Not Going to Take it Anymore – Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize
Unionizing doctors are at odds with management because management cares only about profit while they prioritize the quality of care.
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New Paper Makes Powerful Case Against Tax Treaties
Why tax treaties are a gimmie to multinationals and a poisoned chalice for developing countries.
Read more...Why Letting the Koch Brothers Create a “Center for Free Enterprise” at Public University WCU is a Bad Idea
The hidden strings in a Koch Brothers gift to Western Carolina University, and why its faculty is opposed.
Read more...The Heavy Price of Economic Policy Failures
Why economic failures argue for the need for more democratic control over policy, or at least the ability to cut the power of institutions that get it wrong.
Read more...Capitalism Versus The Social Commons
How the struggle over who controls the commons, the monied classes or a broader group of citizens, reveals the fundamental contradictions of capitalism.
Read more...The Deeper, Uglier Side of TPP
A good, high level discussion of the dangers of the investor state dispute settlement process in the TPP and the TTIP.
Read more...What’s Your Threat Score?
Pre-crime has arrived.
Read more...Why Larry Summers is Wrong and Bernie Sanders is Right on Glass Steagall
Larry Summers, acting as a proxy for Team Clinton, attacked Sanders’ reform proposals, particularly the an updated Glass Steagall. Her’s why Summers is wrong.
Read more...Koch Brothers’ Culture Grab: Latest Donation, to Western Carolina University, for “Center of Study of Free Enterprise” Despite Faculty Vote “No”
How the Koch Brothers are using educational purchases, um, donations, to make cultural norms even more business-friendly.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Now It Is Poland’s Turn
Germany is very upset that Poland has voted in a populist, Euroskeptic, anti-austerity government. And Germany is particularly unhappy that the new regime is increasing its control over public media….which Germany already has in place.
Read more...Controversial DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Face Progressive Tim Canova In An August Primary
Oh frabjous day! Tim Canova, who is challenging the rancid Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is a really good guy.
Read more...Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?
How fraud and mistreatment of students are embedded in the charter school system.
Read more...The Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics
How stealthy groups with ties to Big Pharma are lobbying to stymie proposals to stop the overprescription of opoids.
Read more...Wolf Richter: America’s Largest Utility Jacks up Rates the Most Since 2006 Despite Total Collapse of Natural Gas Prices
PG&E, America’s biggest utility, is a case study in the power of monopoly and regulatory capture.
Read more...The Obama Report Card: The Good, the Bad and the Incomplete
Why are so many people in the soi-disant left who are not career progressives, meaning not part of the Vichy Left, so cautious about calling out Obama’s failures?
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