US experts try to claim the Russians are vulnerable in the Middle East as the window for US intervention closes. A German military analyst: “The Red Army is invigorated to a level that has never been fielded on the Middle Eastern map.”
Read more...The current US lifestyle needs to go if the world is to succeed in limiting climate change.
Read more...The big problem with Hillary is it is hard to believe she stands for anything other than her desire to exercise power. Her latest bout of opportunism only reinforces that notion.
Read more...This post is written from the perspective of Australia, and assesses the risk of Investor-State Dispute Settlement litigation. And one has to wonder how well those cheery assurances of “Nah, the US is never a target of these investor suits” will hold up in practice.
Read more...The SEC is up to its usual kabuki, of pretending that a mere cost-of-doing business punishment for a firm that has engaged in widespread abuses amounts to a serious effort at enforcement. The gap between misconduct and SEC action is particularly striking in the case of private equity. In May 2014, former SEC examination chief […]
Read more...More discussion of the state of evidence, plus legal and political maneuvering, in the MH17 downing investigation.
Read more...The Obamas lend their name to a private equity brand-building exercise.
Read more...The remaking of public education continue, and not in a good way. A Real News Network interview helps keep tab on this struggle over America’s future.
Read more...A concise, high-level overview of the main issues at play in the Syrian conflict.
Read more...Now you can read a translation of the Japanese government’s summary of the TPP.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, the Post Office is cash flow positive and deserves to carry on as is.
Read more...An interview with Michael Hudson on his latest book, Killing the Host, which focuses on the destruction wrought by financial capitalism.
Read more...Can Russia succeed in creating an anti-Saudi bloc to split OPEC by taking advantage of having oil supplies less vulnerable to transit risk?
Read more...As Oregoncharles put it, in terms of labor force participation, “Obama has now cancelled out the entire effect of the Women’s Movement.”
Read more...The Financial Times saved CalSTRS board chairman Harry Keiley from embarrassing himself. We aren’t.
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