Net Neutrality: The Coming Battles in the Congress and the Courts
Net Neutrality and the Congressional Review Act, Blackburn’s bill, suits from state AGs Schneiderman and Ferguson, and the Internet Association
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Defining the Tax Reform Battleground
How tax “reform” policy discussions reinforced destructive economic ideas.
Read more...Lee Camp: How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me
NPR stoops to intellectually and factually dishonest bashing of comedy host Lee Camp. Not the behavior of a confident elite.
Read more...The Bitcoin Bubble
As bitcoin has become a mania, it is also becoming a risk to the real economy.
Read more...Pharma Impunity and the Opioids Crisis
Legal liability and opioids crisis: Why do the big fish always seem to get away? Will state lawsuits make a difference?
Read more...Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University
How parasitic administrators are ruining university education.
Read more...The Fight for Net Neutrality Isn’t Over
The FCC voted Friday to overturn net neutrality, RNN interviews Craig Aaron about next steps to secure a free and open internet.
Read more...The EPA Tries to Turn a Blind Eye to Carbon Emissions. The Courts Can Stop It.
Senator Whitehouse explains why the courts can challenge some of the breaks the EPA has given to global warming perps.
Read more...Incoming Board Member Margaret Brown Criticizes CalPERS’ Plan to Hurt Beneficiaries by Hiring Unnecessary, High-Priced Private Equity Middlemen; CalPERS Violates Open Meeting Rules by Advancing Plan in Secret
Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.
Read more...The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...LEAKED: Head Of FCC Mocks Impending Destruction Of The Internet
Ajit Pai, the head of the FCC, shows his true colors. Not a pretty sight.
Read more...How the Radical Right Takeover in Brazil Has Parallels With Trumpism
The hard right is running the country without being elected after Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment last year. It has surprising support among the new lower-middle class.
Read more...DNC’s Unity Commission Further Dividing the Party
It should come as no surprise that “unity” in the Democratic Party means purging dissidents.
Read more...Republicans Plan to Cut Food Stamps as Homelessness Rises in the US
Republicans want to take food out of children’s (and adults’) mouths by cutting food stamps. One likely result is an increase in homelessness.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg: U.S. Military Planned Nuclear First Strike On Every City In Russia and China … and Gave Many Low-Level Field Commanders the Power to Push the Button
Daniel Ellsberg reveals that the authority to launch nuclear first strikes has long been widely distributed. So who has that authority now?
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