“Heads Should Roll at CalPERS”: Who Should Be Held Accountable for Massive Copyright Infringement?
CalPERS’ copyright theft is so large and indefensible that not only might it force a shakeup, but the truly responsible people could go.
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David Sirota: The Role of Journalism in the Age of Trump
Skewers virtue-signalling of much “resistance” to Trump and discusses holding Democrats accountable while Republicans are in power.
Read more...What the Romans Did for Us: On the Age-Old Art of Propaganda
On propaganda’s ancient roots and how much modern practice resembles the Roman playbook.
Read more...George Washington: Special Prosecutor Mueller Is a Political Hack
Robert Mueller epitomizes what is wrong with the Washington establishment.
Read more...Why Is PBS Airing Right-Wing-Sponsored School Privatization Propaganda?
PBS is promoting an attack on public schools. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Lee Camp: How to Write Propaganda for the NY Times – As Demonstrated in an Article About Me
Lee Camp dissects a New York Times hatchet job that manages the difficult feat of having almost nothing accurate in it save Camp’s name.
Read more...CalPERS Internal News Site Ignores Unfavorable Stories, Steals Copyrighted Material
One of the reasons we’ve had insight into what CalPERS is thinking is that it has an internal news site that it curiously has not password protected, as you’d expect, particularly given how it operates.1 Historically, we found it useful not only because it gave us insight into what the Office of Public Affairs (PAOF) […]
Read more...EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
Read more...Final UK Election Polls: YouGov Still the Outlier, Predicts Tories Get Only 302 Seats
Conventional wisdoms still pegs the Tories as comfortable winners in today’s election, with the election map working against Labour.
Read more...Mark Ames: When Mother Jones Was Investigated for Spreading Kremlin Disinformation
Mother Jones’ sad transformation from target of Kremlin scaremongering to perp in its “evil Putin” reincarnation.
Read more...CalPERS Legal Department Employee Trolls Naked Capitalism Site, Putting Focus on Violations of Bar Rules
A CalPERS employee appears to have broken state bar rules in a meant-to-be anonymous comment left at Naked Capitalism.
Read more...Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia
Trump’s ever-changing explanations, “alternative facts,” and program of destroying Federal data is straight out of Orwell’s “memory hole”.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Trolls CalPERS After Getting It to Correct Expense Misrepresentation
The Wall Street Journal forced CalPERS to retreat on its misleading private equity expense reporting.
Read more...4 Lies in 25 Seconds: CalPERS’ Wylie Tollette, PR Staff, Keep Cooking Cost Numbers Despite Being Called Out
Another example of institutionalized lying is deeply rooted at CalPERS, even though they aren’t very good at it.
Read more...Why Did the FBI Leak the Comey Memo?
Putting the Comey leak in the context of US-Russia relations and the domestic factions that are keen to maintain hostilities.
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