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Looking back on 17 counterproductive years in Afghanistan.

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Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.

How Naked Capitalism and its readers provided political education.

This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of  erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.

Why Naked Capitalism is your weapon against Larry Summers.

It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.

Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.

Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, aircraft imports, Booker, Sanders, Clinton, Democrat consultants attack nurses, home sales, apparel, Mr. Market in his happy space, Uwe Reinhardt, Teamster contract, forgotten suffragettes, law and economics, the Makerphone

Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?

Naked Capitalism got the last crisis right and why it will probably have the opportunity to get the next crisis right.