Monthly Archives: September 2025

September 30, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Stopping START
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• The Rev Kev: Naked Capitalism – Bringing You Next Year’s News Today
  by Yves Smith 11:06 am

• Trump’s Desire to Seize Bagram Airfield Will End in Disaster
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/30/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Censorship, Surveillance, and Spin: EU, UK, and Ukraine Try to Drive the Narrative
  by Nat Wilson Turner 6:54 am

• Tony Blair and Larry Ellison Make One HELL of a Partnership
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Quelle Surprise! Advanced Nations Stymie Governance Reforms at World Bank Intended to Increase Influence of Global Majority
  by Yves Smith 5:49 am

September 29, 2025

• Coffee Break: Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Bravo! Met Our Second Goal, On to Our Third: Supporting the New Coffee Break/Sunday Movie Feature
  by Yves Smith 1:49 pm

• Announcing Our 2025 “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
  by Yves Smith 11:48 am

• Thomas Neuburger: Naked Capitalism – Helping Navigate the Times That Try Men’s Souls
  by Yves Smith 11:08 am

• Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 9/29/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Patrick Baab on Europe’s March to War with Russia
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Trump’s Dip Into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – In Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

September 28, 2025

• Haig Hovaness: Why Naked Capitalism Matters
  by Haig Hovaness 11:10 am

• Links 9/28/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Hopscotch (1980) Run Time: 1H 45M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

September 27, 2025

• Curro Jimenez: Naked Capitalism – Your Escape from Propaganda
  by Yves Smith 11:11 am

• Links 9/27/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Milton Friedman Question
  by Yves Smith 4:57 am

• The Warning Signs Are Clear: We’re Heading Toward a Digital Crisis
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• Bravo! Met First Goal Quickly, Now on to the Second: Supporting the Commentariat
  by Yves Smith 12:00 am

September 26, 2025

• Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Hunting for the Truth
  by Yves Smith 11:15 am

• What Slowdown? Q2 GDP Growth Revised Up to Hot Zone of 3.8%, Stronger Consumer Spending & Private Fixed Investment
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/26/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Washington’s Debt Trap Diplomacy and Election Meddling in Argentina
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Trump Again Applies His Tariff Wrecking Ball to US Citizens and Businesses with 100% Levy on Imported Patented Drugs, 25% on Imported Trucks, 30% to 50% on Furnishings
  by Yves Smith 6:43 am

• Masters and Minions and Muppets, Oh My!
  by Yves Smith 4:15 am

September 25, 2025

• From Al-Qaeda to Antifa: “Phantom Terror” Turned Inward and the Rise of a New State
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Naked Capitalism Fundraiser 2025: Finding High Ground as the Tsunami Rolls In
  by Yves Smith 12:14 pm

• Fundraiser 2025: What We Did for You in the Past Year
  by Yves Smith 12:14 pm

• AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/25/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Satyajit Das: Stablecoins – Invention Looking For A Problem?
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• NATO Might Try to Down Russian Jets on The False Pretext That They Violated Its Airspace
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• How the First Amendment Protects Americans’ Speech − and How It Does Not
  by Yves Smith 3:44 am

September 24, 2025

• Coffee Break: Palantir, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and the Antichrist
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Wall Street’s Deregulation Agenda Will Cost Everyday Americans Everything
  by Yves Smith 9:57 am

• Links 9/24/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Politics, Government, and Science During Pandemic Times
  by KLG 6:50 am

• US Medical Care Set to Fracture Over MAHA as States and Physicians Groups Break With Administration Recommendations, Plan to Fund Own Research
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Small Nuclear Reactors Will Not Save The Day
  by Yves Smith 5:40 am

September 23, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Laser Weapons
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Trump’s Chabahar Sanctions Waiver Revocation & Bagram Airbase Talk Pile Pressure on India
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/23/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Quelle Surprise: UK’s Keir Starmer Government Goes All In On Digital Identity
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• The Karl Marx Question
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• War Signals, Quiet Channels, and Venezuela’s Discounted Barrels
  by Yves Smith 4:55 am

September 22, 2025

• Coffee Break: Impunity, Incompetence, and Maybe Insight Into How Trump Works
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work? 
  by Conor Gallagher 9:55 am

• Links 9/22/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• “BRICS Are the New Defenders of Free Trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank” and Supporting Genocide by Continuing to Trade with Israel
  by Yves Smith 5:22 am

