TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
“The truth is that any form of authoritarian control—any type of “government,” whether constitutional, democratic, socialist, fascist, or anything else—will result in a set of masters forcibly oppressing a group of slaves. That is what “authority” is—all it ever has been, and all it ever could be, no matter how many layers of euphemisms and Read More…
Elizabeth Warren asks: Has Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf “profited from the bank’s fraud”? When Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf stepped down last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said it wasn’t “real accountability” given the scope of the financial institution’s fake-account scandal. Now, Warren and her colleague Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) are doubling down on that accusation, Read More…
In a previous article we talked about sweeping things under the table, and I believe the smartest financial reporters have tried to report on this but have been told to ‘let it go.’ As usual, this is about money, so let’s follow that money and discuss why it is the most important thing we can manage in Read More…
I know I am an idealist in my hopes that we can make the world better. Most people believe the super rich are too big to take down. That could very well be true, because it’s been that way for hundreds of years, but I am still hopeful that awareness can do … something. The economic Read More…
Well over a half billion dollars is shelled out annually by the Pentagon to propagandize and galvanize public support of its wars based nearly entirely on lies — because, after all, war crafted to prop up the military-industrial machine’s profiteering can indeed be a tough sell. In the latest report on Public Relations Spending from the Government Read More…
Since its 2008 crisis, Iceland has received recognition for its strategy of prosecuting executives, letting banks go bust, and focusing on social welfare. Iceland, which became a gold standard for corporate accountability in the wake of its 2008-2011 financial crisis, has found nine bankers guilty for market manipulation in one of the biggest cases of Read More…