10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
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How Ireland Became an Offshore Financial Center
Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...Support Elizabeth Warren, and Other Senators in IRS Crack Down on Private Equity Tax Abuse
Please provide your comment on regulatory guidance, um, crackdown, proposed by the IRS on a private equity tax abuse, management fee waivers.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: TPP – A Recipe for Financial Market Contagion
How the TPP would make financial firms that are “TIBACO” – that is, too interconnected, big, and complex to oversee – even more dangerous.
Read more...John Helmer: Australian and Dutch Officials Lose Control on MH17
Now government officials and police are disagreeing with each other…
Read more...John Helmer: Chrystia Freeland Demoted In New Canadian Cabinet – She And The Ukraine Lobby Hit By Siklebaum Disease
Chrystia Freeland and the nexus of Ukraine-related politics in Canada.
Read more...Full Text of TPP, Including Annexes, and Boy is it Nasty
Yes, sports fans, the TPP is as bad as you feared it might be….
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (II): HM Treasury Weighs in (and so Does Russia, With a $46Bn Money Laundering Allegation)
Even HM Treasury thinks the UK’s anti money laundering framework is a mess
Read more...Fifty Shades of Tax Dodging: How EU Helps Support Unjust Global Tax Systems
Tax is a major way to create incentives. Thus the debate about whether corporations should pay more taxes is not naive as the plutocrats would have you believe.
Read more...Martin Wolf on the Low Labor Participation as the Result of the Crapification of Jobs
Why are more and more prime age people refusing to take jobs on offer?
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...“Stunning” Rise in Death Rate, Pain Levels for Middle-Aged, Less Educated Whites
An HIV-level silent epidemic has hit less-educated, middle aged whites, with death rates rising, contrary to patterns in the rest of the world and in other US populations.
Read more...John Helmer: As Merkel and the EU Look Wobbly and Obama’s Syrian Misadventure Misfires, Will Putin Be the Last Man Standing?
How has Putin managed to survive, and even arguably prosper from, a US/EU assault on his leadership?
Read more...Don Quijones: US Threatens UK over Brexit Vote
The spectacle of the US attempting to influence UK domestic politics through having the US Trade Representative Michael Froman issue a threat is pathetic, overreaching, and unconvincing.
Read more...George Washington: The 6 Reasons China and Russia Are Catching Up to the U.S. Military
It’s a wonder the US was able to maintain its military dominance as long as it has, given the scale of looting.
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