Involuntary psychiatric care is regularly a financial scam as well as an abuse of personal rights, yet patients often have little recourse.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
UK’s National Health Service Still Playing Fast and Loose With Patients’ Health Data
This time it’s patients’ biometrics — their most sensitive data of all — that appear to be at risk.
Vaccine-Only Mandates as a Manifestation of the Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
Why the vaccine-focused approach is not likely to develop necessarily to the advantage of the Biden Administration.
For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.
Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare
Direct Contracting Entities are another scam from the usual suspects. Please sign the petition at the end
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/27/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Patent Buyouts Can Help Win the Race Against Coronavirus Mutations
Instead of merely obtaining the surplus vaccines of rich countries, and relying on unpredictable donations, the existing Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative should acquire the most promising vaccine patents and offer free production licenses.
