The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on the fracking beat. The industry lacks even the excuse of profit to justify the environmental costs it inflicts – yet this is a story too little told in the rest of the media, which instead promotes further investments in this sector.
Read more...Commentary on the inadequacy of the UK’s proposed Limited Partnership Reforms
Read more...No matter how bad you think it is at CaPERS, it’s worse.
Read more...CalPERS again insists on doing the wrong thing.
Read more...Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...Why “partner” is the last word you want to hear from the mouth of a bank regulator.
Read more...Amazon has said its new headquarters in New York will create 25,000 jobs for residents—a claim one protester derided as “smoke and mirrors”
Read more...Western countries insist both on “free trade” with poor countries and farm subsidies for themselves.
Read more...Why to be leery of philanthropy, particularly when practiced by squillionaires.
Read more...Debunking the notion of meritocracy.
Read more...Senators Warren, Sanders, Blumenthal, and Durbin, has asked the DHS IG to expand an investigation into misallocation of funds budgeted for repair of hurricane-damaged homes and profit-skimming in Puerto Rico
Read more...UNCTAD’s latest World Development Report criticises the free trade delusion. This short post considers the trade alternative put forward seventy years ago in the Havana Charter — one that was neither nationalist nor neoliberal.
Read more...While parties to the 2015 Paris Accord conduct negotiations in Katowice, Poland, the EPA has opted to weaken coal emission standards promulgated during the administration of Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.
Read more...Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy.
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