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Announcing Our 2025 “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Bravo! Met Our Second Goal, On to Our Third: Supporting the New Coffee Break/Sunday Movie Feature
Coffee Break: Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front
Quelle Surprise! Advanced Nations Stymie Governance Reforms at World Bank Intended to Increase Influence of Global Majority
Tony Blair and Larry Ellison Make One HELL of a Partnership
Censorship, Surveillance, and Spin: EU, UK, and Ukraine Try to Drive the Narrative
Trump’s Desire to Seize Bagram Airfield Will End in Disaster
The Rev Kev: Naked Capitalism – Bringing You Next Year’s News Today
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Stopping START
Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas
Chasing Down Old Nazis in New York Court: Suit Against Volkswagen Controlling Shareholders and Key Managers Over Massive Clean Diesel Fraud
What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs? 
Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – Your Source for Unique, Unsparing Coverage of Late-State Barbarism
“AI Makes Past Hype Cycles Look Tame”: PitchBook on the Stunning Venture Capital Mania for AI
Announcing a Surprise “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
Coffee Break: Shutdown, Clampdown, Clownshow or Horror Movie?
Hooray! Met Our Third Target! On to the Fourth: Continuing Expanded Daily Links
How Climate Change Is Driving Home Insurance Turmoil
Israeli Forces Spark Global Outrage by Intercepting Sumud Flotilla Off Gaza Coast [Updated]
Naked Capitalism: Your Indispensable Bullshit Detector
Trump Admin Moving Fast, Breaking Things as Shutdown Continues
Trump’s Imminent War(s) and Economic Damage as His Legitimacy Crumbles
With Venezuela and Iran, Is the U.S. Trying to Revive the Petrodollar?
The J K Galbraith Question: The Tyranny of Private Consumption
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
Colombia’s Petro Government Once Again Shows Rest of World How to Respond to Israel’s Naked Criminality
US Workers Experience Large Month-to-Month Fluctuations in Pay
Announcing Our Biggest Ever Double Your Donations Challenge!
Coffee Break: Vaccines Continued, Ancient Art, Renewables, Ignis Fatuus Explained, Good Sleep, and Jane Goodall
Green Capitalism in the Americas: False Solutions, Real Threats
US Economy Is Already on the Edge – A Prolonged Government Shutdown Could Send It Tumbling Over
Kudos! Hit Fourth Fundraiser Target, On to the Fifth: Our Esteemed Writers
Henry Moon Pie: Time to Support a Reader-Supporting Site
Rajiv Sethi: The Compact
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Run Time: 1H 54M
KLG: Naked Capitalism – Your Essential Community
Fundraiser SOS! We Are REALLY Behind!
Pakistan as a Consequence of the Partition of British India in 1947
Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections
Lecornu Resigns Less Than a Day After Forming Government; How Long Can Macron Hang On?
Nat Wilson Turner: Naked Capitalism – Your Antidote to The Stoopid
What Do Trump Administration’s Threats on “Anti-Capitalism” Terrorism and RICO Mean for Organized Labor?
Coffee Break: Bari Weiss, CBS News, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Same Old
RFK, Jr. Push to Falsely Treat Autism as Produced by Vaccines Would Break Vaccine Injury Scheme, Potentially Risking All US Vaccines
TINA Never Die: Is Taxing the Rich Unthinkable Forever?
Even Palantir Says It Wants Nothing to Do With UK’s Proposed Digital Identity System
David in Friday Harbor: How Naked Capitalism Made a Difference at CalPERS
More Trump Jackbootery? Body Camera Video Betrays DHS Account of Chicago Border Patrol Shooting, Attorney Says
Announcing Our Everyone-into-the-Pool “Double Your Donation” Challenge
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Drone Evolution
Thanks! Met Our Fifth Goal, On to Our Sixth: Karōshi Prevention
After Tariffs, Trump Courts India With Energy and Defense Deals
A Front Line Report of AI Damage to the Job Market
The Illnesses of Basic Biomedical Science, Continued: Scientific Publishing
Conor Gallagher: Naked Capitalism – A Bulwark Against the Breakdown
Tom Neuburger: Is the Trump Administration Out to Trigger Civil War Soon?
