Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
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Trump’s Bogus Infrastructure Plan Takes the U.S. Further Down the Road of Rentier Capitalism
The public-private partnerships Trump proposes are a sick neoliberal joke.
Read more...Exxon’s Conspiracy Charges Aim To Derail Climate Lawsuits
ExxonMobil is engaged in unprecedented efforts to sue and harass in court those are investigating and suing the company over global warming
Read more...Remember, Remember the Eighth of November: India’s War on Cash Assessed One Year Later
One year after India launched its demonetization debacle, the economy remains cash based, and Modi has yet to pay politically.
Read more...The Bad Things That Happen When Alternative Views Go Mainstream
Ill-informed, poorly-researched and frankly sloppy writing creates the potential for the progressive anti-neoliberal cause to undermine itself
Read more...Yankees, Red Sox Hit Up Fans for Hurricane Harvey Relief, and Eschew Much By Way of Their Own Direct Donations
Teams promote market for fans to bid on memorabilia for Harvey relief rather than stepping up to the plate to donate much directly.
Read more...John Helmer: Canadian Foreign Minister Freeland Hid Light Under Bushel Until Toronto Globe & Mail Exposé
Discussion of the ethical lapses and financial conflicts of interest of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Foreign Minister and leading Russiaphobe.
Read more...Dean Baker: Social Security A Success Story- Can It Withstand Privatization Attacks?
Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Banks Hurt the Real Economy – FDIC’s Hoenig to Senate
The FDIC’s Tom Hoenig takes up the thankless task of shellacking the latest self-serving whinge from Jamie Dimon.
Read more...The Crapification of Air Travel, And Don’t Expect AMEX to Help, Either
The tale of a barcoded duffel bag that’s gone astray– and the crapification of the system for finding it. Booking via AMEX no help.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Obama Harvests His Presidency
Obama signs up to collect fat speaking fees from Wall Street for services rendered to the 1% during his presidency.
Read more...India’s “Bold Experiment With Cash”: Debunking Myths
India radical demonetization policy: Is this a decisive action against the black economy or an ill-considered, damagingly arbitrary act?
Read more...Ian Fraser: What the HBOS Fraud Tells Us About the State of British Banking
The £1 billion HBOS Reading fraud, my part in exposing it, and what it tells us about the state of British banking
Read more...Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash
Latest salvo on cash: European Commission explores setting a maximum limit on cash transactions, to apply cross-regionally from 2018.
Read more...The Global War on Cash – India’s Demonetization Debacle
India’s demonetization debacle has destroyed growth in what was the world’s fastest growing economy while failing to ferret out black money.
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