Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
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Links 12/17/2020
Further Discussion of the Red Flags in the Pfizer Vaccine Paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
Responding to critics of a post on the Pfizer vaccine paper and editorial.
Read more...Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Americans’ Hunger During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Here’s What’s Happening in Los Angeles County
More and more Americans are suffering from hunger due to Covid economic stress, as Los Angeles demonstrates.
Read more...Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...Links 12/16/2020
China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...Market Capitalism
Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...John le Carré Was a 21st Century Writer
Le Carré as a subversive anti-imperialist.
Read more...Links 12/15/2020
More CO2 in the Atmosphere Hurts Key Plants and Crops More Than It Helps
A primer on CO2 and crops.
Read more...Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
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