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Catch Us Discussing the New McCarthyism with Josh Scheer of KPFA/TruthDig Today, Dec.1 at Noon PST

We’ll speak with Josh Scheer about the how the Washington Post’s smear against 199 independent news sites is more serious than it might seem.

Wall Street Journal Puts Foot in Mouth and Chews Via False Claim That Tax Law Change Would Lead US Companies To Move Cash to US

Yet again, we ebunk the myth that tax gaming leads US companies to hoard cash overseas. Tax accounting has nada to do with where money sits.

Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants

McCarthyism lives! A site with no credentials and no evidence has smeared over 200 sites, including ours, as Russian stooges.

Tweeting Brexit: Narrative Building and Sentiment Analysis

Twitter can be considered a novel type of elite media that enables agenda setters to communicate directly with other agenda setters and a politically active part of the public

Suspected 5th Columnist Streetwise Professor Knocks Blockchain… But Defends Elites

Why are self-styled progressive economists like the Streetwise Professor criticising Blockchain boosters but making excuses for our elites?

Wolf Richter: Come on Moody’s, Spare Us These Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” Is Already in the US

Moody’s turns into tax lobbyist for its biggest corporate clients.

Bill Black: Wall Street’s Apologist-in-Chief Mansplains Regulation to Senator Warren

The New York Times’ Roger Lowenstein is so convinced of Wall Street’s and the SEC’s virtue that he can’t even be bothered to get facts right.

Validating Wikileaks Emails [Just The Facts]

Why the claim that Wikileaks e-mails were doctored looks to be false, and journalists are falling down on the job in not checking themselves

Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic

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Catch Us Discussing the New McCarthyism with Josh Scheer of KPFA/TruthDig Today, Dec.1 at Noon PST

Wall Street Journal Puts Foot in Mouth and Chews Via False Claim That Tax Law Change Would Lead US Companies To Move Cash to US

Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants

Tweeting Brexit: Narrative Building and Sentiment Analysis

Suspected 5th Columnist Streetwise Professor Knocks Blockchain… But Defends Elites

Wolf Richter: Come on Moody’s, Spare Us These Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” Is Already in the US

Bill Black: Wall Street’s Apologist-in-Chief Mansplains Regulation to Senator Warren

Validating Wikileaks Emails [Just The Facts]

Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic

Hoisted From E-mail: “Shock Doctrine Against CalPERS”

Wells Fargo’s Management by Magical Thinking Comes Up Short in the Cover-Up Category

Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at

The Newspaper Ad Collapse: Bad News for Readers

Big Banks’ Blockchain: Boondoggle?

What Can We Do to End the Isolation of Whistleblowers?

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