Sunday, July 27, 2025
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How Private Equity Bankrupted Seven Major Grocery Chains for Fun and Profit
Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Man Whose Mexico Beach House Was One of Last Standing After Hurricane Michael Calls Out Climate Denier Politicians
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Tom Engelhardt: The Unhappy 17th Anniversary of the Afghan War
Looking back on 17 counterproductive years in Afghanistan.
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Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes
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.
Jeff Epstein: Naked Capitalism Led Me to MMT, and Its Commentariat Made Me a Better Writer
How Naked Capitalism and its readers provided political education.
Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
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.
Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Why Naked Capitalism is your weapon against Larry Summers.
Marshall Auerback: The Democrats’ Globalization Dilemma
It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Italy’s Debt Crisis Intensifies
Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
