Wall Street’s Deregulation Agenda Will Cost Everyday Americans Everything
Trump administration financial deregulation, eliminating services and eviscerating oversight and enforcement, sets people up for harm
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US Medical Care Set to Fracture Over MAHA as States and Physicians Groups Break With Administration Recommendations, Plan to Fund Own Research
How an informational civil war is starting in the wake of MAHA.
Read more...Small Nuclear Reactors Will Not Save The Day
Debunking small nuclear reactor hype.
Read more...Trump’s Chabahar Sanctions Waiver Revocation & Bagram Airbase Talk Pile Pressure on India
The US decided that India’s rise as a Great Power must be derailed and it’ll pursue this by all possible means.
Read more...Links 9/23/2025
The Karl Marx Question
Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?
Read more...War Signals, Quiet Channels, and Venezuela’s Discounted Barrels
An analyst in Caracas tries to make sense of Trump’s aggression against Venezuela.
Read more...“BRICS Are the New Defenders of Free Trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank” and Support Genocide by Continuing to Trade with Israel
Discussions of how BRICS is not living up to its lofty promises and is on the path to supporting neoliberalism and hegemony in new clothes
Read more...Proof of AI Garbage In, Garbage Out: Incorrect Results Traced to Reddit and Quora
As bad as you thought AI was, it’s worse.
Read more...The Villa of Reduced Circumstances is still facing tough times, but the CEO (that is me) and the Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Felines (that is also me when I have to negotiate with the neighborhood cats), are in strong agreement that we can afford to give $5 to Naked Capitalism. Another Anon Aloha […]
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The Dollar: Ripples Presaging a Financial Tsunami
A detailed analysis of the poor prospects for dollar hegemony and the forces that could trigger a sharp unwind.
Read more...The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate
Poland-Ukraine frictions are at odds with some possible end-of-Ukraine-conflict schemes.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture
How Trump’s policies are destroying key elements of U.S. economic prosperity, with agriculture as a canary in the coal mine.
Read more...Trump Administration, Jimmy Kimmel, and Media Brownshirting
Like it or not, the FCC had ABC and Disney completely over barrel in the Jimmy Kimmel ouster.
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