Gold Transformer: Post-US world born in Phnom Penh — But See Also CELAC Etcetera

Post-US world born in Phnom Penh By Spengler Asia Times, Nov 27, 2012 It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at …

Michel Beauwens: Hacking Society: It’s Time To Measure The Unmeasurable

Hacking Society: It’s Time To Measure The Unmeasurable from the value-and-benefit dept I was lucky enough to attend a small gathering of great thinkers put together by Union Square Ventures earlier this week for an event they called Hacking Society — which was designed to be a one day open conversation on the economics and …

Penguin: Trans-Pacific Partnership – Evil Incarnate?

In three parts, this is the first part. The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Corporate Governance Looks Like By: Andrew Gavin Marshall The following is the first installment of a three-part exclusive for Occupy.com on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Originally published at Occupy.com In 2008, the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced the U.S. entry into …

Robert Steele: Big Four Audit Firms “Not Our Job to Detect Fraud”

I do not make this stuff up.  Of course one has to recognize that “best practices” are defined to favor the larger players, and the larger players are very interested in things like import-export pricing fraud and other less than ethical tax avoidance strategies.  But the idea that the Big Four do not consider it …

Michael Moore: Open Letter to President Obama That Misses the Point

An Open Letter to President Obama …from Michael Moore Monday, November 19th, 2012 Dear President Obama: Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your second term as our president! The first time you won four years ago, most of us couldn’t contain our joy and found ourselves literally in …