Category Archives: Banana republic

China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy

China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.

Through the Revolving Door, with a Few Stumbles – Health Care Corporate Executives and Consultants Continue to Become Leaders of Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services

As hard as it may be to believe, health care industry corruption is increasing, as measured by revolving door appointments.

CalPERS Board Member Margaret Brown Still Illegally Locked Out, Given Only Highly Restricted Access to Transcripts

CalPERS doubles down on its campaign against reform-minded board member Margaret Brown.

Los Angeles Times Confirms Our Reporting on CalPERS CFO Charles Asubonten’s Resume Misrepresentations; CalPERS Admits to Fabrications and Gets Defensive

The Los Angeles Times verifies and amplifies our reporting on the misrepresentations and inaccuracies in the resume that recently-hired CFO Charles Asubonten presented to CalPERS.

CalPERS’ Priya Mathur Opens, Reads, Even Answers Mail of Board Member Margaret Brown, Denies Her Access to Transcripts of Past Meetings.

Yet more lawless behavior at CalPERS.

Oklahoma’s Revolution Didn’t End with Teacher Strikes—It’s Going Much Further

Oklahomans are sick and tired of politics as usual—the good ’ol boy system, they say, must end.

The True, Accurate, and Only Answer to “How Exactly Will We Pay for Medicare for All?”

Taking on the biggest, bogus excuse for not adopting Medicare for All.

The American Healthcare System Shows Why We Can’t Trust Free Market Spin Doctors

More and more pundits are willing to acknowledge the failure of the US healthcare system and recommend single payer as a solution.

Conclusive Evidence of the Russian State’s Guilt in the Skripal Case Is Lacking — and That’s Important

A big crack opens up in the official story about the Skripal poisoning.

Leaky Fed: New Study Uses Taxi Ride Data to Show Increase in Visits When Blackout Lifted and Around FOMC Meetings

Taxi ride data suggests that the Fed is throwing some juicy informational bones to big banks, whether by accident or design.

Current Kentucky Retirement Systems Trustees Considering Throwing Predecessors Under the Bus to Get Blackstone and KKR

Is a pension fund management revolution brewing in what would seem to be the most unlikely place, that hotbed of corruption, the Kentucky Retirement Systems?

Who Will Stop the US-Russia Arms Race?

Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.