Coffee Break: Ken Paxton Takes His Anti-Antifa Fight Undercover
Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
Economic Justice, Desert, and Capitalism (Again)
Will Trump Work Himself Into a Shoot Versus Illinois Governor?
Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Waiting for the Wheels to Come Off as Jamie Dimon, the IMF and Bank of England Warn of Damage of an AI Bubble Burst
Europe Is Not a State; That Is Why It Is at War With Russia
Kudos! Met Our Sixth Goal, On to Our Seventh: More Original Reporting
Ten Reasons Why Trump Should Never Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
Things Are Getting Seriously Surreal in Milei’s Argentina
Procrastinators of the World, Unite! Last Day, Last Chance for Our 2025 Fundraiser!
Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Down to the Wire for 2025 Fundraiser, Help Hit Our New Donor and $ Targets!
Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics
Countdown!
Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?
What Version of Democracy Will Prevail?
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Moscow, My Love (1974) Run Time: 1H 29M
AI: Is it Really Different this Time?
How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
Crypto Crash Leads to Customer Bail-Ins to Prevent Some Exchanges from Failing
Looking to Türkiye For Clues About What’s Coming in Western Asia
Coffee Break: Bad Jacketing Katie Porter
The Rising Carbon Footprint of Electricity in the United States
Economic Myths: Homo Economicus
War in Venezuela Could Be Another Vietnam, Warns Mexican Analyst Fernando Buen Abad
The Huge US Bond Market and the US Dollar Blow Off the “Debasement Trade”
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Rare Earth Elements
Israel, the US, and the New Aerial Imperialism
As Trump Sells Peace in West Asia, His ‘Route for International Peace and Prosperity’ in the Caucasus Fails to Live Up to Its Name
Trump 2.0’s Eurasian Balancing Act Has Failed
Financial Institution Leaders Issue More Warnings of Equity Market Froth, Dodgy Debt Bombs
Coffee Break: Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, and Eric Trump Trio of the Week
Drug Price Wars: What Can Really Tame Big Pharma?
Winning with Misinformation: New Research Identifies Link Between Endorsing Easily Disproven Claims and Prioritizing Symbolic Strength
Trump Plans to Use Men With Guns as Part of IRS Campaign Against “Left-Leaning” Groups
What Does New High in US Stock Market Margin Debt Portend?
Afghanistan–Pakistan Clashes in Middle East Context
Data Centers Spark Bipartisan Fury As Energy Costs Soar
How a One-Man Grassroots Campaign Scuppered the EU’s Latest Plan to Suffocate Online Privacy (For Now)
The Trump-Putin Phone Call: US Makes Process Concession to Russia and Trump Softens Stance on Tomahawks.
‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever
Coffee Break: Politics and Science and Politics, a Coral Catastrophe, Mamdani, and the New ICE Age
Book Review: The Mixed Blessing of Antibiotics
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Amounts of Lead, New Report Says – A Pharmacologist Explains the Data
How a Bush-Era ‘Green’ Solution Made Climate Change Worse
The Sunday Movie Presents: Charade (1963) Run Time: 1H 56M
Commodities: Why They Are a Challenge for Investors
FEMA Buyouts vs. Risky Real Estate: New Maps Reveal Post-flood Migration Patterns Across the US
Who’s Profiting off of the Criminalization of Homelessness?
AI Is Coming For Your Doctor
Coffee Break: Pyrrhic Victory Drives Dystopian High Tech Drive for Control
Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy
Not the Fix—The Tell: The Meaning of a $100,000 H-1B Fee
Who’s Delusional, Who’s Drugged, Who’s Disinformed? It’s Hard to Tell
Western Media Finally Admit That Trump’s Mobilisation of Forces Against Venezuela Is All About Regime Change
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Wonder Weapons
OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats − Here’s Why That Matters
Former NATO Chief Stoltenberg Says Alliance Let Ukraine Down, Washington Was ‘Defeatist’
Generational Political War in a Hypernormalized Context
Whither Food in the Twenty-First Century?
Coffee Break: Gerontocrats Bad Jacket Tactics Not Working in U.S. Senate Primary?
