Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
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Satyajit Das: “Stay in the Name of Reform” – The Fed and ISDA’s Derivative Bankruptcy Initiative
Why a proposal to “stay” derivatives termination in the event of bank bankruptcy is inconsequential and avoids bigger questions about the use of derivatives and failure to rein in risks in this market.
Read more...Democrat Hedge Fund Investors Underwrite Political Networks to Privatize K-12 Public Education
Who says Democrats and Wall Street don’t get along? Hedge funds promote a war on teachers’ unions to boost school privatizations.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...As Clinton Looks Vulnerable, Event Risk Favors Trump (and Sanders)
When Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, you could almost hear the glee from Camp Clinton. Lambert called the tweets from her supporters “giddy”. The pundits saw Advantage Clinton in her presumed lock on women, blacks, Hispanics, as well as the divide of red versus blue states working in her favor. Yet the body […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’
Military-style policing gets another boost, this with targeting immigrants as the pretext.
Read more...Germany Blinks on Giving Debt Relief to Greece….or Did It?
Despite press reports to the contrary, in this year’s game of chicken over the Greek bailout, it looks like the IMF, and not Germany, blinked.
Read more...CalPERS’ Fiduciary Counsel Robert Klausner, Calls CalPERS’ Divestiture of Tobacco Stocks a Violation of Fiduciary Duty
CalPERS’ tainted fiduciary counsel, Robert Klaunser, effectively told the Vermont public pension fund that CalPERS is violating its fiduciary duty.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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