• Proof of AI Garbage In, Garbage Out: Incorrect Results Traced to Reddit and Quora
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

September 21, 2025

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  by Yves Smith 1:51 pm

• Links 9/21/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Shooting (1966) Run Time 1H 21M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• A Walk Across Alaska’s Arctic Sea Ice Brings to Life the Losses That Appear in Climate Data
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

September 20, 2025

• Links 9/20/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• The Dollar: Ripples Presaging a Financial Tsunami
  by Yves Smith 6:00 am

• The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

September 19, 2025

• Coffee Break: The Next Surgeon General, Gene Therapy, Ozone Hole Closes, Daylight Saving Time, and American Socialism
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Michael Hudson: Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/19/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• US Expands Scope of Its (Fake) War on Drug Cartels to Colombia; Colombia Responds By Threatening to Stop Buying US Weapons
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Trump Administration, Jimmy Kimmel, and Media Brownshirting
  by Yves Smith 3:08 am

• AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health
  by Yves Smith 12:59 am

September 18, 2025

• Israel’s Attack on Qatar Shows What Gulf States Have Yet to Grasp
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Trump UK State Visit Demonstrates That the Power Elite Has Drawn Up the Drawbridge Over Safety Fears
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/18/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Quelle Surprise! CEOs Overwhelmingly Negative on Trump’s Economic Policies as Shallow Fed Rate Cut Confirms Stagflation Worries
  by Yves Smith 4:45 am

• Michael Hudson: Who Writes the New Rules as Power Shifts Away from the US?
  by Yves Smith 4:16 am

• Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US
  by Yves Smith 12:39 am

September 17, 2025

• Coffee Break: Competence, Corruption and Control Limit Administrative Ambition
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/17/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Netanyahu Depicts Grim Economic Future for Israel, Need to Become an Autarky, “Super Sparta” Due to Isolation; Are There More Meanings?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Are Israel and Türkiye on a Collision Course or Parallel Tracks? 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Thomas Neuburger: We’ve Just Crowned a King. What Next?
  by Yves Smith 3:58 am

September 16, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Plinking Narcos
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Trump to Give CEOs Even More Power Versus Investors Via Ending Quarterly Reporting, Other Anti-Transparency Measures
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/16/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• It Finally Happens: Spain Rebels Against Israel and Its Genocide in Gaza
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• ‘Incredible Corruption’: Blockbuster Report on Trump Crypto Grift Leaves Observers Stunned
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• U.S. Automakers Navigate Rising Metal Costs and Supply Woes
  by Yves Smith 4:51 am

September 15, 2025

• Coffee Break: Doomscrolling the Influencer Apocalypse
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Despite Recent “Pin the Tail on the European Donkey” Moves, Trump Unlikely to Escape Accusation of Losing Ukraine War
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/15/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• US Explores Its Options for Destabilization in Georgia 
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• China Continues Its Steady Expansion Into Central Asia On The Sidelines Of Big Summits
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Hoisted from Comments: “Nuclear Waste Is a Myth the US Promoted….”
  by Yves Smith 12:36 am

September 14, 2025

• Links 9/14/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Uncle Vanya (1970) Run Time: 1H 42M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• “The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid”
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

September 13, 2025

• Links 9/13/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• How Student Loans Became America’s Financial Catastrophe
  by Yves Smith 5:25 am

• Satyajit Das: On Reading – Textual Pleasures
  by Yves Smith 5:05 am

September 12, 2025

• Coffee Break: Vaccine “Side Effects,” Outdated Theory of Disease, “Life” on Mars, and More on Liberalism
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to AI Chatbots?
  by Yves Smith 10:00 am

• Links 9/12/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• As US’ Case Against Venezuela Unravels, Trump Administration Escalates Its War Footing Anyway
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• “Inflaming Tensions, Trump Threatens Political Left With Retribution Over Killing of Charlie Kirk”
  by Yves Smith 2:49 am

• America’s Grid is Nearing Its Breaking Point
  by Yves Smith 1:15 am

September 11, 2025

• If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Milton Friedman: From Modern Monetary Theory to Monetarism
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Major New Paper in Nature: Climate Change Increase; Intensity and Frequency of Heatwaves; 1/4 “Virtually Impossible” Otherwise; “Carbon Majors” Accounted for Half of Intensity Increase
  by Yves Smith 9:39 am

