Dear Naked Capitalism reader,
Your hardworking  Naked Capitalism team hopes you'll help out in our special holiday mini-fundraiser appeal. You may remember in our early September fundraiser we said we might need to come back to you again. We'd gone out super early to be way ahead of election cray cray and other October surprises. We're making an appeal now in part to give international donors who were earlier stymied by PayPal a new, interim option, Wise (see our accompanying post for our considerable payments processor hassles). But we also hope everyone who has enjoyed good fortune this fall and is charitably disposed will also chip in to keep Naked Capitalism in fighting fettle. So please stop by the Tip Jar and donate! Every contribution, whether $10, $100, or $1,000, makes a difference. In some ways, the stakes are higher than ever. As reader Paula wrote: I want to make a comment about how much I appreciate this site for my thanksgiving. I'm reading Micheal Hudson's latest: The Destiny of Civilization and even though my understanding of economics is limited, I'm thankful this day that NC has been mentioned many times in his book. I'm just a person who goes by intuition and gut. Michael's book verified that those I've been creating poetry against is not off the mark, and his book helps me see more clearly why, for instance, Libya was attacked by NATO and the motorcade that held a leader who wanted his country free from USA hegemony. Gaddifi's plans for his country went against US imperialism...It made him a target for the sickness of US and NATO.
I knew I was not wrong, even without any real economic understanding of the wars our nation waged, when I opposed the Gulf War while my sons were still quite young because as ignorant as I may be, I did not want my sons and daughters to die for the oil appropriation from other countries, when US had not even begun to explore the alternatives, much less invest in them. And Mikerw0 I would much rather read a well researched and thought through blog post on NC than high speed nonsense, that frequently is measured by the attention it garners. And John k: I'm grateful to Nc for information not available in msm. I start with la times to check for changes in the narrative, bridge column and comics, then to Nc for world news and interesting links. And from ambrit: The NC Commenteriat is the bestest commenteriat ever! We hope you'll agree that since our Labor Day appeal, we've given you heaping rations of informative links and news wraps, trenchant analysis, mordant wit, cute animal pix, all greatly enhanced by sparkling reader comments and even lyrics. Our new writers Conor Gallagher and KLG have added to Naked Capitalism's scope and quality, Conor via his in-depth coverage of geopolitical issues that often get short shrift in mainstream media, KLG with his deep knowledge on less than upstanding practices in science and medicine.
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