Friday, October 24, 2025

Ending Taxes on Home Sales Would Benefit the Wealthiest Households Most – Part of a Larger Pattern in Trump Tax Plans

With Trump chaos-making and zone-flooding, some gimmies to the well-f, like a proposed tax break on home sales, are going under the radar.

Links 9/29/2025

War on Labor Accelerates: Administration Predictably Embraces Guest Workers and “Anti-Capitalism” Is Labeled Terrorism 

A look at who is being deported and who is being ushered in shows that what’s happening is a trading out of people for exploitable workers. And fighting back just got harder with Trump’s new security directive. 

Patrick Baab on Europe’s March to War with Russia

Why the risk of a hot war between some NATO states and Russia may be more imminent than many believe.

Trump’s Dip Into the Nile Waters Dispute Didn’t Settle the Conflict – In Fact, It May Have Caused More Ripples

Examining one case of how US-sponsored peace deals spread more chaos. Is it simply Trump or a State Department feature, not a bug?

Haig Hovaness: Why Naked Capitalism Matters

NC Is an oasis of intelligence and reason in a desert of manipulated media.

Links 9/28/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Hopscotch (1980) Run Time: 1H 45M

Hopscotch is a light-hearted Cold War comedy about a rogue CIA agent and his pursuers.

Charlie Kirk and the Making of an AI-Generated Martyr

In the US, death and mythmaking are useful tools weilded to dictate the terms of public life.

Curro Jimenez: Naked Capitalism – Your Escape from Propaganda

Naked Capitalism is dedicated to telling the best approximation of truth it can find and its expert commentariat keeps us on our toes.

Links 9/27/2025

The Milton Friedman Question

A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.

The Warning Signs Are Clear: We’re Heading Toward a Digital Crisis

Quelle surprise! No one would dare bulld a car to the standards used for digital systems and products, and a crash seems baked in.

Bravo! Met First Goal Quickly, Now on to the Second: Supporting the Commentariat

Congrats! We are advancing at a healthy pace towards our fundraiser goals. Now on to our second, supporting the comments section.

Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.

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