From The Nation: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. [...] In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. [...]
Archive for August 4th, 2009
Blackwater and the Black Market
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Black Markets, Corporations, Crime on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Michael Novak on the Ethics of Capitalism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged class, inequality, Poverty on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking 2 weeks ago at the Chautauqua Institution, Michael Novak hold forth on the Ethics of Capitalism in a Friedman-esque fashion. Of course, he doesn’t come off as nearly that intelligent, at least not in the FORA.tv editor’s selected highlight clip, in which he talks about the rich-poor gap in response to a question from [...]
“One more American myth bites the dust”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Healthcare on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Paul Krugman, a new CEPR study shows that: Contrary to popular perceptions, the United States has a much smaller small-business sector (as a share of total employment) than other countries at a comparable level of economic development…The authors observe that the undersized U.S. small business sector is consistent with the view that high health [...]
