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)
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
Tony Blair and Larry Ellison Make One HELL of a Partnership
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 16 Comments »
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
Topics: Africa, Banana republic, Banking industry, China, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:49 am | 1 Comment »
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.
Topics: Coffee Break
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 41 Comments »
Bravo! Met Our Second Goal, On to Our Third: Supporting the New Coffee Break/Sunday Movie Feature
Please support our new features: Coffee Break and our Sunday Movie! Let these talented writers know how much you appreciate their work.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:49 pm | 2 Comments »
Announcing Our 2025 “Double Your Donation” Challenge!
A generous sponsor is supporting a “Double Your Donation” challenge! Take advantage of his offer to turbo-charge your donation.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:48 am | 7 Comments »
Thomas Neuburger: Naked Capitalism – Helping Navigate the Times That Try Men’s Souls
Naked Capitalism’s taleted writers work relentlessly to get at the truth in an ever-more-partisan and propgagandized world. Please chip in!
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:08 am | No Comments »
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.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:57 am | 11 Comments »
Links 9/29/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 150 Comments »
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.
Topics: Macroeconomic policy, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 12 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 63 Comments »
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?
Topics: Africa, Guest Post, Middle East
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Haig Hovaness: Why Naked Capitalism Matters
NC Is an oasis of intelligence and reason in a desert of manipulated media.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 11:10 am | 4 Comments »
Links 9/28/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 220 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 7 Comments »
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.
Topics: Curiousities, Media watch, Politics, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 29 Comments »