The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K
Brain Rot: LLMs, Long Covid Edition
The Personal Is the Political for Publishers and Presidents Alike
Reward and Retribution Is the New U.S. Policy for Latin America
Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
Brain Rot 2: Legal Corruption, Cuomo Rascist AI Slop Edition
Wall Street Banks Come to the “Rescue” of Milei’s Argentina Just Days Before Make-or-Break Elections
Exposing the Hidden US History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
Coffee Break: Casey Means MD and MAHA, Health Insurance, Coffee Scat, and Big Brother at the Home of the Free Speech Movement
Economic Questions: The E F Schumacher Question
Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
As Pentagon Takes Secretive Donation for Military Salaries, AFL-CIO Says Pay All Workers Impacted by Shutdown
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Peppermint Soda (1977) Run Time: 1H 40M Bonus: Original Poetry!
How the Chinese Principles of the Tao Explain the Economy
You’ve Just Stolen a Priceless Artifact – What Happens Next?
Tenants Find Strength in Numbers in Fight Against Financialization of Housing
Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Coffee Break: Follow the Money Under Trump’s East Wing Ballroom and Behind Dem Progressive Campaigns
The US Is “Getting a Real Strong Handle” on South America “in a Lot of Ways”, According to Trump
The World Confronts the Genocide Washington Is Trying to Bury
Hogs at the AI Slop Trough, Gulf States, UFC Edition
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Gunboat Stupidity
‘The Stuff of Nightmares’: Hurricane Melissa Makes Catastrophic Landfall in Jamaica
Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World
How Tariffs Hurt the Ones You Love
How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
The Diminishing Returns of ‘Victory’: Empire in the Age of Climate Tipping Points
Coffee Break: ICE Barbie on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict & Corruption
Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt
Nationalism – Good or Bad?
The Stage Is Set For a US-Instigated Security Dilemma Between the Eurasian Rimland & Heartland
Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?
Sudan War: Gold, a Key Port, and Two Armies With No Legitimate Claim
Rage Against the ICE Machine
A Few Thoughts About the Russian End Game in Ukraine and the Risk of Losing the Peace
The Pushback Against Marco Rubio Begins in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Macroeconomic Implications of Extreme Weather Events: Insights from Advanced Economies
Coffee Break: Political Grownups, Bending Time, CDC at Sea, Snakebites, and AI Again
SNAP, the Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program, Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.
Data, Power and Emissions: How AI’s Growth May Slow Down the Green Transition
The Shutdown – And the House’s Inaction – Helps Pave Congress’ Path to Irrelevance
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Faust (1926) Run Time: 1H 46M Plus Halloween Bonuses!!
Medicare Advantage: Fraudulent and Misleading Marketing Lures Seniors into Plans Inferior to Traditional Medicare
Trump’s Deportations Are Causing Farm Labor Issues. He Hasn’t Presented a Viable, Long-Term Solution.
Tracing a Line Between Israeli Pager Attacks and Ukraine Collapse to the Tennessee Munitions Factory Explosion that Killed 16 Workers in an Impoverished Region of the U.S.
Mission Impossible: Why the US Cannot Reverse Its Manufacturing Decline
Coffee Break: MAGA Civil War – America First vs. Israel First
Technology Empires and the Race to Cement Dominance
Wall Street Journal Insults Reader Intelligence, Depicts Lenders as Addressing Loan Risks When That Horse Has Left the Barn and Is in the Next County
How Brazil’s New Digital Payments System Managed to Enrage (and Terrify) Both Wall Street and Silicon Valley
The Lasting Economic Scars of War
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Poseidon Problem
“The Multipolarism of Fools: The BRICS Are Not the Answer”
With Baseless Fraud Claim, White House Says Trump Preparing Anti-Voter Executive Order
The Primary Care Puzzle: Can It Be Solved?
Revolutions in Russia in 1917: February and October
Coffee Break: Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City in a Youthquake
Health Advocates Call for a Federal “Reboot” in Addressing Ultra-Processed Foods
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Shifting Landscape of Trade and Investment
Call Your Congresscritters: OpenAI Laying the Groundwork for Massive Federal Bailout
Trump Looks Likely to Lose at Supreme Court on Challenge to His Assertion of Emergency Tariff Authority. How Much Damage Would That Do to His Pretenses of Power?
