Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Announcing a Surprise “Double Your Donation” Challenge!

A backer of many years has thrown down the gauntlet for a surprise “Double Your Donation” challenge. Make her generous offer a big success!

“AI Makes Past Hype Cycles Look Tame”: PitchBook on the Stunning Venture Capital Mania for AI

At these venture capital AI valuations, “exit hurdles become exceptionally large.” That translates into “Look out below!”

Links 10/1/2025

Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – Your Source for Unique, Unsparing Coverage of Late-State Barbarism

Michael Hudson explains how Naked Capitalism is your information force multiplier. So please give so it can keep working for all of us!

What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs? 

The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it? 

Chasing Down Old Nazis in New York Court: Suit Against Volkswagen Controlling Shareholders and Key Managers Over Massive Clean Diesel Fraud

A running battle in New York sees to hold Volkswagen controlling shareholders and key execs accountable for the flagrant “dieselgate” scam

Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas

For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Solutions remain difficult to achieve

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Stopping START

For the first time in over half a century, the United States and Russia operate without a single binding limit on their nuclear arsenals. As New START approaches expiration in 2026, the collapse of strategic arms control threatens a new arms race, erodes global trust, and invites a perilous era of nuclear instability.

The Rev Kev: Naked Capitalism – Bringing You Next Year’s News Today

No kidding, we do have stories from next year for your delectation.

Trump’s Desire to Seize Bagram Airfield Will End in Disaster

A terse takedown of the latest Trump bright idea, of trying to retake the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.

Links 9/30/2025

Censorship, Surveillance, and Spin: EU, UK, and Ukraine Try to Drive the Narrative

The EU, UK, and Ukraine are using a mix of expanded surveillance, censorship, and spin in an attempt to influence the narrative in their homeland and in the U.S.

Tony Blair and Larry Ellison Make One HELL of a Partnership

Blair and Ellison have a shared vision for the future, and it is one that most of us would never vote for if given the chance (which, of course, we won’t be)

Quelle Surprise! Advanced Nations Stymie Governance Reforms at World Bank Intended to Increase Influence of Global Majority

More than a decade of stalled Wrold Bank shareholding reforms illustrate how geopolitical rivalries undermine the push for multipolarity

Coffee Break: Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front

Israel and its billionaire ally Larry Ellison are engaged in a desperate mix of deception, delusion, & dipshittery to hold narrative control.