Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...The coup in Bolivia as a resource play.
Read more...Americans are not big on protests, and people abroad are perplexed
Read more...Even a massive recycling campaign won’t make a dent in the plastics problem, as long as the industry ramps up production; some thoughts on raccoons, and rubbish.
Read more...The sorry history of how US arms sales have made the world less safe, and aren’t all that good for America either.
Read more...WSJ publishes results documenting how Google tweaks its search algorithms and adjusts your search results, to privilege large over small, and muddled middle perspectives.
Read more...Sampling of tweets responding to counsel to Democrats to sideline left-leaning twitter feeds.
Read more...JJ Jelincic is still fighting the uphill battle of cleaning up CalPERS.
Read more...A close reading of NSC director Alexander Vindman’s deposition in the impeachment investigation.
Read more...Who is Bloomberg going to take votes from? Will his late entry into the campaign work? Oppo, oppo, oppo! Can be buy enough votes? And is he really running?!
Read more...How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...Some small-scale initiatives to aid the homeless demonstrate how inadequate our respojnses are.
Read more...Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
Read more...Surprise billing is such a widespread abuse that it is managing to bring private equity chicanery and public pension funds’ tacit support of it to long-overdue public attention.
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