Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber’s True Origin Story
The perception that Uber is a competitive success comes from a recycled propaganda campaign.
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More Railroading of CalPERS Board: General Counsel Withholds That Fiduciary Counsel Candidate Is Leading Case That Undermines CalPERS and CalSTRS
Yet more abuses and derelictions of duty by CalPERS’ general counsel Matt Jacobs. Please circulate this post to CalPERS and CalSTRS members.
Read more...Trump Fires Preet Bharara and 45 Other US Attorneys, Media Hysteria Ensues
Bharara dismissal: The media spins what was treated as SOP in other new administrations into a harbinger of the decline of the Republic.
Read more...Campaign Calls on Bernie Sanders to Lead a New Party
With the Democrats getting their claws into reform efforts like Our Revolution, is a Sanders-led party the most viable route for change?
Read more...Why a 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Eurocentric modernism is not compatible with human civilization and is finally reaching its breaking point.
Read more...CalPERS’ General Counsel Railroads Board on Fiduciary Counsel Selection
CalPERS’ general counsel is upping his power grab with the board’s selection of its fiduciary counsel.
Read more...Brexit: More on the UK’s Weak Hand
Yet more debunking of pro-Brexit fantasies.
Read more...Nationalists Slipping in European Polls
European polls show voters moving towards conventional candidates in some of the big 2017 races. Mood du jour or trend?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Explosive WikiLeaks Release Exposes Massive, Aggressive CIA Cyber Spying, Hacking Capability
A look at some implications of the Wikileaks Vault 7 release of CIA documents.
Read more...European Identity and the Economic Crisis
The rise of right and left wing nationalists in Europe has led to soul searching about what it means to be European.
Read more...Empire in Decay as Trump Spying Allegations Fly
Astonishingly, Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, is willing to say that the CIA may have arranged for spying on Trump.
Read more...Political Misfortune: Anatomy of Democratic Party Failure in Clinton’s Campaign 2016 (Part II)
Spoiler alert: No, it wasn’t racism.
Read more...America’s Hidden Water Affordability Crisis
Why water is a stealth crisis in places like Seattle and Atlanta and will become an economic and social problem for more cities soon.
Read more...NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America
Some likely scenarios for US negotiations over NAFTA, and what they would mean for the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Read more...Political Misfortune: Anatomy of Democratic Party Failure in Clinton’s Campaign 2016 (Part I)
Two narrative approaches compared: The “horse race” (with polls) and gaming out the Electoral College.
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