Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams

The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries

Now that Congress is showing interest in taking back its control of war powers, it could look at stealh warmaking via mercenaries too.

Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.

Government is failing when it stands pat in the face of “your money or your life” level corporate greed, now on display in this pandemic.

Cuomo on the Brink: How to Impeach a Governor

As you are making your popcorn, we’re providing a playbill to help you navigate the probable impeachment of Andrew Cuomo.

Obama Wants His Private Presidential Center on Public Land—and Mainstream Media Is Looking the Other Way

Obama gets yet another undeserved free pass, this time over his Presidential library.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Five: Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless

Didi has a more commanding position than Uber in a fundamentally more attractive market, yet has been hemmorrhaging money.

Pfizer Court Fight Could Legalize Medicare Copays and Unleash ‘Gold Rush’ in Sales

Pfizer wants to legalize kickbacks.

Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 2/2

Bob Smith got the Watergate break-in leak before the Washington Post. But the New York Times, then as now, avoids tough political stories.

Congress Moves to Reclaim Its War Powers

Congress has roused itself from its stupor over our undeclared, or more accurately, unapproved wars. But will much change?

The Infinite Loop of Empty Direct-to-Consumer Branding

Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.

Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?

Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.

Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline

Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.

Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices

Private equity is doing yet more damage to heath care as it buys up primary care practices en masse.

Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”

Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.

Haiti Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters

How Haiti is a fiefdom for gangs and foreigners pilfering the country’s natural resources.