Financial Times Picks Up on Irish Growth Blarney Story…. That We Reported Months Ago
Irish growth is even phonier than the media would have you believe.
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New York Times Series on Private Equity Misses the Mark
A New York Times series lets private equity investors off the hook.
Read more...Bill Black: When Is Crime Not a Crime? When It Is White-Collar Crime
Yet another demonstration of how the media airbrushes out the very concept of white-collar crime.
Read more...The Clinton Campaign Continues to Help Trump Ensure That Policy Won’t Matter in This Election
Is the Clinton campaign playing straight into Trump’s lead?
Read more...Clinton Loyalist Authoritarianism: Brad DeLong Threatens a Journalist and Economists. Who is Next?
Brad DeLong’s self-assigned role as Team Clinton enforcer reflects poorly on him and the Clinton campaign.
Read more...Gaius Publius: “Networks are Colluding” to Declare Clinton the Overall Winner Before California Polls Close
The smell of corruption, Clinton-style.
Read more...Neoliberalism’s Press Gangs: How Markets Raise Costs
Neliberalim’s press gangs – forcing citizens to participate in capitalism when even it produces worse outcomes than public ownership would.
Read more...The New York Times Bestirs Itself to Report on ObamaCare Problems Naked Capitalism Readers Have Known About for Years
Naturally, the Times suppresses any mention of single payer Medicare for All.
Read more...“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it. The whistleblower, John Doe, states his […]
Read more...American Police State: Secret Service Controlling Journalist Access to Conventions by Arbitrary, Secretive, No Appeal Screening Process
Welcome to a press gag Secret Service style.
Read more...Spontaneous Protests in Baghdad Green Zone Show Cracks in the Security Apparatus
The occupation of Parliament in Iraq’s Green Zone is a secular, cross-ethnic group effort.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Politico – Less than 1% of the Hillary Victory Fund Benefited State Parties
The Hillary Victory Fund exposed as a campaign-finance-law-breaking money laundering operation.
Read more...Andrew Ross Sorkin Helps Obama Airbrush His “Economic Legacy” with Obsequious Exclusive Interview in the New York Times
Obama’s “economic legacy” contextualized.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: Neoliberalism in The “News” Room
Corruption at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the New York Times.
Read more...How the New York Times Helped Hillary Hide the Hawk
Hillary Clinton’s macho, um, muscular stance in foreign affairs has delivered a series of disasters. Yet she remains a true believer in the idea that the US is and should remain the world’s sole superpower. And the New York Times pointed that out only after the New York state primary (well, they glossed over the disasters part).
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