West’s Selective Support for Press Freedom: Only in Countries We Don’t Like
Belarus is a bad actor in forcing a passenger jet to land so it could seize a prominent dissident/journalist. But who wrote this playbook?
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Despite Federal Moratorium, Eviction Rates Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels
The eviction process is restarting, even when it is premature under the law. What will the collateral damage be?
Read more...Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?
If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.
Read more...The War That Israel Lost
Tactically, Israel has the better military, but strategically, they are losing international legitimacy.
Read more...Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.
Read more...An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...War as the Enemy of Reform: Biden’s Dilemma or His Excuse?
How much is keeping the US on a war footing really constraining Biden on the domestic front?
Read more...Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)
Bill Black traces the history of modern American financial fraud starting in this episode with the S&L Banking scandal.
Read more...Revealed: Big Pharma’s Plot to Derail US Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver
Confidential documents expose the pharmaceutical lobby’s attempts to recruit lawmakers for anti-TRIPS vaccine waiver effort.
Read more...Book Review: A Ground-Level Look at America’s Health Care System
In “The Hospital,” Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to provide adequate health care in small-town America during Covid.
Read more...CalPERS Long-Term Care Program Bleeds Policyholders Dry via 10X Higher Premiums, Gross Mismanagement, Bad Faith Dealing
CalPERS continued to abuse its long-term care policy holders, via contract-defying rate increases vastly higher than other insurers.
Read more...Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack
You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
Read more...I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
Read more...UK Company Law and Tax Enforcement Is So Bad It’s Almost as if the Government Wanted to Encourage Tax Abuse
UK tax scamming goes mass, abusing the contact and trace program to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Read more...Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
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