Over 5 million children are facing starvation and a cholera outbreak is raging in Yemen, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, yet the US continues to support the Saudi bombing and destruction of the country, says Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Read more...How Britain’s system of offshore finance and tax havens developed and preserved the UK’s role as the largest player in international finance.
Read more...A look at the UK’s negotiating stance, charitably assuming that it is by design.
Read more...CEO pay needs to be curbed, and a maximum wage is one way to do it.
Read more...Medical bills are so out of hand that despite the power of the health industry lobbyists, some Senators are taking on the worst abuses.
Read more...More on Frost’s misrule at CalPERS.
Read more...A secret corporate arbitration panel in the Hague ruled that Ecuadorean courts’ $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron for environmental damages is illegal and should not be enforced. An expert argues that the decision is a travesty.
Read more...Why you should take conventional wisdom about the Lehman collapse and the crisis with a fistful of salt.
Read more...A reminder that the budgetary “paying for things” framing is a way to deny resources to citizens.
Read more...How CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s media mavens are only digging a deeper hole in the scandal over her misrepresentations before and after her hiring.
Read more...Has anything changed on the Brexit front?
Read more...Urging the Democrats to act out of character and do the right thing on the Kavanaugh nomination.
Read more...A prominent former CalPERS insider demands that the Board fire CEO Marcie Frost over her lies about her education.
Read more...Looking at the costs of and some possible responses to regulatory capture.
Read more...CalPERS is undermining the performance of its audit unit, a critical control function. The fact that CEO Marcie Frost either doesn’t care, or is not even on top of things enough to know, is yet another sign of her incompetence.
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