Covid Is Hitting Workers Differently Than the Financial Crisis
Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, as well as the job prospects of lower education workers.
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The CDC’s VAERS and Vaccine Complications: The System is Broken
The CDC has been visibly remiss in gathering and updating Covid data in VAERS, and that typifies its pandemic mismanagement.
Read more...US Security Analysts Tackle Shape-Shifting Threats With… More of the Same
Military responses to societal crises are a proven failure, yet a key security report fails to offer new ideas or recognise underlying causes
Read more...Links 4/17/2021
Applications for New Businesses Have a Double-WTF Moment
Federal data says new businesses are being formed in droves. But PPP fraud complicates this otherwise positive picture.
Read more...Welcome to the Age of Hysteria
Hysteria was removed from the DSM as a disorder in the 1980s, apparenlty making it safe as the business model of the neoliberal age.
Read more...Prolonged Brain Dysfunction in COVID-19 Survivors: A Pandemic in its Own Right?
More information on lasting Covid damage, this time on the brain.
Read more...The Case for WikiSearch, a Wikipedia Search Engine
The Wikipedia search project has been deceitful, duplicitous, and downright dumb. But Google needs a competitor. Maybe it’s not a bad option.
Read more...How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF
China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?
Read more...Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets
The failure to rein in police shootings of people of color is leading to new calls to defund the police. Top Dems remains silent.
Read more...Inflation in the Aftermath of Wars and Pandemics
Challenging the conventional wisdom that government responses to Covid will generate inflation.
Read more...Links 4/15/2021
Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism
Further discussion of the American and Chinese economic models, focusing on financialization as a central distinction.
Read more...Pricey Learning Pods Are Now Helping Vulnerable Students. Will the Trend Survive the Pandemic?
A case study of the “innovation” of learning pods, and why they are being promoted as an alternative to remote instruction.
Read more...Whither AOC?
Trying to make sense of AOC’s gambit of giving $160,000 at $5,000 a pop to Dem Congresscritters who mainly hate her.
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