Malice Aforethought in The Grand Duchy Chronique de les temps fous 3 J Iddhis Bing Luxembourg’s public prosecutors have indicted a French journalist (without naming him publicly) for his widely-followed reports on tax evasion. GroundReport readers are familiar with the scandal now known as LuxLeaks. In fact, readers here knew about it more than […]
Game Theory in the Corridors of Power
Greek Prime Minister Tsipras at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Thursday, March 12, 2015 J Iddhis Bing Alex Tsipras and ministers of his government – among them, the Alternate Minister for International Economic Relations, Euclid Tsakalotos, and a certain Minister of Finance, name of Varoufakis – were in Paris on Thursday […]
Chronique des temps fous 1
The Bankers Grab The Prosecutors By The Cojones, The Coward Who Could Have Saved Greece, The Economist’s Nightmare And A Shameless Promo For Myself J Iddhis Bing And so, like the revolving mechanisms of an old mantelpiece clock, each playing his part without a clue how the whole mechanism works, we tumble into […]
The Story Of My Arrest
J Iddhis Bing On August 31, 2004, I was arrested in New York City. I spent the next three days in a variety of holding pens and cells before getting shoved out the door of the Tombs into the bright September sunlight. Nothing so remarkable about that – it happens to people all […]
The European Union Catches The Banks Holding Hands
Where’s Bob Diamond Now? J Iddhis Bing December 6, 2013 Early in the summer of 2012, Bob Diamond was an American banker with a talent for making numbers say what he wanted them to say. He was sitting in the catbird seat at Barclays Bank UK where he’d made $100 million over the previous six […]
The Ministers of Justice Beg to Differ
Doublethink in Action: France 2013 revised and updated 7 December 2013 Ever since George Orwell described the practice of doublethink and newspeak in his novel 1984, politicians of all stripes have made it their business to perfect the art of saying one thing while meaning something else entirely. They have, to their immense profit, used […]
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