Hard Brexiters Continue Humiliating Theresa May
How long will Theresa May serve as a hard Brexiter punching bag?
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The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
A fortune derived from the relentless marketing of painkillers is now being used to expand charter schools.
Read more...Puerto Rico Update: Roads, Power, Water, and Money
Updating on Puerto Rico, which will require at least $23 billion in aid, according to PROMESA’s Financial Oversight and Management Board
Read more...That’s Not MY Greenhouse Gas!
Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.
Read more...More Signs Brexit Negotiations Coming Apart
More less than encouraging news on the Brexit front.
Read more...Trump’s “$250 Billion” of China Trade Deals: As Usual, Hype Greatly Exceeds Reality
Trump’s much ballyhooed China trade deal gives way less than meets the eye.
Read more...Kingdom Of Fear: Saudi Arabia On Lockdown
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a political and informational crackdown.
Read more...European Worries About Isolationist Trends
European leaders ponder how to defend internationalism. They realize that the response to the crisis created innocent losers. But what now?
Read more...LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...How to Fight the Global Wall Street Landlords
Local activists are having some success in fighting Big Finance landlords who have become big, ruthless players in rental housing.
Read more...What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites
Some observations about the Paradise Papers and the big business of tax avoidance.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King of America
A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...Donna Brazile, the “Rigged” Democratic Primary, and Relitigating 2016
Examining the documentary evidence for Brazile’s bombshell on “rigging” the 2016 primary.
Read more...Remember, Remember the Eighth of November: India’s War on Cash Assessed One Year Later
One year after India launched its demonetization debacle, the economy remains cash based, and Modi has yet to pay politically.
Read more...Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta
How the Charter of the Forest set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.
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