If You Read This Book, It’ll Make You a Radical: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank on what’s the matter with America.
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Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From…Climate Change
Big oil seeks yet another handout.
Read more...Former Official Criticizes CalPERS Board Member Richard Costigan’s Defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s Lies
A salvo against CalPERS board member Richard Costigan for his dubious defense of CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations.
Read more...Holding the Line on Torture
An update on the struggle to get US mental health professionals out of the business of advising on torture techniques.
Read more...Why Is CalPERS Aggressively Promoting Internet Voting Despite Experts Like the National Institute of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Saying “Hell No”?
More proof that CalPERS has no shame.
Read more...Financial Times’ FundFire Unambiguously Confirms Our Reporting of Misrepresentations by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost
Financial Times’ FundFire reporter Fola Akinnibi has written three stories this week that referred to misrepresentations made by CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost during and after her hiring by the giant pension fund. His latest report, CalPERS CEO Misstated Educational Background During Hiring Process (no online version) not only flatly calls out Frost’s falsehoods, but also […]
Read more...Democrats Can Block the Kavanaugh Nomination If They Want To
By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow him on Twitter @Gaius_Publius, Tumblr and Facebook. GP article archive here. Originally published at Common Dreams If Democratic votes put Kavanaugh on the Court, the nation will be harmed […]
Read more...A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
Another Republican effort to wreck the ACA might succeed.
Read more...Nick Turse: The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!
The US military disproves the notion “the conventional army loses if it does not win,” and now wins simply by not losing.
Read more...Second Circuit Narrows Reach of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Second Circuit last week narrowed the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but will not redirect the DoJ to focus on enforcement of more significant violations that occur closer to home.
Read more...Trans Mountain Pipeline a Serious Misstep for Trudeau
Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...The Mills of Providence Were Ground Up Slowly
Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Financial Times Publication Confirms Accuracy of Our Reporting on CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Resume Misrepresentations; Board Refuses to Investigate and Instead Attacks Us
CalPERS is making credulity-straining defenses of its CEO Marcie Frost, and even a normally friendly publication isn’t buying them.
Read more...Marrying NAFTA and The TPP: The “US-Mexico Trade Agreement”
How a new “great” Trump trade deal is just recycled old trade deals with a new label.
Read more...Why I Hate The New York Times Front Page Redesign
Moar crapification.
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