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26.06.2025

Progressives Declare Victory Over Neoliberalism After NYC Primary

Progressives in the Democratic party are declaring the ruling neoliberal class of the party leadership finished after NYC primary.

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26.06.2025

Why the US and the WTO Should Part Ways | naked capitalism

In another sign the old international order is breaking as the US flails about, a serious call for the US to leave the WTO.

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26.06.2025

‘Looking Backwards’ and Forward: How Democrats Who Voted for Iraq Cashed In and How It Ensured the Rise of the Imperial Uniparty | naked capitalism

Obama’s decision to “look forward” continues to reverberate into our endless wars of the present—and future.

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26.06.2025

Rob Urie: Why Did the US Attack Iran? | naked capitalism

Rob Urie points out that how many forces the US keeps in theater will reveal its intent with Iran: deescalating versus trying to regroup.

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25.06.2025

Israel Orders Attack on Iran After Iran Allegedly Violated Ceasefire It Never Agreed To | naked capitalism

Israel is, or is about to be, back into the war-making game. And the US is sure to be in on the action.

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25.06.2025

On the Accelerating Decline in US Medical Training, and With It, Doctor Competence | naked capitalism

A warning to US readers on the further degradation in medical training and resulting crapification of care.

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25.06.2025

Links 6/24/2025 | naked capitalism

Our daily links, including kabuki theater in West Asia, but is there a way out? Plus more militarization on the home front and how animals taught us culture

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25.06.2025

Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia | naked capitalism

Is diminishing Iran key to the famed pivot to Asia, or a distraction?

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25.06.2025

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse - Circular Error Probability | naked capitalism

Precision guided munitions are getting more accurate and proliferating, changing the character of warfare and threatening world peace.

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25.06.2025

Downgrading Uncle Sam, Not America | naked capitalism

An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies' approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status

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25.06.2025

Javier Milei's Controversial "Memorandum of Understanding" With Israel | naked capitalism

Milei's crushing austerity will not apply to Israeli residents of Argentina. Meanwhile, Israel's national water company controls more and more of Argentina's water supply.

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24.06.2025

Breaking: Fordow Attacked Again; Trump Talks Up Regime Change, Brays About Iran Nuclear Site Success as Israel Taking Increasing Toll from Attacks, Iran Puts Pieces in Place for Strait of Hormuz Closure; UPDATE: Iran Media Claims Attack on US Base in Syria | naked capitalism

Iran updates, with the big underlying pressure being Israel's decay path and US failure so far to arrest that.

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24.06.2025

Trump Backfire: How the 2018/19 US Tariffs Against China Boosted Exports and Employment in Mexico | naked capitalism

How a Trump 1.0 tarrifs backfire illustrates fundamental flaw in how Trump goes about doing things.

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24.06.2025

Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI

Nihilism on the part of Alphabet's CEO explains Google's willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.

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24.06.2025

At Antarctica’s Midwinter, a Look Back at the Frozen Continent’s Long History of Dark Behavior | naked capitalism

Sunlight is beginning to return to Antarctica, but are there warnings for us from the “Madhouse at the End of the Earth”?

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24.06.2025

Links 6/23/2025 | naked capitalism

Our daily links, including analysis, fallout, and maneuvering in the aftermath of US strikes on Iran, and

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24.06.2025

Proxy Fighters in the Fog of War | naked capitalism

Examining the potential role of Turkey, Azerbaijan and nonstate actors bordering Iran in the destabilization campaign.

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23.06.2025

Links 6/22/2025 | naked capitalism

Our strategic daily links: Log riding, tiny robot, ChatGPT and the environment, US attacks Iran, Chinese dating, Mideast madness, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. Market, AI, scams, and wretched excess

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23.06.2025

The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist | naked capitalism

A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.

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23.06.2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: In The Soup (1992) Run Time: 1H 33M | naked capitalism

In The Soup is a funny movie about a starving artist and a happy-go-lucky mobster who want to make a film together.

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22.06.2025

Michael Hudson: Why America Is at War with Iran | naked capitalism

The neocon logic for needing to defeat Iran and break it into ethnic parts

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22.06.2025

Links 6/21/2025 | naked capitalism

Our ferocius daily link: Covid reinfections, uninhabitable heat levels? moar raw earths mess, Niger takes French uranium mine, Macron's space fantasies, Iran pounds Israel, US to attack soon, Gabbard humiliated, Ukraine update, Senate Parliamentarian whacks big bill, Rahm to rise from the crypt?

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22.06.2025

US Attacks Iran: Start of a Long War? | naked capitalism

And so the US war against Iran begins, with showy strikes against empty nuclear facilities. What next?

