US Firms Have Little Financial Incentive to Comply with the Minimum Wage
More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...When it comes to foreign policy, Argentina’s Javier Milei government appears to have only one guiding principle: to align itself as closely as possible with the US and Israel, whatever the cost.
Read more...A Medicare scheme to lower costs of chronic care patients gets a thumbs down from most MDs, perhaps because it was designed for middlemen?
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics ~
Read more...On different notions of citizenship and their implications.
Read more...The much predicted peak oil is running behind schedule, to the detriment of the planet.
Read more...The US housing market is stalled, yet Biden fans insist that, economy-wise, we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...Some observations about why modern Israel backs genocide, and why the US and Europe supported its creation.
Read more...Sahra Wagenknecht shook up the German political establishment with the January launch of her new left-populist political party. She’s now looking to do the same in the European Parliament.
Read more...The AI targeting system, Lavender, tries to provide a tech gloss of legitimacy to hit lists, here one designed to kill bystanders.
Read more...The timing of the Gulf Stream slowdown looks to be arriving ahead of its earlier schedule.
Read more...An Indictment where misdemeanors become felonies based on unspecifed “other crimes”; a Statement of Facts without all the facts.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, now would be a good time to sell gold, Kennedy on the ballot in Iowa, pilots cite “problematic trends” ~
Read more...Chronicling Russia’s relentless de-electrification campaign and the path to Ukraine capitulation.
Read more...Argentina “cannot be neutral in the Third World War.”
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