‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing
Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”
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“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...The Coup in Bolivia Has Everything to Do With the Screen You’re Using to Read This
The coup in Bolivia as a resource play.
Read more...The Rich Under Stress as Asset Prices Wobble
Some of the rich are feeling the pinch. Is this a passing phenomenon or a sign of things to come?
Read more...Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like the People of Chile and Lebanon?
Americans are not big on protests, and people abroad are perplexed
Read more...“Do You Have To Travel the World To Know What Poverty Is?”
A revealing discussion of poverty, in not a good way.
Read more...Millennials’ Health Deteriorating, Projected Mortality Rates Higher Than GenX; “Deaths of Despair” a Major Culprit
A sobering picture of the health outlook for Millennials.
Read more...How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Class Loses Share of Household Wealth to the 1%. Bottom Half Gets Screwed
It is bizarre to see the Fed present data showing the Gilded Age level of wealth accumulation by the 1% as if that were a badge of honor.
Read more...The Many Ways Sanders and Warren Are Different & Why It Matters
A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided
Why Eastern Germany is still a place apart.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...‘Maybe Rich People Can See the Writing on the Wall’: CEOs Stepping Down at Levels Not Seen Since 2008
CEOs are cashing out….an early warning?
Read more...Police Deadly Force: Then and Now
Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...Another Health Industry Initiative to House the Homeless
Some small-scale initiatives to aid the homeless demonstrate how inadequate our respojnses are.
Read more...The Myth of Shareholder Primacy
A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
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