Deutsche Bank reports suspicious activity by Jared Kushner
This story was reported overnight in the German press, but was picked up this morning by the NY Daily News:Deutsche Bank is looking at evidence that companies related to Jared Kushner may have moved...
View ArticleTrump's Golfing Partner: "He cheats like hell."
This should come as a surprise to precisely nobody: Our Liar-in-Chief cheats at his favorite activity. According to the site trumpgolfcount the president’s golf outings since his inauguration have...
View ArticleHow quickly democracies can die
Watching the Republican Party in the US marching lockstep with President Trump down the path of lawlessness should concern anyone concerned with preserving our democratic system.As a subscriber to the...
View ArticleSteve Bannon's Excellent European Grand Tour
For the past week Steve Bannon has been touring Europe and spreading the gospel of white nationalism. He likes what he sees in Europe: everywhere the mainstream democratic parties are in retreat while...
View ArticleBrazilian Digital Artist Brings History Alive with Color
I have visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and toured the Dachau concentration camp. I have seen photographs of thousands of prisoners — alive and dead — from many of the Nazi death...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Ruined Retail. Now It's Targeting Newspapers
For the past five years we’ve watched as one retail company after another has been taken over by private equity groups and now are in bankruptcy or have closed down for good. Well known brands such as...
View ArticleRight-Wing Billionaires Smell Blood, Lose Big
Here’s a little story to add some cheer to your Monday. Not content in just bleeding our democracy dry, a group of right-wing investors invested over $600 million in the fraudulent blood-testing...
View ArticleTrump tweets lies in effort to destabilize Germany. Germans respond.
While Trump lavishes praise on Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin, he has nothing but scorn for our European allies. The one leader he hates the most is the German chancellor Angela Merkel, and he...
View ArticleEvangelicals explain their support for Trump. It's the racism that stands out.
The Washington Post has done some terrific reporting on the prevailing moods in Trump Country. In an article today a post reporter visited the First Baptist Church in Luverne, Alabama — a town that...
View ArticleVatican a Criminal Enterprise
I haven’t seen any diaries about the grand jury report released yesterday about the decades-long sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania. No one should should be surprised by...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of West Virginia
Later today President Trump will be holding another of his Klan-like “rallies” in Wheeling, West Virginia. Another hour or so of outrageous lies we’ve grown accustomed to. He will be speaking to a...
View ArticleMeet Trump's New Director of Medicaid
You may have missed this announcement of the Trump Administration amidst all the news about Saudi, etc. The Trump administration has tapped Mary Mayhew — the architect of Maine's aggressive...
View ArticleDer Spiegel's Fake Journalist Reinforced Ugly Anti-American Stereotypes
In early 2017 Der Spiegel sent its star journalist Claas Relotius to a small town in rural Minnesota that had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Relotius would stay for a month...
View ArticleWall Street Nemesis Jack Bogle is Dead
Jack Bogle, who founded The Vanguard Group for average small savers and investors, passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Bogle invented the concept of low fee index fund investing after observing...
View ArticleThe Children of Caracas
The situation for children in Venezuela continues to deteriorate. Under the corrupt dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro children are forced to eat garbage on the street — or consume drugs as a way to escape...
View ArticleGOP Collusion with the Nazis in the 1940 Election
The Trump Campaign was not the first Republican campaign to collude with a totalitarian regime to influence an election. Throughout the 1930’s there was collaboration between the German Nazis and the...
View ArticleNazi May Day March in Plauen, Germany
Today many people are asking how the local authorities could allow this to happen: yesterday, 300 Nazis, dressed in brown shirts, marched through the streets of Plauen in Saxony waving flags, carrying...
View ArticleCreationism being taught in Kentucky public schools
Why should I be surprised? After all, Kentucky is the home of the Creation Museum. As reported in Washington Post, the state is at the forefront of pushing Bible Studies in public schools. The model...
View ArticleThe Epstein - Mar-a-Lago Connection
Evidently Jeffrey Epstein used a cadre of female “recruiters” to find and train his underage victims. I was curious as to why with all the reporting the names of these women recruiters have been...
View ArticleDonald Trump - Peter Thiel: Brothers in Misogyny
At first glance, Trump and his favorite ‘advisor’ Peter Thiel would seem to have little in common. Thiel is an openly gay man, Trump wants to roll back LGBTQ rights. Trump is a fake billionaire,...
View ArticleMajor Investor Endorses Elizabeth Warren's Bill to Rein in Private Equity
Private Equity firms have made $billions by buying and looting businesses, but some investors are taking a longer view and deplore this activity. Wall Street investor Lee Hindery Jc., writing in...
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104 year-old Auschwitz survivor celebrates birthday with her descendants -...
I figure after a gut-wrenching week we could all use an uplifting story. As a young woman Shoshana Ovitz watched in horror on the ramp at Auschwitz as Dr. Josef Mengele “selected” her mother and father...
View ArticleSusan Collins Owned by Manufacturer of Assault Rifles
Maine has a large community of gun owners — mostly hunting enthusiasts. But the vast majority of Mainers support sensible gun regulations — including a ban on military-style assault rifles....
View ArticlePrivate Equity Profiting from Abuse of Children
The Wall Street Journal today published a blistering attack on Elizabeth Warren’s Stop Wall Street Looting Act. Once again, Senator Warren is seeking to “punish success.”Private-equity firms invest in...
View ArticleThomas Mann's American Democracy Lecture Tour
Thomas Mann and his family were forced to flee Germany shortly after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Goebbels consigned the Nobel Prize winner’s books to bonfire. In 1938 Thomas Mann made to...
View ArticleJeff Bezos' New Beverly Hills Mansion
Jeff Bezos recently purchased the Warner Estate for $165 million — the highest price ever paid for a home in California. That in itself is hardly newsworthy, since Bezos could easily buy 10 Hollywood...
