I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
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Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization
Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...UK Company Law and Tax Enforcement Is So Bad It’s Almost as if the Government Wanted to Encourage Tax Abuse
UK tax scamming goes mass, abusing the contact and trace program to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Read more...Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19
An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.
Read more...Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Read more...Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters
Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.
Read more...From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts
Video evidence can be read very differently, depending on the assumed or actual context. How can courts prevent misuse?
Read more...Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”
Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.
Read more...How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class
A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.
Read more...CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases
The CDC’s latest move in contrary to the interest of sound public health and science.
Read more...Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence
Michael Hudson and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of the Poor People’s Campaign discuss Biden “reforms” and the (mis)use of religion in economic justice.
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Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.
Read more...Is This the Beginning of the End for Labour?
Brexit and Covid should have paved the way for a Labour romp. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories and lost.
Read more...Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Taking an Irish Turn
Today’s musical interlude features Irish string performers in traditional and more contemporary styles.
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