A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?
A historical look at Presidential power grabs, um, authority expansion, with an eye to what that means under Trump 2.0.
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BRICS Isn’t De-Dollarizing Anytime Soon
Why the Global South path away from the dollar will be longer and more difficult than many friends of BRICS imagine.
Read more...Greenwashing Case Against Santos Could Set Global Precedent
Investor, attorney general, and activist lawsuits seek to curb cynical do-nothing and delaying climate action tactics like greenwashing.
Read more...The Fight to Hold Executives and Boards Accountable Continues in Barclays and Bayer Appeals
An update on two cases, one against Barclays, the other Bayer executives and directors, which seek accountability in New York courts.
Read more...The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot
The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery
An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery
Read more...How Extensive is the Privatization of Security?
A disconcerting review of how far private security, as in policing not supervised by a state, has gone in the US and abroad.
Read more...First Russia-China Barter Trade May Come This Autumn, Sources Say
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Read more...Where Can We Live? The Homeless Crisis in America
The war on the homeless in the US has entered a very ugly phase.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Skunk Party Manifesto Finds a Home in the New Kentucky Party
The Skunk Party Manifesto explained how the best political system money can buy is great for its customers and lousy for the rest of us
Read more...The Stupid Price Gouging Discourse
Is Kamala’s price gouging proposal is a ruse, and why won’t she voice support for Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission?
Read more...How Responsible Is the Rental Housing Cartel for the Explosion in Homelessness?
Since collusion in pricing and vacancy hit critical mass in 2016, homelessness has soared.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Forgiveness, Foreclosure, & Christianity
Michael Hudson reprises a favorite theme of how the salutary practice of debt forgiveness came to an end under Greco-Roman oligarchs
Read more...Former Ambassador Chas Freeman: Possible Disintegration of Civilian Government at Year End
Chas Freeman sends a sobering warning.
Read more...Beyond Leviathan: What Is the State & the Challenge To Transcend It?
István Mészáros’ “Beyond Leviathan” described origins of the state, its evolution, the need to move beyond it and how to meet that challenge
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