Bill Gates Wants to Set the Environmental Agenda Ahead of COP30: It’s Not Surprising
Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change
Fatties and Diabetics Not Welcome! Immigrants With Health Conditions May Be Denied Visas Under New Trump Administration Guidance
The Digital Euro Just Hit a Wall of Resistance
How Neoliberalism Is Digging the Holes of Flagging, Indebted Economies Even Deeper
Coffee Break: Wither Sport, Unwellness, Chimpanzee Metacognition, The Sokal Hoax, and a Political Temblor
Another Shutdown Cost: Skewed and Limited Private Data as Economic Hazard
Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation
What Can Europe Learn From China’s Critical-Tech Innovation Push?
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Confessions of Felix Krull (1958) Run Time: 1H 46M
Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm
Book Excerpt: How Coyotes Found a New Homeland in the East
The E.U. ‘Derisks’ Itself Into Another Disaster
Russia’s Choices as It Brings Ukraine to the Brink with Electricity War, Takes Pokrovsk
Coffee Break: Mamdani’s Battle With Entrenched Power Begins
Who Will End Up Paying for the AI Spending Spree?
Shutdown Has Highlighted Washington’s Retreat From Big Ideas on Health Care
Washington and Tel Aviv Accuse Iran of Planning to Assassinate Israeli Ambassador in Mexico Without Presenting a Shred of Truth
The ‘Supercenter’ Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption − and Waste
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Future of Elite Forces
“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage and Chaos
Why Trump’s 50 Year Mortgage Scheme Is an Even Worse Idea Than You Imagined
The Trans-Caspian Pipeline Is Resurrected as the U.S. Plots a Return to Central Asia
‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
Coffee Break: Senate Dems Throw Teetering Trump a Lifeline
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
Tom Ferguson and Nick French: Red Tech’s Political Power, Its War on Labor and the Environment
Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
Paying for Euroskepticism
Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel
Ever Be Escalating: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
Even Washington’s European Vassal States Are Now Denouncing Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings on the High Seas
MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia
Coffee Break: Unstable Climate-Unstable Economy, Gambling and the Decline of Sport, the Last of the Great Men of Molecular Biology, and SNAP
Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
This Car-Free Neighborhood Was Designed to Revolutionize American Cities
SNAP Is Funded Again. States Still Have to Deal With Trump’s New Eligibility Restrictions.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Whisky (2004) Run Time: 1H 38M
Social Reuse of Seized Assets
“NatSec Democrats” Go to Governors Offices in Preparation for 2028 POTUS Runs 
Yet More AI Bubble Worries, Now on Debt Side, with Wall Street Journal Featuring AI Datacenter Borrowing “Frenzy”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Coffee Break: TACO MIGA Breaks With MAGA Over the Epstein Files
Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
Is the US Trying to Set in Motion a Colour Revolution in Mexico?
Rob Urie: American Decline in Three Parts
Public Money, Private Innovation: How Government Funding Built – and Sustains – America’s Technological Leadership
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Falklands Temptation
Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
“European Nations Have No Choice but to Raise Retirement Ages – Our Case Study Shows Why”
The Making of the MAGA Right
Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing, Challenges Mamdani
Coffee Break: Hasbara Ain’t Cheap, Musk, Ellison, Saudis, All Tapped
Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question
“Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”
Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?
A War Against Children? ADHD Drugs Become DeFacto Gateway for Many to Multi-Medication “Treatments” Despite Dearth of Clinical Evidence for Use
From the Narrative Collapse, a New World Will Emerge: Will It Be Different?
Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution
New Poll Suggests US Public Are Not Buying Trump and Rubio’s Regime Change Narrative for Venezuela
Yet Another Dead-on-Arrival Ukraine Peace Scheme: Leaked 28 Point Plan Predictably Unable to Reconcile Irreconcilable Positions
Sanders Denounces Trump-GOP Healthcare Proposal as ‘Absurd’—and Deadly
Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA
‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
Why Did Britain Stop Making?
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad (1973) Run Time: 1H 44M
Colorado Is Pumping the Brakes on First-Of-Its-Kind AI Regulation to Find a Practical Path Forward
Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
The Poison Pill in the US Peace Plan for Ukraine: Europe Written Into the Outline
“From ‘Mail-Order Brides’ to ‘Passport Bros,’ the International Dating Industry Often Sells Traditional Gender Roles”
Coffee Break: Flailing OpenAI Follows Meta’s Malignant Model
Even the Wall Street Journal’s Editors Have Had It With RFK, Jr.’s Anti-Vax Con Job
AI Hyperscalers Crash the Grid as Big Tech Becomes a Power Trader
Former MI6 Chief Warns of the Security Risks of the UK Government’s Proposed Digital Identity System
Flock Camera Vulnerability: It’s Worse Than You Think
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – RAND Alarms the China Hawks
U.S. Dams, Levees, Stormwater, and Wastewater Systems Get D To D+ Grades, Need Almost $1 Trillion in Upgrades
Will MTG’s Resignation Trigger Other Republican Exits, Ending House Majority Before Midterms?
