Catalonia’s Defiance of Spanish Authority Turns into Rebellion
Catalonia and the Spanish government are in a power struggle, with Madrid moving to strip Catalonia of its autonomy. What are the stakes?
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Climate Change Enabling US Military to Play Greatly Enlarged Domestic Role
Why climate change is great for the Pentagon’s budget and bad for Americans’ freedom.
Read more...CalPERS Illegally Trying to Hide Its Scheming to Hand Over Private Equity to BlackRock
oard candidate Margaret Brown objects to CalPERS’ illegal secret discussions, most importantly, of outsourcing private equity to BlackRock.
Read more...California Has a System That Punishes the Poor Through Traffic Violations—Civil Rights Groups Are Starting to Change That
Law enforcement for profit in California
Read more...Who Is Behind FDA-Weakening Bill Based on False Premise That It Restricts Access to Experimental Drugs for the Terminally Ill?
A look at some of the forces out to undermine the FDA.
Read more...Disasters and Price Gouging
The rational case against profiteering during disasters.
Read more...CalPERS Runs Unconstitutional, Tamper-Friendly Election With Non-Secret Ballots
CalPERS’ new board election procedures make a mockery of the California Constitution’s requirement that voting be secret.
Read more...North Korea: Are Sanctions Working?
Experts have said a military response North Korea’s belligerence is not viable. Is the current economic approach likely to succeed?
Read more...How US Regulators Created the Equifax Mess
How regulators made credit bureaus like Equifax powerful, and why banks could live without them if they needed to.
Read more...Bill Black: Is Politico or Third Way More Divorced from Reality?
The Third Way confirms that the Dems care more about beating back the Sanders/pro middle class faction than winning.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Have a Vested Interest in Not Listening to Workers
Discusses how Democratic Party serves the professional class and the top 10% and no longer cares about the poor or working class.
Read more...High Tech Pork: The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
On the Pentagon’s costly, misguided love affair with futuristic tech.
Read more...Federal Judge Strikes Down Overtime Rule, Leaving Trump Labor Dept to Decide What Follows
Judge strikes down overtime rule, leaving it to Trump’s Labor Department to decide how to revise overtime regs and thresholds set in 2004.
Read more...Nomi Prins: A Decade of G7 Central Bank Collusion – and Counting..
Why central bank snake oil and financier-favoring interventions have done great harm to ordinary people.
Read more...GAO Report Finds Rural Postal Service Remains Essential
More evidence that cutting back on rural postal service is a bad idea.
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