Marshall Auerback: How Plan to Replace LIBOR Will Cement Fed’s Role as Global Central Banker
How proposals to replace LIBOR will strengthen the Fed’s position in global markets.
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Gun Control: Remington Rejects Navajo Nation Bid
Remington rejects bid by Navajo Nation investment trust that would have transformed its business model to reject production of assault weapons and embrace smart gun controls.
Read more...Net Neutrality: FCC’s Scuppering Will Stand; Meanwhile, India Adopts World’s Most Sweeping Protections
US net neutrality advocates hold onto slim hope that Congress might overturn the FCC’s decision to scupper net neutrality provisions; meanwhile, India adopts some of the strongest net neutrality protections in the world.
Read more...Commandos Sans Frontières: The Global Growth of US Special Operations Forces
Why Green Berets and Navy SEALs need to solve national security problems — strategic issues that ought to be addressed by policymakers — is a question that has long gone unanswered: Overview of global deployment of US commandos.
Read more...Why I Hate Google, Twitter, and Facebook
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Argentina Gets Biggest IMF Loan in History
Leftout podcast of The Hudson Report, with Michael Hudson, discussing the award to Argentina of the biggest loan in the IMF’s history (includes transcript).
Read more...Four Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and…Repair
The mantra Reduce, Reuse, Recycle should be extended to include Repair, in order to address the worldwide waste crisis. Surprise, surprise, the US lags on this issue, but other countries are showing some progress.
Read more...Can Trump, Israel, and Gulf Allies Get Putin to Turn On Iran?
Trump will meet this week with Putin in Helsinki. But despite talk of a “grand bargain” that enlists Russia in helping the US-Israel-Saudi-UAE front against Iran, don’t expect it to happen, says professor Rami Khouri in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...Two Senate Democrats Call for Investigation into Smart TVs
Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...From Donald Trump to Theresa May: How a US-UK Network Pushes Climate Science Denial and Lobbies for a Hard Brexit — Mapped
As Trump barrels into the UK, this timely post traces interesting linkages between climate change denialists on both sides of the Atlantic– and extends to Brexiteers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Which Would Be Harder to Ban, Single-Use Plastic or Money-Bought Government?
Texas Supreme Court strikes down city of Laredo’s plastic bag ban. Real problem is dominance of money-driven politics– which is a far more difficult problem to solve than curtailing the use of plastic.
Read more...Labor Migration as a Human Supply Chain
Employer recruiting of migrants from other countries creates a transnational network of labor
intermediaries: the “human supply chain.”
Mexico’s President-Elect Plans to End the Nation’s War on Drugs
Under AMLO, Mexico’s drug policies are likely to see some radical changes.
Read more...Iran Sanctions Are Different This Time
The Trump administration is trying to replicate the Obama-era Iran strategy of shutting down Iranian oil exports as a way to pressure the regime into making a series of concessions. But there are several reasons why Trump may not succeed.
Read more...The “Illegals” and Our Professional Classes
The nannies who are employed by the professional class on up….
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