This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
Read more...One of the reasons little has changed in economics despite the financial criss showing it to be deeply flawed is the power of the “top five” journals, which show both inbreeding and clientelism.
Read more...Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Latest updates on the right to repair, discussing crucial skirmishes in the ongoing war on waste. The Economist recognizes the important issue, and US DHS supports Apple’s spurious, anti-repair claims.
Read more...Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
Read more...This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Read more...It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
Read more...An effort to put l’affaire Khashoggi in the context of the US-Saudi relationship.
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Passing through JFK is a necessary purgatory for passengers; the Cuomo plan doesn’t address many problems.
Read more...What could the European Commission do if it decided to discipline Italy for defying budget rules?
Read more...Now that China has banned imports of plastic waste for recycling, US plastic waste exports to southeast Asia surge.
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