- The Bulwark Site From Weekly Standard Staffers Shows Neocons Are Back (Rolling Stone) And Pierre Omidyar, publisher of The Intercept, is the one wot’s funding them.
- New CalPERS Board Member Has Serious Concerns About Private Equity Plan (Chief Investment Officer) Jason Perez defeated CalPERS President Priva Mathur in the last election, and Mr. Perez is wondering why the board is hell-bent on investing in an expensive private equity scheme.
- Worse than you thought: inside the secret Fitzgerald probe the Navy doesn’t want you to read (Navy Times) That collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a freighter in the Pacific was a direct result of systemic problems with at least the 7th fleet, and possibly the whole of the Pacific Command.
- Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal (Inside Higher Ed) Elsevier are the most repulsive people in academe, which says a lot.
- War Whores Scramble To Say Syria Attack Means Troops Must Remain (Caitlin Johnstone) Yeah, pretty much.
- Group aligned with Ocasio-Cortez prepares to take out Democrats (Politico) Justice Democrats, who got AOC to run in the first place. Good. Let the faux Democrats make their own party.
The marvelously profane Simon Pie on Brexit: