The History of Witchhunts and Their Relevance to the Present Day
Primitive accumulation, the peasant wars, and witchhunts as a means of social control.
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Medicaid Privatization in Iowa and the Market State
A billion-dollar Medicaid contract is being awarded in Iowa through a corrupt process.
Read more...Winning in Maui: TPP Ministerial Negotiations Fail, with No Date Set for the Next Round
Winning a battle in the long campaign against TPP: It was “domestic politics” that preserved our national sovereignty
Read more...Gaius Publius: One Way to Ease the Worldwide Water Crisis — End Privatization
“We have 15 years to avert a full-blown water crisis.” Why stopping privatization of water will help.
Read more...William J. Astore: The American Military Uncontained, Chaos Spread, Casualties Inflicted, Missions Unaccomplished
An important, sobering description of how US military overreach became institutionalized.
Read more...Notes for an Elite Playbook: The Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
Accounting Control Fraud is one play in the elite playbook; this post argues that Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones are another.
Read more...Control Fraud and For-Profit “Universities” (Et Tu, Bill Clinton?)
Bill Black’s formula for accounting control fraud applied to for-profit universities like Corinthian and Laureate, with a swipe at Laureate’s Honorary Chancellor, Bill Clinton.
Read more...Immigrant Bed Mandate Ensures Guaranteed Profit for For-Profit Prison System
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen I remember a conversation several years ago in which a Democratic staffer told me that the fastest-growing airline in the United States was the private collection of planes that delivered undocumented immigrants across the country. The reason had to do with the fact that […]
Read more...J.D. Alt: A Push-Pull Model for Cooperative Markets Financed by Sovereign Spending
This model of allocating new fiat dollars to specific collective purposes could be applicable to many sovereign spending situations.
Read more...Epic Fail for the Postal Service: The Wrong Model and the Wrong Board
How the managers of the Postal Service, in conjunction with politicians, have worked to undermine the effectiveness of a public infrastructure that is capable of producing broad economic and social benefits.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: The New American Order: 1% Elections, The Privatization of the State, a Fourth Branch of Government, and the Demobilization of “We the People”
Based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name.
Read more...Latest Greece Talks End in Confusion, Dissent
It’s hard to fathom Greece’s approach to its dealings with its oppressors, um, creditors.
Read more...Who Owns the Post Office?
This article describes how the creation of a misguided corporatized governance structure and undermining of public-interest-related objectives undermined the Post Office. The very fact that offices are being shuttered in rural areas that depend on the Post Office as a local anchor, leading to the death of communities, shows how far the modern Post Office deviates from its founders’ objectives.
Read more...John Helmer: IMF Loan to Ukraine Props Up Failing Banks, Enriches Oligarchs
One reason for our continued coverage of the IMF generosity to Ukraine isn’t simply to demonstrate how the institution is bending its rules to support US adventurism. It’s also to highlight the striking contrast with the treatment of Greece. While Greece has a class of oligarchs that specialize in tax-evasion, Ukraine is widely recognized as a spectacularly corrupt country, to the degree that it makes Greece look like a paragon of virtue.
Read more...Can One Union Save the Beleaguered U.S. Postal Service?
The attack on the U.S. Postal Service is based on ideology and punitive, misleading accounting. It’s not too late to save it.
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