…profiteering for organizations like health insurance companies and private equity, that have no expertise in health care, looking to see how much money they can skew out of health care.”…

…corporate chains and Wall Street speculators. Their goal is not to maximize grandma’s care but to minimalize her cost to faraway rich shareholders. Their most common profiteering ploy is to…

…hearing in the United States. I would expect such from someone based in Europe. War, oil, trade and profiteering – The one-handed economist America’s “Stable Genius” decided that he could…

…enter the land war in strength until 1918, suffered one-third of one percent (0.37%) of its population killed or wounded. Simply put, World War I is a thorough and devastating…

…no longer difficult to identify a cause. The report identifies two Gulf War “neurotoxic” exposures that “are causally associated with Gulf War illness.” The first is the ingestion of pyridostigmine…

…who collectively said there was not a defined mission for going to war, that we would lose many American lives, and that we’d be there for a generation. Kos even…

…economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy. The whole post can be read at The Big Picture….

…a criminal justice matter rather than some matter of existential war of civilizations. But calling these matters ‘crimes’ rather than ‘war’ is important. In WWII we declared war on Japan…

…made them feel safer. When the Iraq war started, the effects of war weariness kicked in fairly quickly and people wanted fewer causalities and peace. When the Great Recession began,…

…waste of war and war production made the retail waste of peacetime profit-seeking superfluous. As Stephen Leacock had stipulated four years earlier, “The economics of war, therefore, has thrown its lurid light…