Open Thread: Reader Takes on Sanders/Clinton Brooklyn Debate
Seeking reader reactions to last night’s Sanders/Clinton debate.
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Michael Hudson: Pamama – Laundering Haven for War Budgets
Michael Hudson explains the history of Panama as a center to launder earnings for the oil and the gas industries, and the mining industry.
Read more...Krugman Kinda, Sorta Retracts a Key Part of Last Friday’s ‘Sanders Over the Edge’ Op-ed
Being Paul Krugman means never having to say you’re sorry.
Read more...Gillian Tett Shows She Does Not Understand Offshore “Profits,” Parrots Corporate Propaganda Instead
Repeat after me: Apple and Big Pharma companies are not keeping cash offshore as a result of tax rules, but they are successfully misleading the press and politicians.
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Mainstream Media Ignores Blockbuster Expose of Massive Bribery in Iraq by Unaoil
Fairfax and Huffington Post have broken a monster story on bribery by Unaoil in Iraq that implicates major multinational corporations and officials all over the Middle East. So why the media blackout?
Read more...Corporate Media Tries to Bury Sanders Alive
This Real News Network segment focuses on the media’s misconstruction, or more accurately, misrepresentation, of what superdelegates mean for the Sanders campaign.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl?
How should we view Zero Dark Thirty versus other technically esteemed films with unsavory content like Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will?
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
After many warnings were ignored, New Zealand Foreign Trusts are now damaging NZ’s reputation overseas
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
Read more...Mirabile Dictu: Lead Story at Bloomberg Gives a Thumbs Up to MMT
Bloomberg gives a fairminded and reasonably detailed report on MMT.
Read more...An Eyewitness Report from the Thwarted Trump Rally
A first-hand account from the aborted Trump rally.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...John Helmer: FireEye – A Case Study in How the Financial Times Weaponizes Its Middle East Reporting
Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
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