The West uses common, minor, and likely accidental damage to a few submarine cables to further militarize the Baltic Sea and harass the “shadow fleet.”

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23.01.2025

Close to 30 Million Americans Face Limited Water Supplies, Government Report Finds | naked capitalism

Struggles over water use and cost are set to intensify as usage outstrips supplies.

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23.01.2025

Links 1/22/2025 | naked capitalism

Our filibustering daily links: cat heat survivor, US radon risk, US public health messaging goes dark, Xi-Putin call, Israel West Bank attacks, Romaina elections row, Scholz bets on Russia war, Prez pardons freakout, no immigration raids yet, crpto upset over Trump coin, $500 billion AI funding scam,

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23.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/22/2025 | naked capitalism

Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump's executive orders; Trump and AI; Oh, Elon

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23.01.2025

How Far Will Trump Get With Shock and Awe? | naked capitalism

Some of Trump's first day initiatives will run into a buzz saw of legal opposition, but others on the economic warfare front seem to pack a punch.

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22.01.2025

Links 1/21/2025 | naked capitalism

Our racous daily links: medieval spies, Topol v. red meat, US v. China rare earth clampdown, more France dissing in Africa, Starmer in a panic? Houthis still attacking Israel shipping, Turkiye mixing it up, Trump exec order deluge, AI designing chips, Musk reneges on bet, worries re uppity plebes

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22.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/21/2025 | naked capitalism

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; January 6 pardons; DOGE Executive order; Improving surgical masks (many methods) ~

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22.01.2025

Four Lawsuits Targeting DOGE Filed Immediately After Trump Swearing In Demand Compliance with FACA, Other Laws | naked capitalism

DOGE is dodgy! Who'd have thunk it? Four fast-off-the-block filings seek to bring it to heel.

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22.01.2025

How Los Angeles Can Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses | naked capitalism

Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.

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22.01.2025

Cold War 2.0 in Mexico: US and Russian Embassies Lock Horns Over International Study Programs | naked capitalism

The German embassy also joined the pile-on, with slapstick consequences.

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22.01.2025

How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism | naked capitalism

To discuss: "Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet."

Naked Capitalism

21.01.2025

There’s No Growth, so What Should Labour Do? | naked capitalism

Labour's dilemma — which has parallels in other countries — leads to vague aspirations that are almost meaningless, and probably undeliverable.

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21.01.2025

Los Angeles Fires: A Guide for Making Sure Your Home Insurer Pays What It Owes | naked capitalism

A detailed recap of the strong California laws requiring home insurers to provide prompt relief and mandated benefits in official emergencies

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21.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/20/2025 | naked capitalism

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Democrats take their farewells; DOGE commissars; A web beyond the platforms ~

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21.01.2025

For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck | naked capitalism

Another indictment of America's claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly

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21.01.2025

The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance | naked capitalism

A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly "socialized"

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21.01.2025

Trump Shreds Emoluments Clause with New Memecoin while Norms Fairy Weeps (and Melania Joins the Fun) | naked capitalism

Even tech bros are aghast.

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20.01.2025

David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture | naked capitalism

Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.

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20.01.2025

What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like? | naked capitalism

The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.

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19.01.2025

Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada | naked capitalism

Michael Hudson on the method in Trump's seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.

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19.01.2025

Links 1/18/2025 | naked capitalism

Our piquant daily links: prayer for mental health? female cancer rates up, TikTok loses Supremes case, Starmer silly Ukraine deal, Russia + India security pact, Trump to launch Chicago deportation raids, VT tracks disapproved pregnant women, Mr. Market getting nervous, AI seduction

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19.01.2025

Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex? | naked capitalism

On Biden's self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.

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18.01.2025

New York Judge Loretta Preska Just Declared Open Season on Argentina's Gold Reserves | naked capitalism

The question is: where is the gold?

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18.01.2025

Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk 'Planetary Insolvency' as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin | naked capitalism

A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.

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18.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2025 | naked capitalism

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts that Lambert does not like; Faiz Shakir throws his hat in the DNC ring; Ancient Britain a matriarchal society?~

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18.01.2025

Links 1/17/2025 | naked capitalism

Our playful daily links

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18.01.2025

mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down | naked capitalism

Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.

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18.01.2025

Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration | naked capitalism

Quelle surprise! Historically, high levels of immigration in the US led to more union formation.

