishes it out?