Tag: Government

• Disaster Economics: Part 2

  March 27, 2020

  Capitalism, Coronavirus, Corporate Crime, Democracy, Economy, Government, Neoliberalism, Political crimes, politics, White Collar Crime, White Collar, Corporate and Political Crime

  Notes from the podcast Pitchcock Economics   “Disaster Economics” 23 March 2020 This crisis brings into focus the damage of forty years of neo-liberal politics. These policies have been corrosive. The effect of a crisis reveals how well the society was prepared in the first place. If, when a hurricane is coming, the society lived… Read.

• Pease Listen to Bernie and Stop Listening to MSNBC

  February 10, 2020

  CORPORATE MEDIA, Democratic Elite, Democratic Party, Government, politics

  MORNING THOUGHTS   MSNBC is no longer a news channel.  It is a channel where the corporate Democratic strategists talk to each other and try to convince the rest of us that what they want to be true is true.   Morning Joe was devoted today to everything about every candidate in New Hampshire except… Read.

• Proof of Collusion: Seth Abramson

  December 16, 2019

  Books on Politics, Collusion, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, Impeachment, International, politics, Russia, Trump, Whistleblower Ukraine

  All you have to do is read this book to see how Robert Mueller was either a Chickenshit (See book by Eisinger) or part of the project to cover up the Trump/Russia collusion.  Neither alternative is a good one. Read.

• Afternoon Notes: Epstein, the House Intelligence Committee Report, MSNBC,Ukraine

  December 3, 2019

  Authoritarianism, CORPORATE MEDIA, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, International, media, politics, Trump, Whistleblower Ukraine

    House Intelligence Committee Report The House Intelligence Committee has released their preliminary impeachment report. Included are phone records that document phone calls between Giuliani and OMB, made from the White House.  This makes it impossible to maintain the fiction that Giuliani was conducting a “rogue operation.” Epstein Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told The Miami… Read.

• The Corporate Media and the Wet Dreams of a Man Who Controls the Nuclear Codes: We Can’t Let Them Get Away with it.

  October 29, 2019

  Authoritarianism, CORPORATE MEDIA, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, media, politics, Trump

    It’s been a bad few days, a shocking few days, a disorienting few days. First, late last week, the story broke that Bill Barr had launched a criminal investigation into the 2016 FBI probe of Russian attacks on the election.  In doing so, the Justice Department became an authoritarian enforcement arm for the White… Read.

• “I trust him.” Famous last words about Durham and Barr

  October 25, 2019

  Authoritarianism, Government, Graft, Greed and Corruption, media, politics

  The Bill Barr’s DOJ has initiated a criminal investigation into its own Russia investigation, clearly sending a message that there is reason to believe crimes were committed when the original investigation of the Russia connection was started. This is exactly what Trump promised Hillary Clinton he would do, i.e., start criminal investigation and prosecution of… Read.

• The Supreme Court: This Isn’t William Barr’s First Rodeo

  October 19, 2019

  Government

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