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21.06.2025

ICE's Rap Sheet Grows With Continuing Defiance of Congressional Oversight at Facilities, Attempt to Write Its Own Rules | naked capitalism

ICE is becoming even more high-handed in its defiance of legally mandated Congressional oversight rights.

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21.06.2025

Links 6/20/2025 | naked capitalism

Our luminous daily links, including Trump says he needs two weeks to decide if he wants to start WWIII and how moths use the Milky Way for GPS.

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21.06.2025

What if MAGA Has a Point About Science? | naked capitalism

On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.

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21.06.2025

Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance | naked capitalism

Healthcare history, science in distress – some of it undoubtedly deserved, plus baseball on the rocks and abundance for living

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21.06.2025

Christine Lagarde's Delusions of Grandeur(o) | naked capitalism

As the US dollar's decline deepens, is this the EU's "global Euro moment"?

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21.06.2025

NATO’s Procurement Corruption Scandal Might Delay Its Rapid Militarization Plans | naked capitalism

Yves here. Yet another example of European values in action! A corruption scandal in Aisle 5! While this procurement abuse is not all that big an impediment to European NATO members bulking up their armed forces, say compared to voters not being on board with baked-in social spending cuts, the lack of an industrial base, […]

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20.06.2025

The US Is Taxing the World’s Poorest — and Is Disguising It as Regulation | naked capitalism

Yet more mean-spirited US conduct, here via taxing remittances, hurting families of (often legal) migrants and their home countries.

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20.06.2025

Will Iran Actually Close the Strait of Hormuz? Eni CEO Weighs In | naked capitalism

Investors seem unduly chill about the risk that a US attack on Iran will produce a formal or de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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20.06.2025

Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons | naked capitalism

Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran

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Carl von Clausewitz and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach | naked capitalism

A Possible Connection Between Mental Illness and Diet | naked capitalism

Satyajit Das: Middle East Trajectories – Implications for the Region and Energy Markets | naked capitalism

Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation | naked capitalism

Links 6/26/2025 | naked capitalism

The Israel–Iran Conflict Tests “America First” and Redefines 'Auctoritas' | naked capitalism

US Shale Can't Scale If No One’s Left to Work It | naked capitalism

Links 6/25/2025 | naked capitalism

Progressives Declare Victory Over Neoliberalism After NYC Primary

Why the US and the WTO Should Part Ways | naked capitalism

‘Looking Backwards’ and Forward: How Democrats Who Voted for Iraq Cashed In and How It Ensured the Rise of the Imperial Uniparty | naked capitalism

Rob Urie: Why Did the US Attack Iran? | naked capitalism

Israel Orders Attack on Iran After Iran Allegedly Violated Ceasefire It Never Agreed To | naked capitalism

On the Accelerating Decline in US Medical Training, and With It, Doctor Competence | naked capitalism

Links 6/24/2025 | naked capitalism

Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia | naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse - Circular Error Probability | naked capitalism

Downgrading Uncle Sam, Not America | naked capitalism

Javier Milei's Controversial "Memorandum of Understanding" With Israel | naked capitalism

Breaking: Fordow Attacked Again; Trump Talks Up Regime Change, Brays About Iran Nuclear Site Success as Israel Taking Increasing Toll from Attacks, Iran Puts Pieces in Place for Strait of Hormuz Closure; UPDATE: Iran Media Claims Attack on US Base in Syria | naked capitalism

Trump Backfire: How the 2018/19 US Tariffs Against China Boosted Exports and Employment in Mexico | naked capitalism

Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI

At Antarctica’s Midwinter, a Look Back at the Frozen Continent’s Long History of Dark Behavior | naked capitalism

Links 6/23/2025 | naked capitalism

Proxy Fighters in the Fog of War | naked capitalism

Links 6/22/2025 | naked capitalism

The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist | naked capitalism

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: In The Soup (1992) Run Time: 1H 33M | naked capitalism

Michael Hudson: Why America Is at War with Iran | naked capitalism

Links 6/21/2025 | naked capitalism

US Attacks Iran: Start of a Long War? | naked capitalism

ICE's Rap Sheet Grows With Continuing Defiance of Congressional Oversight at Facilities, Attempt to Write Its Own Rules | naked capitalism

Links 6/20/2025 | naked capitalism

What if MAGA Has a Point About Science? | naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance | naked capitalism

Christine Lagarde's Delusions of Grandeur(o) | naked capitalism

NATO’s Procurement Corruption Scandal Might Delay Its Rapid Militarization Plans | naked capitalism

The US Is Taxing the World’s Poorest — and Is Disguising It as Regulation | naked capitalism

Will Iran Actually Close the Strait of Hormuz? Eni CEO Weighs In | naked capitalism

Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons | naked capitalism

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