Can Davos Man Punch the “Great Reset” Button?
The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
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Somebody Needs to Tell Chuck Schumer that the Entire Working Class Is “Heroic,” Not Just “Essential Workers”
Schumer’s “Heroes Fund” would create a new labor aristocracy
Read more...‘Cowardice’: Olympics Committee Slammed for New Guidelines Barring Athletes From Kneeling, Raising Fists
International Olympic Committee adopts guidelines that prevent athletes from kneeling, raising firsts, or otherwise protesting.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
Plus ça change….
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Trade Threats Are Really Cold War 2.0
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...Assange Arrest and Extradition Round-Up
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...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (II)
Commentary on the inadequacy of the UK’s proposed Limited Partnership Reforms
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)
Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Mark Ames: ShamiWitness: When Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated With The Most Influential ISIS Propagandist On Twitter
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...Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Chutzpah!
Read more...Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit; Runs Front Page Stories Claiming Theresa May Charm Offensive Is Winning “Fudges” When No Such Thing Is Happening
The Financial Times has used two lead stories this week to deliver factuall-challenged propagandizing for the Government’s Brexit maneuvers.
Read more...Why I Hate Google, Twitter, and Facebook
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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