Ilargi: Europe’s Refugees Are a Global Crisis
European leaders are still in denial about the seriousness of the refugee crisis and are focused on what amount to stopgap measure.
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A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA
Yves here. As Roy Poses stresses, the media has underreported on the conflicts of interest at work in this FDA nomination. Be sure to read the very long list of Big Pharma names that have supported Dr. Richard Cardiff’s research and provided grants and speaking fees.
Read more...Former California Official Blasts CalPERS CEO Anne Stausboll, Staff, and Board for Misconduct
Former California official Tony Butka He deems Chief Investment Officer, Ted Eliopoulos, the head of private equity, Réal Desorchers, and private equity professional Christine Gogan to have been so dishonest with the board that they all have should have received a notice of intent to discharge.
Read more...Imperial Overreach: U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations
The US has special ops missions in 70% of the countries in the world,, more than at the height of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Read more...Bill Black on the Department of Justice’s Failure to Prosecute Individuals and Promises to Do Better
This is a wide-ranging interview with Bill Black on a subject of the keen desire of the public to see more corporate officials prosecuted for big business misdeeds, and why that never happens these days.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Will Senator Whitehouse Renew His Call for RICO Prosecution of Climate-Denying Companies like Exxon?
Did climate change denialists like Exxon coordinate their activities, as Big Tobacco did to foster doubt about smoking’s role in lung cancer? If so, what would it take for RICO prosecutions to occur?
Read more...Privatizing the Apocalypse: How Nuclear Weapons Companies Commandeer Your Tax Dollars
How the nuclear weapons industry keeps itself out of the public’s eye despite its huge costs and risks.
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson: Why a ‘Competitive’ Economy Means Less Competition
Nicholas Shaxson explains how a “Competitiveness Agenda” is being used to set industrial policies that favor the creation of what used to be called “national champions,” as in Really Big Companies. Never mind that neoliberals officially oppose anything so interventionist as industrial policy….
Read more...SEC’s Mary Jo White Plots to Oust Effective Accounting Regulator, in Face of Escalating Criticism Over Conflicts
The evidence that SEC Chairman Mary Jo White needs to go becomes more overwhelming with every passing day.
Read more...John Helmer: MH17 – Inadmissible Evidence
John Helmer continues with his discussion of the considerable gaps in information regarding the MH17 crash, and how some of the evidence is missing by virtue being withheld from the public, as opposed to not available
Read more...CalSTRS, Maryland Fund Private Equity Players Seeking Profits in the Refugee Crisis
Private-equity-backed providers undercut charities in providing refugee services. It’s not hard to imagine how the results are coming in.
Read more...Garrisoning the Globe, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All
How military bases cement US power.
Read more...Why Tax Havens Will Be at the Heart of the Next Financial Crisis
Examining an excellent in-depth investigation by Reuters into global financial stability issues, and the role of tax havens in this giant game of pain and plunder.
Read more...CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers to Address Inequality! What’s the Catch?
It is beginning to dawn on the top echelon that too much inequality is not good for them.
Read more...More on Why Bank IT and Payment Systems Matter
The IT challenges of a Grexit are important not only in and of themselves, but as a window into the creaky state of bank IT and the systemic risk it poses.
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