Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds Are Shifting
Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.
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Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF and World Bank support US hegemony.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...How a Central Asian Business Empire Dines Out on British Secrecy
Using the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask interests and ownership at home.
Read more...Private Equity and “Institutional” Investor Owned U.K. Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion, Caused “Catastrophic” Environmental Damage
Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #1 in Miami (First Night)
Open thread on the debates.
Read more...Cheat Sheet for Tonight and Tomorrow’s Democrat Presidential Debates
Debate terrain, the role of the press, candidate form in previous debates, and the role of the press
Read more...How Judges Kill: Sealing Corporate Records Showing Destructive Behavior Based on Dubious “Trade Secret” Claims
Judges who are unduly deferential to corporate secrecy demands are literally killing Americans.
Read more...Health Care Price Transparency: Fool’s Gold, or Real Money in Your Pocket?
A former insider explains why more transparnecy won’t solve bad health care pricing practices.
Read more...Book Review: John Patrick Leary’s “Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism”
One more book to read!
Read more...Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump Is Deepening the ‘Economic War’ Against Iran
Lawernce Wilkerson offers another dose of his pithy commentary on US policy versus Iran.
Read more...Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
Some urban public schools, like the ones in St. Louis, are about to regain substantial local control after budget crises made them wards of the state (government). Will these cities be able to take advantage of this opportunity?
Read more...Place-Based Economic Conditions and the Geography of the Opioid Overdose Crisis
There is not one opioid crisis in America—there are many. And supply-focused measures won’t stop them.
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