Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to The Panama Papers
Bonus Links: “The Panama Papers Problem,” “Explaining the Panama Papers, or, Why Does a Dog Lick Himself?,” “Laundering Havens for War Budgets,” “The Corruption Revealed in the Panama Papers Opened the Door to Isis,” and “Iceland Names New Prime Minister in Wake of Panama Papers”
Link to an article by John Pilger:
Link to an article by Terry Carter:
“Will Those Who Led the Financial System Into Crisis Ever Face Charges?”
Links to articles by Jeffrey St. Clair & James Ridgeway:
“On the Firing Line: Bullies in Stetsons”
“The War to Claim the New West”
Bonus Links: “Cattle, Guns, Birds and Boredom: Inside the Oregon Occupation” and “9th Circuit Blasts Judge Who Ruled for Rancher”
Link to the group Mapping Police Violence‘s report:
Bonus links: Interview with Sam Sinyangwe, Campaign Zero (mostly good ideas, with some flaws: the persistently proposed requirement that “community organizations” nominate civil servants/overseers is flawed [would the KKK qualify as a “community organization”? If not, then which groups? And who decides which groups?], and the “fair union contracts” aspect includes important points but then goes too far [banning contacts that allow officers to “receive paid leave or remain on desk-duty during an investigation following a police shooting or other use of deadly force” is anti-due process and anti-worker]; lastly, “unconscious bias” research is still in its infancy and relies on many troubling ideological assumptions [the research has its own bias of the cognitivist and/or liberal variety: “PC anti-racism is sustained by the surplus-enjoyment which emerges when the PC-subject triumphantly reveals the hidden racist bias on an apparently neutral statement or gesture“] making it difficult and premature to implement as a mandatory process).
Link to an article by Linda Gordon:
Link to an article by Brendan McQuade:
Link to an article by Mary Ann Henderson & Brian Platt:
Link to an article by Les Leopold:
“Why Does America Have More Prisoners Than Any Police State?”
Link to an article by Mark J. Perry: