The White House Flouts Ethics Rules
Even though the Trump Administration is far from a model of probity, it is managing to find new ways to skirt ethics rules.
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Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia
Trump’s ever-changing explanations, “alternative facts,” and program of destroying Federal data is straight out of Orwell’s “memory hole”.
Read more...Dumb Things Politicians Say About Health Care Policy
Unintended self parody on health care…if only this were a joke.
Read more...Bill Black: FBI Investigations Are Conducted at the Discretion of its Director
Bill Black discusses the history and dynamics of FBI investigations, which are neither as unstoppable nor as unimpeachable as is sometimes claimed.
Read more...4 Lies in 25 Seconds: CalPERS’ Wylie Tollette, PR Staff, Keep Cooking Cost Numbers Despite Being Called Out
Another example of institutionalized lying is deeply rooted at CalPERS, even though they aren’t very good at it.
Read more...Board Member JJ Jelincic Calls Out CalPERS’ “Roy Cohn,” General Counsel Matt Jacobs
CalPERS board member JJ Jelincic shows the lengths to which the board and staff will go to silence dissident board members.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War
Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Renounces Commitment to Glass-Steagall While Saying He Isn’t
Steven Mnuchin demonstrates that he is a shameless liar even by Goldman standards.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...Why Did the FBI Leak the Comey Memo?
Putting the Comey leak in the context of US-Russia relations and the domestic factions that are keen to maintain hostilities.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
Read more...As Clinton Blames Comey & Russia, Authors of “Shattered” Expose Aimless Campaign
One of the authors of the Clinton campaign expose Shattered describes some of the ways in which the campaign undermined itself.
Read more...Secretly Approved in Alaska, Will LNG Trains Soon Appear in Rest of US?
LNG trains were approved in Alaska, in apparent violation of NEPA rules. Are they coming to your state too?
Read more...Ilargi: Comey and the End of Conversation
Political and media reactions to the Comey firing show that American democracy is becoming dangerously factionalized.
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