From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
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A Remedy for Corruption
From the health care front, positive developments and ideas to serve as a remedy to the usual diet of distressing news.
Read more...Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...More Power to the Workers: Seymour Melman on Extraction by the Military, Managers, and Finance
Why workers are the nexus of production and prosperity.
Read more...Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
Read more...As the Tourists Return, Half of Puerto Rico Remains Without Power, Thanks to PROMESA, while Workers Leave, and Vulture Capital Circles
The story of the missing telephone poles, the Puerto Rican exodus, and the Aurelius case, where nobody knows anything.
Read more...Lee Camp: Let Me Fix That For The New York Times – Police Kill Another Innocent Man
A recent New York Times story on yet another police killing as a case study in biased reporting.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Obama Chose Wall Street Over Main Street
The Democratic Party must acknowledge that the 2008 crash created conditions for much more progressive policies – but Obama did not step up.
Read more...How Nutrition “Science” Made the US and Other Countries Fatter
A deep dive into how an unproven nutrition theory, that saturated fats cause heart disease, became gospel, to the public’s detriment.
Read more...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
Read more...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.
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