View ArticleGerman Right-Wing Terrorist/Murderer Influenced by QAnon Conspiracy Theories
Terrible news coming out of Hanau, Germany — just east of Frankfurt — where a right-wing extremist went on a rampage and murdered nine people — all of immigrant background. The man then evidently...
View ArticleFake News: THERE WAS NO exclusive takeover offer of German biotech company by...
On Sunday it was widely reported in the US and German press that President Trump had offered to buy the COVID19 vaccine being developed the German company CureVac. The report sparked outrage on both...
View ArticleThis is what evidence-based leadership looks like
Germany has recorded roughly the same number of COVID-19 cases as France, Italy, and Spain, but only a small fraction of deaths from the virus. Why is that? Much credit goes to the effective...
View ArticlePrivate Equity is making the pandemic worse
After we all come through this terrible period I hope Congress will investigate the role that Private Equity has played in exacerbating the overall suffering. Take nursing home/long-term care...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops Issue Bizarre Conspiracy-Laden Anti-Vax Appeal
The bishops issued an Appeal for the Church and the World in multiple languages, signed also by cardinals and archbishops in Germany and elsewhere. The document is highly critical of government...
View ArticleSweden is NOT the model
I just heard Senator Rand Paul tell Dr. Fauci that we should embrace the Swedish model of “herd immunity” in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, that massive testing and contact tracing are totally...
View ArticleQAnon Conspiracy Comes to Germany
Last February 43 year-old Tobias Rathjen, a Trump enthusiast, went on a shooting rampage in Hanau, outside of Frankfurt, killing 9 people of Middle Eastern or Turkish background. Authorities later...
View ArticlePrivate Equity and the Looting of America
Mehrsa Baradaran has an important op/ed piece in the New York Times you may have missed: The Neo-Liberal Looting of America. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the damage private equity has done to...
View ArticleBlack kid offers white adult a donut. Gets bombarded with N-word.
Fourteen year-old Peter Osazuwa had just purchased some donuts in downtown Newburyport, Massachusetts. Dunkin’ Donuts made a mistake in completing the order and gave the kid extra donuts as an...
View ArticleO Canada! German conspiracy nuts flocking to Cape Breton
Want to spend your evenings drinking beer with your neighbors and chatting about chemtrails, George Soros, and how the 5G network is spreading the corona virus? Far right German personalities Andreas...
View ArticleLetter from Auschwitz survivor to Mark Zuckerberg
I’ve always been a strong supporter of the First Amendment and have opposed any form of censorship. One book that had a strong influence on me wasFreedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of...
View ArticleEvangelical Trump supporter: Pence is "submissive wife to Trump"
The New York Times has an excellent article explaining why white evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump. The gist of the piece is that these folks are willing to overlook Trump’s obvious character...
View ArticleAnti-Vaxxer RFK JR. joins neo-Nazis in massive Berlin 'Anti-Corona' Protest
Tens of thousands ‘Corona-Truthers’ descended on Berlin today to protest the measures implemented by Angela Merkel and her government to prevent the coronavirus spread. What is ironic is that the...
View ArticleTrump embraced by German Neo-Nazis
Two weeks ago a mob of Nazis stormed the Reichstag in Berlin after one of the leaders announced that “Trump has landed in Berlin!”. That was the signal they had been waiting for; only the brave...
View ArticleSusan Collins - Queen of Private Equity
Three years ago the Senate Republicans were poised to vote on Trump’s $trillion tax cut giveaway to billionaires and large corporations. The final vote they needed to pass the measure was that of...
View ArticleBring your start-up to Oklahoma? No way!
On paper, Oklahoma seems like a good place for starting a business: low taxes, plentiful affordable housing, very low cost of living in comparison to California. But after making abortions illegal...
View ArticleDeSantis wants New College to become a MAGA madrassa. Hampshire College...
The New College of Florida was always an oasis for non-traditional students who rejected the party and football atmosphere at Florida’s other public universities. Students could pursue a self-directed...
View ArticlePrivate Equity and the Looting of America
The NY Times has an excellent Op/Ed piece on the scourge of private equity by Brendan Ballou. When I started out in banking in New York in the 1980s there were only a handful of PE firms (called...
View ArticleRFK Jr. intends to sue me for defamation for a Daily Kos diary.
In May of this year I received a draft civil complaint from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attorneys that they intend to file in the Southern District of New York. The complaint states that “Mr. Kennedy...
View ArticleRecent polls show Germany's fascist AfD party now second strongest.
The photo above is of German politician Björn Höcke, a member of the state assembly in Thuringia and leader of the Alternative für Deutschland – AfD - (“Alternative for Germany) — a right-wing...
View ArticleRFK Jr. threatens DKos diarist: Pay me $1 million or else!
Last month I informed the Daily Kos community about the draft defamation complaint I received from Robert F. Kennedy’s attorneys concerning a 2020 post I wrote about his speech in Berlin that was...
View ArticleRFK Jr. has filed a lawsuit against me in New Hampshire. Guess who else his...
The Daily Beast has published an article about RFK Jr.s case against me and reported the filing:The draft complaint indicated Kennedy intended to file in New York federal court, though he subsequently...
View ArticleTrump pushed Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: "What do you have to lose?"...
Researchers from universities in Lyon, France, and Québec, Canada have published initial results after analyzing COVID hospitalization data across six countries: France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey...
View ArticleThousands of Germans take to the streets to protest growing fascism. Will...
Last month members of the neo-fascist AfD Party (“Alternative for Germany”) held a secret meeting along with other right-wing extremists — including neo-Nazis- at a resort in Potsdam. The meeting was...
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