Many Countries at UN Oppose Trump Interference in Venezuela
The US plans for Venezuela don’t have the degree of foreign support that the press would have you believe.
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Brexit Is Good News for Those in the Business of War
Arms merchants are lining up deals in anticipation of Brexit.
Read more...Jonathan Tepper’s The Myth of Capitalism: “Fucking Unreadable”
Author Jonathan Tepper has sent us multiple reader assisted suicide notes, and we are only too happy to oblige.
Read more...MMT’s Opening
Another go at clearing up press and pundit misrepresentations of MMT.
Read more...New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics
The Orwellianly-named Integrity Initiative is bringing international disinformation campaign, road tested in Europe. to the US, in the form of a “political smear unit.”
Read more...Brexit: Circling the Drain
The latest chapter in the Brexit shaggy dog story.
Read more...Media’s Russia Obsession Obscures How Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Benefits Turkey Most
A dose of sanity from Patrick Cockburn on Syria.
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)
Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Writers Silenced by Surveillance: Self-Censorship in the Age of Big Data
“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
Read more...Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism?
Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy.
Read more...George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...CalPERS PR Messaging on Private Equity Backfiring as Lack of Justification, Flailing About, Become Obvious
CalPERS looks not just reckless but also foolish as it keeps rejiggering a dubious private equity scheme that it presented as ready to go months ago.
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...Confidence or Dead CEO Walking? CalPERS Staff Pressured to Wear Badges of Support
Yet another embarrassment at CalPERS.
Read more...Trump Ouster of Sessions Gives New Life to Mueller Controversy
In typical Trump fashion, Trump managed to get himself in more trouble while trying to poke a stick in the eye of his opponents.
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