The US has one clear goal in sight: to get Argentina to sever its ties with China, particularly by terminating a long-standing currency swap agreement. As we warned just over…
Yves here. As regulars have likely noticed, Simon Watkins is a fire-breathing neocon and so what he says often has to be corrected as well as discounted. But with that,…
Yves here. European NATO members, with few exceptions, have worked themselves into a frenzy over the belated recognition that Russia is winning the Ukraine war and the US is about…
The Lights of Democracy Are Going Out in Europe as Authoritarianism Takes Hold. Who Was Behind the Romanian Coup? According to Călin Georgescu, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, the…
How a Secretive Gambler Called ‘The Joker’ Beat the Texas Lottery Wall Street Journal You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the…
The U.S. intelligence community published its 2025 annual threat assessment on March 25. For the first time in more than a decade climate change didn’t make the cut. That’s not…
Yves here. The debugging and proliferation of mini-grids has important implications, and not just for preppers or those unduly exposed to creaky electrical grids. Recall that we pointed out that…
Conor here: I think the question posed at the end is one a lot of people are working through, and none of the answers are reassuring. By Ramin Skibba, an…
Welcome to the Sunday Morning Antidote Movie! We are trying something new here at Naked Capitalism. Every Sunday morning a new movie from YouTube will be posted, including Westerns, foreign…
By Arryn Robbins, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond. Originally published at The Conversation. I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I…