#NakedCapitalIsm

European hostility towards Russia and related trouble-making have hit the point where Russian Ambassador invoked a new Iron Curtain.

Team Trump's rhetoric against Cuba gets louder despite the lack of legal justification.

Today's Iran war update: The US and Iran trade blows as Trump forcefully rejects fundamental Iran demands and Israel pounds Lebanon.

Russia has cleared its throat about naked European escalatory threats and belligerent moves. What next?

If the AI bubble bursts, the data center build-up could become the infrastructure for economic tokenization and state surveillance

Our daily links: oil shortages, AI sugar crash, drones hit Romania, privatizing weapons-grade plutonium, Thiel flees, and perfect randomness.

US natives did not see wage gains from ICE crackdowns. But the story looks more complicated than some suggest.

Part the First: Functional Art from the Enigmatic Daunians. William Morris famously wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Of course, his beauty in response to the immiseration of the working…

As the ceasefire continues, discussion of the Iran War centered on whether the US or Iran is better positioned to outlast their opponent.

Quelle surprise! Punitive food stamp restrictions do not produce an increase in work levels.

Part the First: Anti-amyloid Antibodies and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A Cochrane review of monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid plaques in AD has found that these drugs have little to no effect on cognitive function of AD patients.…