Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on the Global Movement for Black Lives
Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, weighs in on issues related to race and racism in America today.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
Hoisted From E-mail: “Shock Doctrine Against CalPERS”
Why CalPERS is becoming the target of sustained media attacks.
Read more...Smoke And Mirrors: What Did OPEC Really Agree On?
Why there is less than meets the eye to the OPEC plan to cut production at the end of November.
Read more...Be Sure to Join Lambert’s Vice Presidential Debate LiveBlog/Open Thread Tomorrow at 9 PM EDT
Hope you can join our vice presidential live blog tomorrow night!
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 1
The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...John Helmer: Four MH17 Questions – The Answers to Which Prove the Dutch Police, Ukrainian Secret Service, and US Government Are Faking the Evidence of the MH17 Shootdown
A skeptical look at the latest MH17 findings.
Read more...Stumpf is Still Faking It – Claims 75% Couldn’t Resist Wells Fargo Credit Cards
In a not-exactly-shocking development of the ongoing Wells Fargo account faking scandal (see our previous coverage here, here and here if you’re late to the party and need a quick catch-up) CEO John Stumpf, fighting a rear-guard action, is making outlandish claims about how, having begun the process of contacting customers who it has cause to […]
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf Tries to Brazen Out Fraud as Congressmen Call Wells a “Criminal Enterprise,” Demand Breakup
Stumpf has another deservedly bad day in the Congressional hot seat.
Read more...Self-Driving Cars: Will the Dogs Eat the Dog Food?
Ethical problems inherent in programming self-driving cars could make them hard to market.
Read more...CalPERS General Counsel Matt Jacobs Lies to Board, and Staff Abuses Authority, to Stymie Public Input
Why general counsel Matt Jacobs’ record of misrepresentations, omissions, and slipshod advice makes him a danger to CalPERS.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf, Head of Community Bank Hit With Multi-Million in Clawbacks: Labor Department Opens
Wells Fargo’s board acts against CEO John Stumpf right before a House hearing. Is this to blunt the interrogation or to save his hide?
Read more...The Nobel Prize in Economics: How It Took a Hard Neoliberal Turn
How the so-called Nobel Prize in economics came to validate neoclassical thinking, even as it failed in Sweden.
Read more...Law Firm for Private Equity Fund Managers Points Out That California “Transparency” Bill AB 2833 is a Big Fail
Yet more evidence that AB 2833, a supposed private equity reform bill sponsored by California Treasurer John Chiang, was a cynical ploy.
Read more...2016 Presidential Debate #1, Trump v. Clinton (Hofstra): Live Blog
Live blog of first Trump v. Clinton debate.
Read more...Deutsche Bank Unlikely to Get Much of a Break From the DoJ’s $14 Billion Mortgage Fine Target
Deutsche Bank isn’t likely to have much luck in trying to get a big break on a pending Department of Justice fine.
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