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.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ocean Presence: A New Model of Naval Power
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 2 Comments »
How South Korea Is Tackling Its Super‑Aging Problem – And What Other Aging Nations Can Learn From Its Experience
Aging societies should be seen as desirable by lowering resource demands. Some countries like South Korea seek to manage the economic shift.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:23 am | 6 Comments »
Links 9/15/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 52 Comments »
Iran War: Ansar Allah Strikes Yanbu Port as Rising Energy Prices Help Push 10 Year Treasury Yields Over 5%
Today’s Iran war news: Ansar Allah makes biggest Saudi attack so far, hitting the Yanbu port and a key refinery as 10 year Treasury yields top 5%
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 92 Comments »
Poll Attributed to US State Dept Claims Most Mexicans Support Unilateral US Military Intervention Against Cartels
The notion that a majority of Mexicans would support US military action is beyond risible, and clashes with the findings of all other recent polls.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 9 Comments »
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Why Keynes’ Proposals for a New Currency Order Are the Only Realistic Path to Durable and Stable De-Dollarization
Hudson and Desai revisit Keynes’ original Bretton Woods currency proposal, built on balance, capital controls, and writing off bad debts
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:44 am | 5 Comments »
Coffee Break: AI Doomer Hypeloop Suspiciously Serves to Support OpenAI & Anthropic’s Agenda
A fortnight of manic MSM coverage of the dangers of AI has crescendoed with OpenAI and Anthropic calling for an AI freeze. When Bernie Sanders & Steve Bannon are agreeing with Altman and Amodei, run.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 44 Comments »
The Meltdown in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Like many of the foundations of US middle-class life, employer-sponsored health insurance is breaking down, likely faster than you realize
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:56 am | 19 Comments »
Links 9/14/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 87 Comments »
Iran War: Saudi Pipeline Out for at Least a Month, Further Stressing Energy Supplies; Trump + Israel Readying Post-Midterms Big Attack? Iran Weighing NPT Exit
Today’s Iran war news: After Ansar Allah attacks, Saudis seem in denial about the weakness of their position.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 101 Comments »
The Long, Lawless Arm in the Fight Against ‘Anti-Capitalist Terrorists’ Reaches Into Europe as Autistici/Inventati Is Debanked, Hacked, and Has Its Domain Shut Down
The takedown of the digital collective has enormous implications for independent media, pro-privacy advocates, and the EU, which simply accepts it in silence as good vassals should.
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, New McCarthyism, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 15 Comments »
‘The Uprising’ Shows How Medieval People Weren’t So Obedient After All
“The violence inherent in the system” remains remarkably consistent.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 21 Comments »
Links 9/13/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 142 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Proudly Presents: Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) Run Time 1H 57M Plus Bonuses!
Blade Runner is a movie about what it is to be human in a world of artificial humans.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 36 Comments »
Organizing for Survival in an Era of Climate Chaos
Systems are failing. What will replace them?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 6 Comments »