• Links 9/11/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Today’s Political Nihilism: NYC Mayor’s Race as a Case Study
  by Yves Smith 4:30 am

• Michael Hudson: Trump’s Economic War Against Europe, Korea and Japan
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

September 10, 2025

• Coffee Break: Silicon Valley Ideologies as a Lens for Viewing Current Events
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• MAHA Report Draws Fire as Critics Say Corporate Pressure Trumps Public Health
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/10/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Liberalism as a Way of Life in the Twenty-first Century?
  by KLG 6:50 am

• Poland to Invoke NATO Article 4 Over Russian Drones in Its Airspace
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Trump Followers Promote Authoritarian, Hostile-to-Downtrodden Version of Christianity
  by Yves Smith 12:47 am

September 9, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Dragon’s Teeth
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• Giorgio Armani: Farewell to the Visionary Designer/Businessman Who Lifted Italy into Fashion Leadership
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/9/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Spain Becomes Fourth EU Country to Announce Sanctions Against Israel: Beginning of a Trend?
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• More Trump Administration Circular Firing Squad with Investor-Spooking ICE Raid on Hyundai-LG Plant
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

• Bond Markets Do Not Rule – Governments Do
  by Yves Smith 1:54 am

September 8, 2025

• Coffee Break: Trump’s Imperial Boomerang Gets Different Reactions in Chicago, D.C.
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• “I’ve Seen States Collapse; Now I See It Happening Here”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/8/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Is Europe Preparing for War Against Russia or Against Own Populations?
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Debate Over Conflicts of Interest at Top Pediatrics Association: What About Corruption in Medicine Generally? And With RFK Jr.’s MAHA Brand?
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Stablecoins Could Crash Our Economy
  by Conor Gallagher 4:00 am

September 7, 2025

• Links 9/7/2025
  by Haig Hovaness 6:55 am

• The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Last Days Of Patton (1986) Run Time: 2H 26M
  by semper loquitur 6:30 am

• “You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

September 6, 2025

• Links 9/6/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: SCO and BRICS 2025
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

• The Power of Siberia 2 Pipeline Deal Signifies the Failure of Trump’s Eurasian Grand Strategy
  by Yves Smith 1:31 am

September 5, 2025

• Coffee Break: Make Polio Great Again, CDC, Institutions and Civilization, and How Animals Emerged
  by KLG 2:00 pm

• The British Media Again Ignores the Corbyn Insurgency
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/5/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• The US Is Looking to Merge Two Failed Wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination
  by Yves Smith 3:38 am

September 4, 2025

• The Alliance Among Washington, Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley
  by Curro Jimenez 2:00 pm

• Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
  by Yves Smith 10:28 am

• Links 9/4/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson: Eurasian World Order – New Global Governance
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• “At CDC, Worries Mount That Agency Has Taken Anti-Science Turn”
  by Yves Smith 1:54 am

• Charter Cities Attempting to Create a Libertarian Paradise
  by Yves Smith 12:54 am

September 3, 2025

• Coffee Break: Trump Family Grab Their Share of the Crypto, Gaza Take
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Tariffs and US Dollar Depreciations: Not So Surprising After All
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/3/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• What Happens as Trump’s Losses Mount?
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• U.S. Utilities Put in a No-Win Position by Phantom Data Centers
  by Yves Smith 1:38 am

September 2, 2025

• Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Two Faces of Palantir
  by Haig Hovaness 2:00 pm

• James Galbraith: Crash in Top Economist Hiring Contradicts Elite-Favoring “Skill Biased Technical Change” Theory
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 9/2/2025
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• UK Consumer Study Sounds Alarm About Security Risks of Mobile Wallets
  by Nick Corbishley 6:45 am

• Trump’s Appellate Court Tariff Loss: It Isn’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
  by Yves Smith 6:14 am

• The Destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  by Yves Smith 1:10 am

September 1, 2025

• Coffee Break: Gavin Newsom Weaponizes ‘Dark Woke’ Cringe Against Trump
  by Nat Wilson Turner 2:00 pm

• Links 9/1/2025
  by Conor Gallagher 6:55 am

• Farcical Visions of Competitiveness in the EU
  by Conor Gallagher 6:00 am

• Book Review: This Is Your Brain On Nature
  by Conor Gallagher 5:00 am

• Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says”
  by Yves Smith 2:06 am