How Wall Street Takeover of Rental Market Is Fueling the Homelessness Crisis
New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.
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Links 12/26/2022
Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members
One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...US-China Struggle for DR Congo Resources Intensifies
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s estimated $24 trillion of untapped mineral resources is coveted by both the US and China as rivalry heats up.
Read more...Links 12/25/2022
NATO’s Ghosts of the Past Return in Kosovo-Serbia
Serbian president says the situation now resembles the “Chekhov’s gun” narrative principle: “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.”
Read more...Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks
Data on banks’ investments in European sovereign debt show that trust importantly influences cross-border investment.
Read more...US Heavy-Handedness Forges Russia-Iran-India Ties
This Asian north-south bloc grows stronger in response to Washington’s efforts to maintain hegemony, and as Sir Halford John Mackinder said, “Who rules the world island commands the world.”
Read more...The UK Firm at the Heart of a High-Level Fraud Conviction in Russia
Russia cracks down on a few oligarchs using UK offshore-owned corporate entities that face little scrutiny.
Read more...The Night of the Pen Knives – The Olaf Scholz Plot Exposed as Putz, Not Putsch
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Thomas Haldenwang, the internal security chief Scholz accepted from Angela Merkel, have pulled off a media coup in the style of the first German minister of propaganda.
Read more...Japan and the Netherlands Join US Efforts to Cut Off China from Advanced Chips
Japan and the Netherlands are joining the US in tightening controls over the export of advanced chip-making machinery to China.
Read more...‘Solidarity Works!’ Adjunct Strike Ends at The New School After Deal Reached
Part-time faculty at the New School in New York City get a new deal after students occupied university center.
Read more...Links 12/12/2022
Is Canada Euthanizing the Poor?
Canada’s assisted death program attracts people living in misery due to lack of support from the state.
Read more...Why Supertanker Rates Are Suddenly Crashing
Very Large Crude Carrier rates have plunged to just $38,000 per day, falling some 62% from a few weeks ago.
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