TurkStream Is in Washington and Brussels’ Crosshairs, But Math to Replace the Russian Gas Doesn’t Add Up
Quelle Surprise! Companies With Market Power Drive Inflation
Coffee Break: Nvidia’s Narrative Breaking Down?
Encountering the Buddha
Heavy Metals Contamination Fears Go Mainstream with Infant Formula and Protein Powders
Systemic Entropy and Power: Explaining the Breakdown of World Order
Thomas Hobbes and His Political Philosophy
How to Stop a Nuclear War — and Why We’re Not Talking About It
The Trump Administration Is Now Directly Intervening in Honduras’ Presidential Elections, Confirming a Region-Wide Trend
Coffee Break: Science and Belief, Working AI, ADHD Update, and Research Support
As US Hunger Rises, Trump Administration’s ‘Efficiency’ Goals Cause Massive Food Waste
The UK Is Cursed: How Finance Destroyed Our Economy
US “R” Us or Tax Sovereignty?
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Import/Export (2007) Run Time 2H 21M
Protestor Confrontation with ICE in New York City Appears to Have Stymied Raid; Is There Any Hope for ICE Opposition?
Why Do We Still Have Poverty?
MAGA Antitrust Is Officially Dead: DOJ Sanctions Price Fixing With Slap on the Wrist Settlement Against Rental Housing Collusion Kingpin RealPage 
Car Industry Woes Intensify as US Consumers Refuse to Eat the Dog Food, China Suffers from Overcapacity
Coffee Break: Personnel and Pardons as Policy in the Trump National Security Regime
The Cloud’s Not Fluffy, It’s a Hot, Loud, Energy-Voracious Factory
Bitcoin, Crypto Plunge Accelerates as Leveraged Players (“Treasuries”) Like Strategy Dump Holdings
The Lies Being Used to Justify the US’ War Against Venezuela (and Latin America in General) Are Unravelling Before Our Eyes
Internet of Beings: The Dream of Digitising Human Bodies for Healthcare (and the Nightmare)
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – How DARPA Lost Its Mojo
Trump Administration Supporting Bayer at Supreme Court Over Monsanto/Roundup Deal, Savaged by Investors for Wealth Destruction in the Name of Executive Preservation
Trump Goes Full Biden, Insists No Inflation, Affordability a Con as Strained Consumers Know Better and Trump’s Polls Sink Further
The Meaning of Freedom in These United States
Is Male Infertility Contributing to Falling Birth Rates?
Coffee Break: Trump Insider Deals Hitting the Rocks?
How Wage Increases Became the Fed’s Red Line
Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a ‘Toxic Lie’ Pushed by Plastics Industry
Blockbuster San Francisco Lawsuit Targets Food Industry Giants Over Ultraprocessed Foods, with Extensive Documentation of Health Damage and Success in Producing Addiction
The Anti-MAGA Economics of the Second Trump Administration
Could an AI Have Suggested that the Earth Is Not at the Centre of the Universe?
Under Kennedy, America’s Health Department Is in the Business of Promoting Kennedy
The Point of No Return for the Warm Water Atlantic Current Is Coming Up Fast
Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become? (Part 2)
Brexit’s Slow‑Burn Hit to the UK Economy
Coffee Break: American Science Shattered
Book Review: Harnessing the Power of Dreams and Nightmares
With UK Politics in Flux, Corbyn’s Your Party May Surprise You Yet
Investigation Reveals How Amazon Is Fleecing Public Schools With ‘Algorithm-Driven Pricing’
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Stalker (1979) Run Time: 2H 41M
The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
Why Has the U.S. Bombed Somalia More than 100 Times This Year? 
Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
What’s the Likelihood of a NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact?
