Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
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Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...The Minimum Wage Increases = Job Loss Myth
Repeat after me: study after study shows that minimum wages increases don’t lead to job losses.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Diptherio Discusses Flaws in Unemployment Reporting
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, unemployment report style.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it. The whistleblower, John Doe, states his […]
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
Read more...Randy Wray: Progressives Don’t Let Friends Vote Neocon
If you take a hard look at Clinton’s neocon policies, it’s far from obvious that she’s a less dangerous Presidential pick than Trump.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Wall Street Economy is Draining the Real Economy
How Wall Street is interjecting itself into the economy so that more and more is diverted to pay interest, insurance and rent.
Read more...Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel
Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.
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