COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands
How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
Immaculate Deception, Fed Style
The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
Read more...As Covid-19 Patients Skew Younger, Tracing Task Seems All But Impossible
Why Covid-19 infecting younger people is making disease contaiment harder.
Read more...How the SARS-COV-2 Virus Gets In and How to Block It: Aerosols, Droplets, Masks, Shields (with Discussion of Reinfection)
A symposium on SARS-COV-2 transmission, plus an aggregation of the findable cases of SARS-COV-2 reinfection (with commentary and speculation).
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2020
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Read more...Contagious Protests
Street protests propagate across borders. The results point to social media as a vehicle for contagion.
Read more...Links 7/20/2020
Covid-19 Economic Realities Sinking in as Denialism Wanes, Desperation Rises
Putting some ugly Covid-19 facts together.
Read more...While EU Leaders Squabble, The Elephant in the Room Remains Unnoticed
Why the EU Covid-19 rescue program is destined to be a sick joke.
Read more...The Mekong River, Water Wars, and Information Wars
By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]
Read more...Links 7/19/2020
Could Leaving ‘Room for the River’ Help Protect Communities from Floods?
A pioneering Dutch strategy offers one way to respond to the increasing threat of flooding.
Read more...Links 7/18/2020
There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Workers, and above all black workers, lost out when unions came under attack and corporate profiteering and short-termism became the norm.
Read more...Why Africa’s Green Revolution Failed
A new report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “failing on its own terms.”
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