Star Trek or The Matrix? Varoufakis’s Challenge to Neoliberalism
Varoufakis gave a wide-ranging talk on the considerable conflict between neoliberalism and democracy, and why democratic rule produces better results.
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Watch Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Phil Gramm Have a Love Fest Over Repeal of Glass Steagall
Watch Bill Clinton heart financiers in 1998 and try to take it back in 2013.
Read more...How Bill Gates and His Billionaire Allies Used Their Wealth to Launch Charter Schools in Washington State
The Gates charter school push as a case study in the Trojan Horse of “charitable plutocracy”.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead – Coming to the Philadelphia Crossroad
What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Our Bloomberg Story: Don’t Let Private Equity Dupe California
Path-breaking private equity legislation is being weakened by insiders and the public is being shut out completely. Don’t let it happen.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Merkel’s Refugee Strategy – A Brown Nose Becomes the Chancellor
Toadying up to dictators and intervening in failed states are major elements of Merkel’s new improved refugee strategy.
Read more...Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects
A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.
Read more...Why I (Belatedly) Blew the Whistle on the SEC’s Failure to Properly Investigate Goldman Sachs
SEC whistleblower Jim Kidney gives more detail about his experience on the shallow investigation of Goldman and the SEC’s failings generally,
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...In America’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
Why you should care about America’s drone wars: among other things, they radicalize populations against us and traumatize the operators.
Read more...Greg Palast on How the New York and US Elections are Being Stolen
Greg Palast describe the rationale and methods for deep-sixing registered voters.
Read more...Soros Warns of 2008-Like Debt Growth in China. How Risky are Its Banks?
Is China as at much risk as Soros suggests it is?
Read more...Boston “T” FOIA Fight v. Boston Globe Over $25 Million Loss-Making Hedge Fund Investment
The Boston Globe is fighting the MBTA pension fund to obtain records about an investment gone bad recommended by a former insider.
Read more...How European Union Fiscal Rules Subverted Democracy and Institutionalized Neoliberalism
A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
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