Koch influence in the academic sphere is far ranging. Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs. These are significant investments in the “intellectual raw materials” of free-market advocacy.
Read more...Rant, annotated.
Read more...The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
Read more...Schumer’s “Heroes Fund” would create a new labor aristocracy
Read more...International Olympic Committee adopts guidelines that prevent athletes from kneeling, raising firsts, or otherwise protesting.
Read more...Plus ça change….
Read more...At stake is whether China will agree to do what Russia did in the 1990s: put a Yeltsin-like puppet of neoliberal planners in place to shift control of its economy from its government to the U.S. financial sector and its planners.
Read more...The indictment (for Manning, not DNC email), the theory of the case (not “hacking,” please), the assault on journalism, horrid takes, and details of the arrest.
Read more...Commentary on the inadequacy of the UK’s proposed Limited Partnership Reforms
Read more...Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...Chutzpah!
Read more...The Financial Times has used two lead stories this week to deliver factuall-challenged propagandizing for the Government’s Brexit maneuvers.
Read more...Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
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