Renting Your Life
More on the further erosion of ownership and property rights via required renting.
Read more...Category Archives: Legal
Defending Privacy in the Surveillance State and Fragmenting Internet
Governments and private entities are eroding privacy on the internet. Is it possible to safeguard both openness and security in cyberspace?
Read more...New Palestine Protest/Free Speech Threat: House Oversight Committee Targets 20 Pro-Palestinian Organizations, Such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Demanding Treasury Produce Suspicious Activity Reports, Including on Employeees
A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Seek Repayment from KKR Entities of Misappropriated $137 Million Plus Interest and Punitive Damages, Totaling $771 Million….Oh, and An Accounting Too
The Tier 3 Plaintiffs in the long-running public pension case, Kentucky Retirement Systems, are fast off their marks with a blockbuster filing.
Read more...‘Most Thorough Legal Analysis’ Yet Concludes Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
Israel genocide denialists face more of an uphill battle as an authoritative groups renders a preliminary verdicts against the apartheid state.
Read more...Game Finally On! Judge Denies Key Motions to Dismiss in Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation, Subjecting KKR, Blackstone, PAAMCO, and Top Financiers Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Steve Schwarzman, and Tomlinson Hill to Discovery
The much-delayed Kentucky Retirement System cases are finally moving forward, causing heartburn to some top names on Wall Street.
Read more...Trump Promises to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy − But It Didn’t Work Then and Is Less Likely to Do So Now
A clinical look at the viability of Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation plan.
Read more...Are the BRICS and Their New Development Bank Offering Alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF?
An assessment of how far BRICS has gotten in creating new monetary arrangements and institutions. The short version is “not very”.
Read more...Stasi in the West
Governments across the West are enacting more draconian measures to silence all criticism and are increasingly asking citizens to inform on one another.
Read more...AirBnB Again in Bed With Surveillance State Tactics by Asking for Biometric ID, Spurring Illinois “Mass Arbitration” Action
AirBnB seems determined to violate customer privacy by demanding government ID images, against the laws of some states. What gives?
Read more...Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
Read more...With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
Read more...Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...Grocery Store Consolidation: Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux
More squeezing of the poors and shrinking middle class sought, via a US grocery store merger creating combined company market share of 22%
Read more...Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The Freedom Flotialla is another example of how trying to save lives in Gaza is a high risk enterprise.
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