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
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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.
Read more...Why Are Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools Suspending Students Left and Right?
It’s easy to be a “Success Academy” if you have rules that allow you to force out students that you think will be harder to teach.
Read more...Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Operations ‘Successes’ Around the World
To quote Andrew Bacevich: “There is no doubt that U.S. Special Operations forces are hard at it in lots of different places. It does not follow that they are thereby actually accomplishing anything meaningful.’”
Read more...Weaker Unions Correlated with More Inequality, Higher Pay for Top Earners
The decline in union power plays an important role in explaining the rise in inequality in advanced economies.
Read more...Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...Attacks on Sanders, Progressives Falsely Depict Obama As Lefty Failure as Opposed to Neoliberal Success
A sign that the progressive cause is moving out of the wilderness and starting to rattle The Powers That Be is that the messaging apparatus is starting to attempt to demonize Sanders as a hopeless cause. And the arguments made against him and the progressive cause generally are made via bizarre analogies to the neoliberal Obama.
Read more...TPP Teeters in US Congress
More and more Republicans look to be girding their loins to fight approval of the TPP. And it’s not as if Dems are all that keen either.
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