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Announcing a Second 2024 “Double Your Donations” Challenge!

A new donor steps up with a “Double Your Donations” challenge! Make this fundraiser a big success by taking advantage of it!

Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery

An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery

Putin Calls for Sanctions Revenge, Threatens to Cap Uranium Exports

Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.

The Rev Kev: And Now for Something Completely Different

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Official US Poverty Rate Declined in 2023, but More People Faced Economic Hardship

The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.

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How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?

A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.

No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth

Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.

A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)

A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.

Hooray! Met Our Fourth Goal, On to Our Fifth: Karōshi Prevention

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Thomas Neuburger: 5G War, or Why You Need Naked Capitalism

Support Naked Capitalism as a key part of your defense against the war to control your information and ultimately, how you see the world.

First Russia-China Barter Trade May Come This Autumn, Sources Say

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