Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
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Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it. The whistleblower, John Doe, states his […]
Read more...American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process
Welcome to a press gag Secret Service style.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Gimme Shelter (From the Tax Man), Disappearing Money and Opportunistic Candidate
It should come as no surprise that none of the mainstream Presidential candidates stack up well on the issues of tax avoidance and evasion.
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Put End to Mandatory Arbitration for Consumer Loans, Credit Cards
Ding, dong, the witch of mandatory arbitration is (on its way to being) dead.
Read more...Spontaneous Protests in Baghdad Green Zone Show Cracks in the Security Apparatus
The occupation of Parliament in Iraq’s Green Zone is a secular, cross-ethnic group effort.
Read more...Nuland Tells Cyprus To Cut Russian Ties – Pressures Anastasiades To Accept Nato Plan For Turkish Troops In Cyprus
Victoria Nuland is leading a US effort to pressure Cyprus to accept a secret NATO plan to keep Turkish forces on the island.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Bill Black: Free Markets Mean Zero Economic Profit – or a 99% Profit Markup
How “free market” ideology produces companies like Valeant, which Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger called a “sewer,” “corrupt,” and “criminal.”
Read more...Gaius Publius: Politico – Less than 1% of the Hillary Victory Fund Benefited State Parties
The Hillary Victory Fund exposed as a campaign-finance-law-breaking money laundering operation.
Read more...Andrew Ross Sorkin Helps Obama Airbrush His “Economic Legacy” with Obsequious Exclusive Interview in the New York Times
Obama’s “economic legacy” contextualized.
Read more...Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
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