Category Archives: Banana republic

Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’

Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.

Gurbir Grewal Takes Helm as SEC Director of Enforcement, Breaking BigLaw Stranglehold

The new SEC director of enforcement takes up his post today, the first in this position since 2005 to enter without strong recent corporate ties.

Beware of World Economic Forum/Gates UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse

The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.

Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices

Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.

Reconstructing US-China Relations

Can the US and China be friends, or at least not so hostile? Jeffrey Sachs has some ideas.

Haiti Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters

How Haiti is a fiefdom for gangs and foreigners pilfering the country’s natural resources.

Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home

The trauma center ripoff provides more evidence that the medical industry is primarily in the business of exploitation, not care.

California Senate Shoots Down CalPERS’ Private Debt Secrecy Bill; Board Hissy Fit Reveals It Never Questioned Staff Misrepresentations

CalPERS is no longer being given the benefit of the doubt by the legislature, and can’t handle a request to ‘splain itself.

Biden Targets Non-Compete Agreements, Which Restrict the Job Opportunities of Millions of Low-Wage Workers

Biden goes after non-compete agreements….but will this effort make a difference?

When Counterculture Goes Mainstream: A Dispatch from the 2021 Bitcoin Conference

How Bitcoin hard-core loyalists see the future of their project.

Industry Calls the Climate Shots in the Biden Administration

And you believed Biden on climate change?

America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?

America is finally out of one unwinnable war. How does this bode for the US extracting itself from other Middle Eastern quagmires?

Kentucky Retirement System Litigation Against KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO et. al. Takes New Class Action/Civil RICO Twist

Those pesky lawyers behind Mayberry v. KKR won’t give up! And some private equity titans are likely plenty unhappy about that.

Purdue Bankruptcy Plan Moves Closer to Approval: Sacklers Would Make Out Well and Preserve Much of the Family Fortune, Despite the Opioids Crisis

Last week fifteen states dropped opposition to Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy exit plan, making it likely the plan will be approved when it comes before a federal bankruptcy judge in August.