Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
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When It Comes to Fighting Russian Diamonds, the Jewish Diamond Trade and De Beers Are a Busted Flush
Efforts to crush the Russian diamond trade come when the industry is under duress. Why might the comparatively small Russian exports survive?
Read more...Links 3/19/2024
Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit
Even though the rich are predictably getting richer even in the Covid era, the picture is worse when you look at billionaires.
Read more...Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
Read more...“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Read more...Links 3/16/2024
What Is China’s Future? Economic Decline, or the Next Industrial Revolution?
China has become economically wobbly of late. What does that portend?
Read more...New Evidence the German Taurus Attack Plan Was Leaked by the US Air Force
Yves here. It’s quite a big claim that members of the US military would leak a recording of German generals scheming to strike Russia with Taurus missiles to Russia. But then again, given that the US blew up the NordStream pipeline, it’s not as if the US regards Germany as anything other that a state […]
Read more...How Effective Is International Aid and Assistance? The Rise of Debt Traps
Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
Read more...Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics
A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...Major US Companies Pay Executives More Than Uncle Sam
More evidence, as if you needed it, that corporate executives are very skilled at feathering their nests.
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...US Had Secret Talks with Iran About Houthi Red Sea Shipping Attacks in January
A planted story takes a bit softer line on Iran than is normal for the press. A concession to reality or a justification of US impotence?
Read more...Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?
The West misjudged Russia’s capacity to fight in Ukraine, yet is now cavalierly pursuing escalation. On that path lies nukes.
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