Don’t Lower Corporate Taxes. Abolish Them ... Lowering the corporate tax rate appears to be all the rage. Donald Trump has promised a cut to 15 percent from 35 percent in the U.S., and British Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to make the U.K.’s corporate tax the lowest in the G-20, which would mean taking it lower than Trump intends to … Now that business-friendly governmen...Read More

No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See ... Making everyone who shares fake news part of a Russian conspiracy is not helpful. One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over "fake news" and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea that Russian agents of various kinds helped hack the process by fueling this barrage of false news. But is that r...Read More

Don’t Entrust Economics to the Experts ... Why has so much of the world succumbed to populist demagoguery and xenophobic nationalism? To a non-trivial extent, economists may be responsible. This idea finds some support in a new book, “The Econocracy,” written by three U.K. economics students — Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. – BloombergAustrian economi...Read More

Legalized Marijuana Could Drive A New Tech Boom … The revolution to legalize marijuana is marching slowly-but steadily-forward. Half of the states in the United States plus the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana or cannabis for medical use, and more states are legalizing recreational use with each election cycle. – ForbesThis Forbes article reminds us of how much progress ma...Read More

Merkel Blames Populist Gains on Rise of 'Fake News' ... This week Merkel blamed "fake news" in driving the rise of populism in the West. It looks like the left is just going to blame "fake news" every time they lose their grip on power. – Gateway PunditThe elite is leveraging its "populism versus globalism" meme by declaring that populism is closely linked to "fake news."We've written numero...Read More

We got the very sad news today, Nov. 22, 2015, that Dave McGowan passed away from cancer at 12:47 p.m. - Truth and ShadowsWe missed the anniversary of McGowan's death, which was yesterday, but he was one helluva a writer, exposing in brief books the"directed history" of the modern era. So, we'll remember him today. We've written about him before, here.He died of an extremely aggressive form of l...Read More

To silence dissidents, Gulf states are revoking their citizenship Many are left stateless as a result. - The EconomistThe Economist "newspaper" is worried that nations are beginning to use passports as a way to punish people that leaders don't like.This article focuses mainly on the Middle East, especially Bahrain, which the article calls an "energetic stripper."More here:Bahrain's ... Sunni ro...Read More

Trump Shouldn't Bully the Fed ... U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during his campaign. British Prime Minister Theresa May has questioned the Bank of England's recent actions, for a while putting Governor Mark Carney's tenure in doubt. The long-cherished principle of central-bank independence seems to be under attack. – BloombergThe...Read More

'Truth Decay' Makes Facts Subjective and Polarization More Extreme ... Disagreements over policy have always existed-but disagreements over basic facts have not. It's a phenomenon that RAND CEO Michael Rich calls "truth decay." -Rand Corporation blogMichael Rich, head of Rand Corporation has come up with a new phrase to describe "fake news," calling it "truth decay." The Rand Corporation is a le...Read More

Zuckerberg: Facebook will develop tools to fight fake news ... Fake news sites designed to trick you ... Mark Zuckerberg has outlined a series of measures that should help prevent fake news from being shared on Facebook. The planned controls, which were announced in a late night Facebook post, follow accusations that a flood of fake news stories influenced the U.S. presidential election. -CNNFaceb...Read More

Barack Obama on fake news: ‘We have problems’ if we can’t tell the difference The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected. -GuardianIs fake news the new "conspiracy theory." We’ve read that it may be, and it seems likely to us.That’s because "conspiracy theory" h...Read More

Well now!! i was a pilot of a B 29, on the raids of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. i am 96 years old. Yes we firebombed these cities as well as Tokyo. But there were A bombs dropped on the two cities in question. -ALPHAMEG feedback to DB articleWe've written numerous articles referring to the Pentagon's lies about its nuclear program - both today and over the past 65 years or so. Now someone (see e...Read More

Donald Trump will often be mocked in the coming months as the anti-elitist, anti-establishment disruptor of politics who wants to lower taxes on the elite and who is not above hiring establishment figures such as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for his team. The mockery will mostly be misplaced simply because the terms “elite” and “establishment” are u...Read More

Trump Versus the Pentagon ... On the campaign trail, Trump called the military a "disaster" ... He pledged to vastly increase the sizes of the Army and Marines and to buy scores of new ships and planes. Does that make sense? - BloombergWe'll answer Bloomberg's question: No it doesn't make sense. America doesn't need a bigger military anymore than it needs a bigger prison system.The American...Read More

India gold import ban rumored ... The Indian Bullion and Jewellers Association has warned members of a potential gold import ban ... The association told Indian media the move could come by March 31 as part of the government's 'black money' crackdown. -Mining JournalPrime minister Narendra Modi recently decided to confiscate the cash of hundreds of millions of Indians, and now he may forbid In...Read More

Hillary Clinton's Popular Vote Lead Expands to Over 1 Million ... Hillary Clinton currently has 61,964,263 votes compared with Trump’s 60,961,967 As Americans' votes continue to be counted, Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote has grown to more than 1 million people. -TIMEThis is a meme that is powerfully growing in popularity. The idea that Hillary swept the popula...Read More

It's Time to Stop Spending Taxpayer Dollars on Elon Musk and Cronyism ... The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee have launched a probe into tax incentives paid to solar companies, according to The Wall Street Journal. The committee probes, led by their respective Republican chairmen, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, have found an appropriate and...Read More

Trumpism as a stress test for democracy .... A series of populist anti-globalism shocks is a test for Western democracies. Trump's stunning ascent to the White House is the clearest signal yet of an anti-establishment revolt unfolding in major democracies, stretching across the Atlantic. - Swiss Info TechWas Trump's victory actually created by the very globalist elites that Trump is supposed to h...Read More

Populism Is Not Fascism But It Could Be a Harbinger ... Right-wing populism-indeed, populism of any kind-is a symptom of democracy in trouble; fascism and other revolutionary movements are the consequence of democracy in crisis. But if governments do not do more to address the many social and economic problems the United States and Europe currently face, if mainstream politicians and parties don...Read More

Billionaire Globalist Soros Exposed as Hidden Hand Behind Trump Protests - Provoking US 'Color Revolution' ... Billionaire globalist financier George Soros' MoveOn.org has been revealed to be a driving force behind the organizing of nationwide protests against the election of Donald Trump - exposing the protests to largely be an organized, top-down operation - and not an organic movement of conc...Read More