Coffee Break: Informational Force-Feeding Divides and Distracts
President Putin and Prime Minister Modi Share a Future Strategy That’s No Joke for President Trump
Steve Keen Warns Crash of 2026 Will Be Worse Than 2008
The UK Government’s Plan to Resurrect the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) Is the Definition of Financial Insanity
Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Death of Full Spectrum Dominance
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Wordle, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Bubbles
Coffee Break: GOP Lures Jasmine Crockett Into US Senate Primary
The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
Economic Questions: James Tobin’s Transaction Tax
U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
Trump Administration Joins EU in Russian Frozen Asset Madness
Israel Is Acting with Impunity. Is It Overconfident in Trump’s Support?
Doha Forum in Qatar: Another Node on the Grid of the Machine
AI’s Errors May Be Impossible to Eliminate – What That Means for Its Use in Health Care
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
The Empire of Lies Is Once Again Sowing Chaos In Its Own “Back Yard”
Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear Over Frozen Assets; Will the EU Be Hoist on the Investor-State Settlement Disputes (ISDS) Petard?
Coffee Break: Science Update, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Political Power and Profitable Trades in the US Congress
What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sweet Movie (1974) Run Time: 1H 38M
Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown 
Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units
Coffee Break: Trump Loses in Indiana as the MAGA Civil War Rages On
Why Housing Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon
Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
Israel Is Trying to Turn the Tide of Opposition (to Its Genocidal Proclivities) in Latin America
Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
The EU’s New Policy Towards Russia’s Seized Assets Isn’t About Helping Ukraine
Is AI Creating Monsters?
What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
The Bondi Strike: Who Will Control the Narrative?
Coffee Break: MAGA’s Messaging Meltdown Snags Susie Wiles, Kash Patel’s FBI
Poor Health Weakens Support for Fairer Healthcare
What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
We Are Nineteen Years Old
“Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”
‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting
Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious
“The Truth Behind Trump’s Aggressive Venezuela Strategy”
Shining a Light on How Exxon Mobil Indirectly Funds Think Tank “Experts” Calling for Regime-Change War in Venezuela
Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines
Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
Michael Hudson: Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony
These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: An Ideal Husband (1969) Run Time: 1H 22M Bonus: Woo!
Some Perhaps Not Fully Anticipated Effects of Increased AI Use: Evidence Doubts, Fraud and Fraud Containment
Pax Germanica 
Improving Indoor Air Quality Might Save Your Life
Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
Coffee Break: Democrats Looking to Coast on Anti-Trump Sentiment
Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence
US (So Far) Fails to Capture Third Venezuela Tanker. What Does the US Do to Restore Its Manhood? Allow Privateers via Letters of Marque?
Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs As They Escalate Their Assault on Online Privacy and Anonymity
Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Unfortunate Philippines
Merry Christmas and Holiday Schedule
Behind the USDA’s Regenerative Rhetoric Lurks Business as Usual
John Helmer: Merz’s War Against Russia Is Splitting the Europeans – Greek Role in Tanker Attack Exposed
What World Was Jesus Born Into? A Historian Describes the Turbulent Times of the Real Nativity
Coffee Break: Going Beyond the MSM Name-Calling Narrative at TPUSA
Why the Ukraine Electric War Has Been Failing Until Now
Satyajit Das: The Shadow of Financial Instability
Elections in Venezuela and Honduras: Two Sides of the Same Coin — Minted in Washington
Is Your Dog or Cat Getting Old? These Simple Gestures Could Help Them Live Longer and Happier Lives
US Launches Christmas Strikes on Nigeria—the 9th Country Bombed by Trump
Coffee Break: Boxing Day Miscellany
Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Drops to Lowest Since 1994
Michael Hudson: The Economic Unravelling of the Political West
Did Israel’s Rivalry With Turkiye Play A Major Role In Its Recognition Of Somaliland?
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sholay (1975) Run Time: 3H 10M Bonus Cinema Documentary
Progressive Educator Myles Horton’s Lessons for Fighting for Social Justice Today
American Pirates and the Coming Militarization of Commercial Shipping 
Coffee Break: ICE, Antifa, and the Ever Expanding Definition of Terrorism
How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country from Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship!
Halliburton Files ISDS Suit Against Venezuela for Damages Resulting from… US Sanctions on Venezuela
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Militarism Comes Home
AI and Systemic Risk
A Few Notes on Progress in Gene Therapy
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