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”.
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Don Quijones: Catalonia Threatens Spain with “Financial Bloodbath”
Yet another European debt/austerity-induced game of chicken, this one of Catalonia v. Spain.
Read more...Trump’s Budget Delivers Big Oil’s Wish: Reducing Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Trump seeks to deliver on another Koch Brothers pet idea: selling off part of the strategic petroleum reserve.
Read more...Debt Relief or a Fourth Financial Assistance Program for Greece?
Greece continues to be broken on the rack of austerity. How far might the IMF’s insistence on reducing the pain level actually get?
Read more...Government Austerity Demands That We Die Within Our Means
Theresa May’s plans to intensify austerity are costing her votes. About time.
Read more...Bill Black: FBI Investigations Are Conducted at the Discretion of its Director
Bill Black discusses the history and dynamics of FBI investigations, which are neither as unstoppable nor as unimpeachable as is sometimes claimed.
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...Board Member JJ Jelincic Calls Out CalPERS’ “Roy Cohn,” General Counsel Matt Jacobs
CalPERS board member JJ Jelincic shows the lengths to which the board and staff will go to silence dissident board members.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War
Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...WSJ: JJ Jelincic to Leave CalPERS Board
JJ Jelincic is retiring from CalPERS’ board. He has made some more pointed comments about the sorry state of affairs at the pension fund.
Read more...Notes From an Emergency: Tech Feudalism
A wide-ranging, lively, sobering talk about tech feudalism and the implications for all of us.
Read more...Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Renounces Commitment to Glass-Steagall While Saying He Isn’t
Steven Mnuchin demonstrates that he is a shameless liar even by Goldman standards.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: More Job Guarantee Muddle
Why there is a lot not to like in the Center for American Progress’ job guarantee proposal.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
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