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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Links 11/22/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 91 Comments »
The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
Not surprisingly, the Cheney funeral confirmed a great deal about true loyalties in the political and media elite.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 10 Comments »
‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
A much needed, detailed debunking of Trump’s claim that Thanksgiving meal costs, and by implicaiton inflation, are declining.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:25 am | 20 Comments »
Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA
Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism. In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some and causing despair in others, CDC says the mountains of data that show vaccines do NOT cause autism is not evidence-based: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Garrulous insolence, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 21 Comments »
Sanders Denounces Trump-GOP Healthcare Proposal as ‘Absurd’—and Deadly
How Trump’s new healthcare gimmick would lead to more medical bankruptcies, more unaffordable care, and more Americans dying unnecessarily.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:53 am | 12 Comments »
Links 11/21/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 95 Comments »
Yet Another Dead-on-Arrival Ukraine Peace Scheme: Leaked 28 Point Plan Predictably Unable to Reconcile Irreconcilable Positions
Trump keeps trying to “peace deal” his way out of losing Ukraine. Na ga happen.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 45 Comments »
New Poll Suggests US Public Are Not Buying Trump and Rubio’s Regime Change Narrative for Venezuela
“There’s only one person who can stop this crazy train, and it’s Donald Trump, and I don’t know if he has it in him.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 26 Comments »
Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
An overview of recent progress with the gene-editing CRISPR technology, its promise and risks.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:27 am | 13 Comments »
From the Narrative Collapse, a New World Will Emerge: Will It Be Different?
In the information age, it is difficult to make sense of events. Endless amounts of information do not necessarily coalesce into a coherent narrative with explanatory meaning. The breakdown of the international order is precipitating the emergence of different narratives that engender competing truths. The German writer Goethe said: “When eras are on the decline, […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 28 Comments »
A War Against Children? ADHD Drugs Become DeFacto Gateway for Many to Multi-Medication “Treatments” Despite Dearth of Clinical Evidence for Use
The Wall Street Journal tells a sobering and well documented story of how ADHD Rxs in the young often lead to even more drug administration.
Topics: Health care, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:26 am | 27 Comments »
Links 11/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 124 Comments »
Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?
Russia and China did not veto a Gaza-colonizing UN resolution, which says much about where multipolarity is turning out to be.
Topics: China, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 27 Comments »
“Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”
AI overlords seek to be better able to loot than banks: too big to fail yet unregulated. Call your Congresscritters to stop that.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 6 Comments »
Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
An overview of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth explains the core findings of MMT. and how debt hysteria serves the rich, not the public.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:10 am | 29 Comments »



