Sunday, October 4, 2026
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Prognoza Pogody AKA The Weather Forecast (1983) Plus Bonuses!
The Weather Report is a movie about living at the end of life.
Iran War: Team Trump at Camp David, Iran Flexes, Riyadh Burns
POTUS Trump met with his war council at Camp David this weekend as Iran flexed new missile capabilities and the Saudis and Ansar Allah exchanged hits on one another’s capital cities.
Naked Capitalism Has Outlasted Larry Summers
Per Max Planck, science progresses one funeral at a time. Does economics advance bit by bit via career deaths of neoliberals like Larry Summers?
As Private Equity, Politics and Prediction Markets Reshape Sports, Is the Press Box up to the Task?
The increasing intermingling of sports with politics and finance means that holding power to account often requires investigations that transcend regular sports reporting.
I Left My Job For My Life to Be More Aligned With My Principles, as Naked Capitalism Has Shown It Can Be
Help support Naked Capitalism’s independence – from conventional narratives, political tribalism, and elite/oligarch capture.
Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups
Another example of why St. Luigi is celebrated: death due to profit-stoking health insurance negligence is not isolated and set to rise.
With the Trial of ‘Ulm5’ Activists, Germany Looks More and More Like a Police State
The trial of Palestinian rights activists reveals Germany’s neofascist playbook for silencing dissent and its complicity in Israel’s genocide.
Hooray! Met Our Fifth Goal, On to Our Sixth: Karōshi Prevention
Please dig deep to support this fundraiser, including keeping Yves in fighting form.
Coffee Break: The Cascade of Death, Big Pharma, Another Second Law, Dolly Parton, and the Uniparty
Part the First: Die with the Measles or Die of the Measles? One of the more irritating tropes of the MAHA movement and its hangers on is whether someone dies of the disease or with the disease. Death doesn’t work that way, as pointed out in this opinion piece in STAT News, The ‘died with’ […]
URGENT: Art_DogCT Returns for New “Double Your Donation” Challenge
Reader Art_DogCT rides to our rescue with a new “Double Your Donation” as this fundraiser comes short. But he needs your help! Please chip in.
At the Bottom of the Oil Barrel, There Is No Baseline for the Future
How JP Morgan and Russia’s central bank chief Nabiullina are signaling serious recessionary risk due to the global oil shock.
Bolivia’s Attorney General, Who Is (Or Was) Investigating “MAGA’s Man in Latin America”, Was Just “Kidnapped” by Security Forces
This is probably the biggest scandal involving the US in Latin America since the abduction of Maduro in January.
