Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction
Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.
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Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Call or write your Congresscritters to amplify the >1,500 physicians who warn that “direct contracting” threatens “Medicare as we know it.”
Read more...Foreclosure Looms for Homeowners Who Thought They’d Won, Thanks to Top New York Court Ruling
Foreclosure suits from the financial crisis era get a new life thanks to a ruling by a conflicted New York judge.
Read more...Ohio Jury Finds Three Pharmacy Chains Liable in Opioids Trial; Judge to Decide on Damages Award in Spring
This is the first opioids jury verdict yet handed down; thousands of opioids cases remain pending.
Read more...The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Read more...Go Private for the Treatment You Need, NHS Tells Patients
NHS patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals.
Read more...Dirty Dollars: Money Laundering, Steel, and Toxins
Money launderers moved millions into America to buy steel mills — while elected leaders helped them fend off U.S. regulators and foreign competitors, leading to sick workers and mountains of hazardous waste.
Read more...Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out
How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Truth Jihad Radio Discussing Super Imperialism, Rentierism, and the American Political Duopoly
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk, including American policy in the post-war era, how economics ignores debt, and class warfare.
Read more...The Costs of War (to You)
An overview not merely of the egregious spending on America’s wars, but also on how it is fraud-friendly, apparently by design.
Read more...Biden’s OSHA Workplace Vaccine Mandate, Now Stalled in Court, Rejects the Layered “Swiss Cheese” Model for Covid Protection
Biden wants OSHA to do what it can’t (vax), and doesn’t want OSHA to do what it should (ventilation).
Read more...Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...Apple Reverses Course on Right to Repair iPhones: More Concessions to Follow?
Apple announces a Self Service Repair program for iPhones 12 and 13, with broader company right to repair concessions expected to follow.
Read more...More Proof of Biden’s Weak Position: Tasks FTC to Investigate Oil & Gas Companies in Gambit to Rein in High Prices
Why Biden trying to use the FTC as an attack dog against oil and gas companies is a sign of desperation.
Read more...COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior
The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.
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