The Teach For America Bait and Switch: From ‘You’ll Be Making a Difference’ to ‘You’re Making Excuses’
A report from an insider on organization dedicated to scabbing known as Teach for America.
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Yet More Private Equity Grifting: The SEC Enables “Broken Deal Expense” Con
There’s so much chicanery afoot in private equity that I sometimes don’t write about important aspects on a timely basis. One of the big ones that most investors manage to kid themselves about is how the general partners’ fee structures really work. The widely-cherished fantasy is that the prototypical 2% annual management fee (the “2” […]
Read more...Judges Nixing Keystone XL South Cases Had Tar Sands-Related Oil Investments
Lambert here: As ever, the scandal is what’s legal. Ka-ching. By Steve Horn, a Madison, WI-based Research Fellow for DeSmogBlog and a freelance investigative journalist. He previously was a reporter and researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. Originally published at DeSmogBlog. On August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot […]
Read more...Don Quijones: Spain Hit by Trade Suits, a Bitter Foretaste of TTIP
Spain has been hit by 19 trade suits over renewable energy subsidies alone. More would come if the TTIP become law.
Read more...Is the Local Economy the Solution to a Post-Capitalist World?
Relocalization has the potential to increase political accountability and revitalize communities. But how do you make it happen?
Read more...Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon on #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Misleadership Class
Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report discuss how BlackLivesMatter seems to be abandoning its campaign against police brutality to become a tool of the black misleadership class.
Read more...Australian Trade Minister: TPP “Trade” Deal Unlikely
When a Liberal government in Australia won’t back Obama’s “deal is near” party line on the TPP, you know it’s on the verge of being officially dead.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? War, Vietnam and Today
How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...Greece Says It Has Reached a Deal with Creditors; New Research Says Germany Comes Out Ahead from Lending to Greece Even with 100% Default
Greece and its creditors have reached agreement on key terms for a so-called “third bailout”
Read more...Clinical Trial Transparency Effort Encounters Deafening Silence in US Launch; Agnotology or Anechoic Effect?
A successful initiative in the UK to obtain more registration and publication of clinical trial data has had its US launch utterly ignored , not simply the mainstream media but also the logical suspects in the medical trade press and scholarly journals..
Read more...Hillary Clinton State Department Emails, Mexico Energy Reform, and the Revolving Door
Three Flexians from HillaryLand envision and implement a Mexico energy “reform” architecture from which they personally benefit.
Read more...David Sirota: Hillary Clinton Is Running Away from Her “Free Trade” Record
Yet again, HIllary Clinton tries to distance herself from her “sell out the middle class” policies, this time on “free trade”.
Read more...Bill Black: Republican Candidates Agree that the System is Rigged for the Rich
The Republican candidates for President all made shameless appeals for even more plutocracy, in particular preferential treatment for the rich.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/15
Today’s Water Cooler: Republican debate, job stats and liftoff, Ferguson one year after, Stewart on bullshit, TPP still twitching, slowness
Read more...Dutch Pension Fund Escalates War Against Private Equity Secrecy, Won’t Invest in Funds that Fail to Disclose All Fees and Costs
By challenging the private equity secrecy and fee-gouging regimes, a major Dutch pension fund shows how craven its US counterparts are.
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