Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
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Poop in the Loop and Other Big Cities
Big cities make dog owners responsible for cleaning up after them, so why is no one making police take care of their horse poop?
Read more...Don’t Miss Our “Come in From the Cold” NYC Meetup This Friday!
A reminder: hope you can attend our NYC meetup this Friday!
Read more...Links 1/6/18
From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
Read more...A Remedy for Corruption
From the health care front, positive developments and ideas to serve as a remedy to the usual diet of distressing news.
Read more...Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...Links 1/5/18
More Power to the Workers: Seymour Melman on Extraction by the Military, Managers, and Finance
Why workers are the nexus of production and prosperity.
Read more...Chaos in Catalonia Hits Barcelona Housing Bubble
Barcelona wanted to take some air out of its property bubble. Will it wind up getting more than it bargained for?
Read more...Amar Bhide: The Case for Traditional Banking
Amar Bhide gives a clearly-written, compelling argument against a supposed banking “innovation,” securitization.
Read more...Tense New England Police Encounter Confirms National Police ID Database
An example of how police are heavy-handed even in affluent, low-crime areas.
Read more...Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
Read more...The Year in Money
A review of money issues…and mainly not bitcoin.
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