The Usual Suspects: Americans Are About to Get Robbed
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump and the GOP are about to pull off the biggest heist in world history — they just have to fool their supporters one last time.
Deutsche Bank: A Global Bank for Oligarchs — American and Russian, Part 1
Reading Time: 19 minutes International banking colossus Deutsche Bank has a track record of deploying illegal financial trading, money laundering, and shady offshore tax shelters in the service of the global elite. Should anyone be surprised that Deutsche is on Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation radar?
A Visit from St. Donald
Reading Time: 2 minutes We wrote a special Christmas poem to celebrate the passage of the GOP’s tax reform legislation. Finally things are looking up for billionaires.
What Smart People Are Saying About the Tax Bill
Reading Time: 6 minutes The final version of the GOP tax bill is about to be voted on by Congress. But what’s in store for the American people? And does even Congress know? Here are some short takes from around the web that we found insightful.
Big Chicken Rules Roost in Trump White House
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ex-boss of USDA Food Safety “retires,” then reappears working for meat production company. Coincidence? Or fat cat in the hen house?
The Feds’ Secret Workforce
Reading Time: 7 minutes The federal workforce is at the same size as it was in the days of John F. Kennedy, while the use of federal contractors has surged. That trend may only get worse with expected federal budget cuts.
‘Big Decision’: Will the US Spend What It Takes to Save Puerto Rico?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Puerto Rico needs a “Marshall Plan” to recover from the double devastation of Hurricane Maria and the economic austerity imposed by Congress.
Wall Street and the Nazi Cartels
Reading Time: 19 minutes Excerpt from “All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System.”
Another Day, Another Country, Another Corporation Hurting Workers
Reading Time: 6 minutes Workers marshaled all their forces to save their bottling plant, only to face the same corporate power that bedevils American employees.
Misplaced American Healthcare Exceptionalism
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is US healthcare really the envy of the world? Statistics and the average American’s pocketbook tell a different story.