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Meetup Reminders! Boston, This Thursday, April 25; Announcing Location for Minneapolis Meetup, Thursday May 2; Still Seeking Location for Milwaukee Meetup Wednesday May 1

More meetup information. Hope to see you soon!

Report: Going 100% Renewable Power Means a Lot of Dirty Mining

Looking at some of the non-CO2 costs of increasing renewable energy production and distribution.

Embedded Internationalism: The Only Way to Fight the Global Oligarchy

Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.

Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: Privacy disappeared when competition did. Laws governing competition could change that.

Greening Monetary Policy

Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.

Even though the Good Friday/Easter weekend is coming up and Brexit matters are thus in low gear, the UK still seems stuck in its pattern of confusing motion with progress. A short list of updates: Labour-Tory talks still going nowhere. I’m not sure it would be progress even if the negotiations were going somewhere, since […]