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17.01.2025

James Galbraith: How the Fed Became Less Powerful Despite Weakened Congressional Oversight | naked capitalism

Fifty years ago the actions of the Fed mattered. Today, as far the aggregate measures of America's domestic economy go, they do not.

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17.01.2025

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’ | naked capitalism

Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones

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17.01.2025

Gaza Ceasefire Deal Still Not Approved by Knesset. And Why Should the World Trust Israel to Comply if So? | naked capitalism

Sadly Netanyahu is trying to slip the noose of the much-ballyhooed Gaza ceasefire deal and may succeed.

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17.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2025 | naked capitalism

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Treasury nominee Bessent under fire? RedNote's moment to pass? Infantry in battle ~

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17.01.2025

Links 1/16/2024 | naked capitalism

Our courageous daliy links

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16.01.2025

Make America Healthy Again: Is MAHA a Trope or a Movement? | naked capitalism

A look at MAHA's recommendations, per the Casey Means book Good Energy, and why they are an affluent-focused, neoliberal prescription.

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16.01.2025

A Forgotten Farming Technique Is Making a Big Comeback – Here’s Why | naked capitalism

How a traditional farming method, trap crops, is coming back into fashion as climate change works to the advantage of many pests.

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16.01.2025

U.S. Sanctions on China’s Oil Firms Are Just the Beginning Under Trump | naked capitalism

A discussion of some moves Trump is expected to take to try to contain China, starting with energy and avoiding use of the dollar.

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16.01.2025

Bluesky: Exit, Voice, and Platform Loyalty | naked capitalism

On some of the subtler forms of Bluesky censorship.

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16.01.2025

Trump’s HUD Secretary and Our Reverse Robin Hood Housing System | naked capitalism

A Trump-Turner housing agenda appears destined to continue the worst aspects of the US approach to affordable housing.

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16.01.2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/15/2025 | naked capitalism

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Warren v. Hegseth, Ernst v. Hegseth; Biden-installed roadblocks to Schedule F; Democrat leadership crisis; RedNote's cat tax</a

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Knowing Less About AI Makes People More Open to Having It in Their Lives – New Research | naked capitalism

NATO as the Fly in Russia’s Baltic Sea Soup | naked capitalism

Close to 30 Million Americans Face Limited Water Supplies, Government Report Finds | naked capitalism

Links 1/22/2025 | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/22/2025 | naked capitalism

How Far Will Trump Get With Shock and Awe? | naked capitalism

Links 1/21/2025 | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/21/2025 | naked capitalism

Four Lawsuits Targeting DOGE Filed Immediately After Trump Swearing In Demand Compliance with FACA, Other Laws | naked capitalism

How Los Angeles Can Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses | naked capitalism

Cold War 2.0 in Mexico: US and Russian Embassies Lock Horns Over International Study Programs | naked capitalism

How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism | naked capitalism

There’s No Growth, so What Should Labour Do? | naked capitalism

Los Angeles Fires: A Guide for Making Sure Your Home Insurer Pays What It Owes | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/20/2025 | naked capitalism

For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck | naked capitalism

The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance | naked capitalism

Trump Shreds Emoluments Clause with New Memecoin while Norms Fairy Weeps (and Melania Joins the Fun) | naked capitalism

David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture | naked capitalism

What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like? | naked capitalism

Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada | naked capitalism

Links 1/18/2025 | naked capitalism

Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex? | naked capitalism

New York Judge Loretta Preska Just Declared Open Season on Argentina's Gold Reserves | naked capitalism

Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk 'Planetary Insolvency' as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2025 | naked capitalism

Links 1/17/2025 | naked capitalism

mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down | naked capitalism

Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration | naked capitalism

James Galbraith: How the Fed Became Less Powerful Despite Weakened Congressional Oversight | naked capitalism

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’ | naked capitalism

Gaza Ceasefire Deal Still Not Approved by Knesset. And Why Should the World Trust Israel to Comply if So? | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2025 | naked capitalism

Links 1/16/2024 | naked capitalism

Make America Healthy Again: Is MAHA a Trope or a Movement? | naked capitalism

A Forgotten Farming Technique Is Making a Big Comeback – Here’s Why | naked capitalism

U.S. Sanctions on China’s Oil Firms Are Just the Beginning Under Trump | naked capitalism

Bluesky: Exit, Voice, and Platform Loyalty | naked capitalism

Trump’s HUD Secretary and Our Reverse Robin Hood Housing System | naked capitalism

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/15/2025 | naked capitalism

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