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Naked Capitalism
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[l] at 4/30/25 4:00am
A fine gift for someone you hate. 

[Category: Garrulous insolence, New McCarthyism, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Russia, Surveillance state]

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[l] at 4/29/25 11:46pm
The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science]

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[l] at 4/29/25 12:00pm
On April 22, unknown terrorists attacked tourists in the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam, India, killing 25 of them. The attackers reportedly segregated the victims based on religion before executing Hindus. Like earlier terror strikes, such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the 2016 Uri attack, and the 2019 Pulwama-Balakot crisis, the []

[Category: Coffee Break]

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[l] at 4/29/25 7:00am
As the system comes back online and attention turns to the possible cause(s) of one of Europe's largest peacetime blackouts, one thing is clear: without cash, the chaos would have been far worse. 

[Category: Guest Post]

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[l] at 4/29/25 7:00am
As the system comes back online and attention turns to the possible cause(s) of one of Europe's largest peacetime blackouts, one thing is clear: without cash, the chaos would have been far worse. 

[Category: Guest Post]

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[l] at 4/29/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 4/29/25 4:00am
Bombs fall on Yemen. Bombs fall on Somalia. The US considers recognizing Somaliland in desperate attempt to dominate Red Sea. 

[Category: Africa, China, Globalization, Middle East]

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[l] at 4/29/25 3:00am
Trump won’t change, but his foes must, argues Norman Solomon. 

[Category: Politics, Social policy, Social values]

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[l] at 4/29/25 2:00am
Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.

[Category: Africa, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization]

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[l] at 4/28/25 12:00pm
The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.

[Category: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Europe]

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[l] at 4/28/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 4/28/25 3:00am
Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions

[Category: China, Energy markets, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Middle East, Russia]

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[l] at 4/28/25 2:00am
More than 300 million people rely on the Indus River Basin for their survival. The treaty governing its use is falling apart.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, India]

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[l] at 4/27/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 4/27/25 4:30am
The Sunday Morning Movies presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) A fine example of a Spaghetti Western in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

[Category: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie]

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[l] at 4/27/25 3:00am
Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.

[Category: Environment, Global warming, Social values, Technology and innovation]

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[l] at 4/26/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 4/25/25 10:45pm
What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes]

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[l] at 4/25/25 10:21pm
An in-depth look at pressure campaigns against scholars.

[Category: Banana republic, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social policy]

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[l] at 4/25/25 12:00pm
As someone who has spent most of his working life as a scientific worker and later as an academic scientist, graduate supervisor, teacher, grant reviewer, and administrator, the current devastation being visited upon my colleagues and their institutions is sickening.  I have never thought my work was more useful or more important than anyone else’s.  []

[Category: Coffee Break, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method, Social policy]

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[l] at 4/25/25 7:55am
How internet archives are thwarting the reactionary campaign to rewrite history and censor inconvenient information and ideas.

[Category: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values]

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