Ursula von der Leyen: Beyond Redemption
Sadly, Europeans look set to continue as victims of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president for another five years.
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Power in Sovereign Debt Markets: Explaining the Uneven Debtor–Creditor Landscape and Its Implications
A long time ago, the US intervened on the side of underwater sovereign borrowers. Private creditors now extract even more than back then.
Read more...US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad’s Murder of Banana Workers
A rare bit of justice, and perhaps also US consciousness raising, over corporate backed murder abroad.
Read more...Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
Read more...Why Did the US Spend $320 Million on a Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?
The infamous Gaza humanitarian aid pier is a construction and logistical nightmare.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...‘Unhinged’ Israeli Ambassador Literally Shreds UN Charter Ahead of Successful Vote Urging Security Council to Reconsider Palestine Membership
Israel has yet another childish temper tantrum over the prospect of not getting its way, here over Palestine membership advancing in the UN.
Read more...Tuberculosis Emergency in California After Death in Homeless Shelter Outbreak; Follows Chicago Migrant Shelter Cluster and Earlier IM Doc Anecdata
The rise in tuberculosis cases as an indictment of US public health and immigration policy.
Read more...The Wars Come Home
Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts.
Read more...Free Speech on the Ropes: Legislation to Revoke Not-for-Profit Status of Organizations that Support Palestine Protests Passes in House
The officialdom has just wheeled out much heavier weaponry in the war against free speech, here targeting not-for-profits.
Read more...US Strategy for Great Power Competition: More Graft and Hope for Wonder Weapons
Venture capital and private equity are playing a larger role in the military-industrial complex leading to even more corruption, lack of accountability and the swallowing up of young minds by the Silicon Valley money pit.
Read more...Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
Why Sotomayor should, erm, take one for the team!
Read more...Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
Read more...Despite Inspector General Demand, EPA Refuses to Re-Do Review of Seresto Flea and Tick Collar Implicated in Thousands of Pet Deaths
The FDA is refusing to redo a review that gave a free pass to Seresto tick collars, implicated in thousands of pet deaths
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