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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – War with Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/coffee-break-armed-madhous-war-with-iran.html

Published: April 22, 2025 18:00

The 9/11 attack on the U.S. triggered a series of disastrous wars in the Mideast in which the U.S. pursued the goals of overthrowing despots, securing oil supplies, and removing any real or potential military threats to Israel. The result was a large…

Links 4/22/2025

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/links-4-22-2025.html

Published: April 22, 2025 10:55

As Appetite for War and Repression Rise in the New Western (Dis-)Order, Palantir Is Making a Killing

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/keir-starmers-bromance-with-silicon-valleys-darkest-company-palantir.html

Published: April 22, 2025 10:45

Silicon Valley's darkest and most secretive unicorn "has finally made it big". But at what cost to the rest of us?

Will the EU Join the Economic War Against China?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/will-the-eu-join-the-economic-war-against-china.html

Published: April 22, 2025 10:00

Should Brussels join in, the economic fallout from Project Ukraine could seem quaint, and it could contribute to shortages in the US.

Several Hundred Workers Who Keep Invasive Pests Out of the US Accept Trump’s Buyouts

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/several-hundred-workers-who-keep-invasive-pests-out-of-the-us-accept-trumps-buyouts.html

Published: April 22, 2025 09:00

As many as 700 USDA workers on the frontlines of pest detection and crop protection have accepted deferred resignation offers. Their departure could slow inspections, delay outbreak response and leave the nation’s crops exposed to invasive species — which…

Satyajit Das: On Cinema –Surviving Childhood

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/satyajit-das-on-cinema-surviving-childhood.html

Published: April 22, 2025 06:40

A look at some prime cinematic treatments on the coming of age, not the treacley or heroic sort, but nuanced portraits.

Coffee Break: Across the Pond Where Stupidity Replaces Sound Policy

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/stupidity.html

Published: April 21, 2025 18:00

More businesses than ever are closing down as they just can’t afford the current taxes, which are the highest on record.

Links 4/21/2025

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Published: April 21, 2025 10:55

How Trump Deportations Fit Into War Against American Workers

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-deportations-are-not-about-strengthening-american-labor-but-part-of-the-effort-to-decimate-it.html

Published: April 21, 2025 10:00

Rather than cracking down on employers exploiting immigrant labor, we’re getting an assault on unions and rendition of immigrant activist students. And an increase in H1 and H2s to further drive down wages and worker protections is likely coming.

Reform Backers Are Importing the US’s ‘Big Money’ Playbook to UK Politics

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/reform-backers-are-importing-the-uss-big-money-playbook-to-uk-politics.html

Published: April 21, 2025 09:00

Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk.

Before Banks: Historical Lessons for Rethinking Credit

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/before-banks-historical-lessons-for-rethinking-credit.html

Published: April 21, 2025 04:21

The era before modern banking took off featured flexible, highly personal credit arrangements, in some ways better than what we have now.

Links 4/20/2025

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Published: April 20, 2025 10:55

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: M (1931) Run Time 1h29m

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/the-sunday-morning-movie-presents-m-1931-run-time-1h29m.html

Published: April 20, 2025 10:30

The Sunday Morning Movie presents M (1931) A classic b&w crime drama set in 1930's Germany, it was director Fritz Lang's magnum opus.

Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/scientists-found-a-potential-sign-of-life-on-a-distant-planet-an-astronomer-explains-why-many-are-still-skeptical.html

Published: April 20, 2025 09:00

Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.

Links 4/19/2025

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Published: April 19, 2025 10:55

Trump and Rubio Signal US on Verge of Halting Ukraine Peace Negotiations

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-and-rubio-signal-us-on-verge-of-halting-ukraine-peace-negotiations.html

Published: April 19, 2025 10:52

As we had predicted from early on, the Ukraine peact talks are failing. Trump is threatening to pull the plug.

Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/come-gimme-why-do-we-shrug-when-apes-cross-the-language-barrier.html

Published: April 19, 2025 04:25

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/is-trump-about-to-end-democracy-in-the-usa.html

Published: April 18, 2025 13:55

Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border

Links 4/18/2025

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Published: April 18, 2025 10:55

Your Face = Your Passport: The Hi-Tech, Dystopian Future of International Travel

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/bye-bye-passport-the-hi-tech-ultra-efficient-dystopian-future-of-international-travel.html

Published: April 18, 2025 10:45

"E-gates... open the possibility of harvesting the travel data and biometrics of the population across our lifetimes."

Trump Makes Presumed Empty but Loud Threat to Fire Fed Chair Powell, Showing that Trump Will Continue to Wreck Markets and the Economy to Prove His Manhood

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-makes-presumed-empty-but-loud-threat-to-fire-fed-chair-powell-showing-that-trump-will-continue-to-wreck-markets-and-the-economy-to-prove-his-manhood.html

Published: April 18, 2025 09:55

Trump is now taking on Fed chair Powell over Powell's refusal to cut rates to bail Trump out of the economic messes he created.

Tariffs, the Dollar, and Equities: High-Frequency Evidence from the Liberation Day Announcement

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/tariffs-the-dollar-and-equities-high-frequency-evidence-from-the-liberation-day-announcement.html

Published: April 18, 2025 07:03

Sales of US equities by foreign owners played a meaningful role in the falll of the dollar after the Trump tariff rampage began.

Trump Back on Track to Failed Iran Negotiations and Likely War

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-back-on-track-to-failed-iran-negotiations-and-likely-war.html

Published: April 17, 2025 14:19

After only one US exchange with Iran, new noises from Witkoff and others show the US upping its demands to a level not acceptable to Iran

Links 4/17/2025

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/links-4-17-2025.html

Published: April 17, 2025 10:55

‘Only Hellfire’: Israel Says Lifesaving Aid, Troop Withdrawal Off the Table for Gaza

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/only-hellfire-israel-says-lifesaving-aid-troop-withdrawal-off-the-table-for-gaza.html

Published: April 17, 2025 10:54

Israel defense ministers are chuffed about their genocide and and war crimes, now via starvation.

Trump’s Tariffs Just Torched His Own Energy Agenda

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trumps-tariffs-just-torched-his-own-energy-agenda.html

Published: April 17, 2025 10:07

How Trump tariffs are whacking shale development and in turn, Trump's prized energy dominace strategy.

‘You Don’t Need a Tariff, You Need a Revolution’

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/you-dont-need-a-tariff-you-need-a-revolution.html

Published: April 17, 2025 07:01

Chinese point out that Americans are exploited by oligarchs. But the tariffs, like it or not, are part of a radical right counter-revolution.

More on DOGE’s Fraud and Destruction

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html

Published: April 16, 2025 14:34

An update on DOGE's rampage through government functions.

Links 4/16/2025

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Published: April 16, 2025 10:55

Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/the-u-s-burn-it-all-down-strategy.html

Published: April 16, 2025 10:00

The U.S. goes all in on the burn-it-all-down strategy.

Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/who-will-pay-the-highest-price-for-trumps-postal-service-privatization-push.html

Published: April 16, 2025 07:11

"Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible."

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Space War

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-4-15-2025.html

Published: April 15, 2025 18:00

Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the dangers of militarizing space