Thursday, October 30, 2025

Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?

Big companies are cutting white collar jobs, because AI, and warn more is to come. What does this mean for the economy and social stability?

Links 10/30/2025

The Stage Is Set For a US-Instigated Security Dilemma Between the Eurasian Rimland & Heartland

The US and its major European and Asian allies have embarked on a Eurasia contaiment strategy. What are its prospects?

Nationalism – Good or Bad?

Richard Murphy argues that it’s long past time to stop equating all nationalism with Nazism and instead embrace a form of nationalism based on the politics of care. 

Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt

More wanton Trump Administration immiseration of the non-rich, here by blocking state efforts to bar credit reporting of medical debt.

Coffee Break: ICE Barbie on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict & Corruption

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is on the front lines of Trump 2.0 era conflict and corruption alongside Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

The Diminishing Returns of ‘Victory’: Empire in the Age of Climate Tipping Points

All the US energy poured into imperial submission accelerates the gains of humanity’s greatest threat. 

Links 10/29/2025

How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System

Upon reading this collection of essays (the title of this post) from Wolfgang Streeck and then contemplating our current world, The Second Coming of William Butler Yeats comes to mind: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon […]

How Tariffs Hurt the Ones You Love

Investors believe that companies and industries in “red” areas will be hit harder by tariff blowback than those in “bluer” regions.

Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World

Data centers’ rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.

‘The Stuff of Nightmares’: Hurricane Melissa Makes Catastrophic Landfall in Jamaica

“Category 6” hurricane with wind gusts up to 250 mph is set to bring flooding, landslides, and other life-threatening impacts.

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Gunboat Stupidity

For over a century, U.S. warships projected power through the simple act of showing up offshore. That age is ending. The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, conceived as the modern tool of gunboat diplomacy, has collapsed under the weight of strategic obsolescence. This article examines the LCS program’s structural failures, the rise of anti-access/area denial technologies, and recent real-world challenges in Venezuela and Yemen that reveal why coercive naval presence no longer works.

Links 10/28/2025

Hogs at the AI Slop Trough, Gulf States, UFC Edition

Various hogs are lined up at the AI slop trough under the banner of Trump 2.0, including Elon Musk and various Gulf States.