Yves Smith

Would You Trust Trump Not To Foment Violence In Venezuela To Enhance His Own Collapsing Electoral Prospects?

Before retiring and joining the shady international private equity firm, the Carlyle Group, Admiral James Stavridi had been Commander of U.S. Southern Command and then Supreme Allied Commander at NATO. Yesterday he penned an OpEd for Time, I Commanded the U.S. Military in South America. Deploying Soldiers to Venezuela Would Only Make Things Worse.

Would You Feel Safer With Bernie And Elizabeth Warren Running America? You Would If You Use Medicine

I just got back from the hospital, where I go every 4 months for a little tune-up chemo-light infusion. Not fun, but... well, worth it to stay alive and functioning. And I love seeing my doctor and the nurses-- especially Cindy, the nurse who takes my blood samples before the infusion. The first thing she does is flush my port with saline. And at the end of the blood drawing she cleans the port with Heperin.

The Global Rich Are a Tribe with Their Own Folkways, Values & Mythology. Those Values Are "Pathological."

How the Very Very Rich Fly to St. Andrewsby Gaius Publius Thom Hartmann has a TV show, The Big Picture, which airs every weekday. Often The Big Picture includes a segment called "Conversations with Great Minds," an excellent watch if you're as much a fan of thoughtful talk as I am.