At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.
Read more...The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features
Read more...regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development.
Read more...Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Read more...A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Trying to pull some signal out of the considerable propaganda, um, noise, on Russia and Ukraine.
Read more...Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
Read more...The curious plot so far: an off again, on again Pfizer Omicron booster.
Read more...The Feds throwing money at some parts of Covid care is arguably a precedent to build on. But the US is not exceptional that way.
Read more...No access to Covid home tests beyond the 4 per month per address freebie is yet another proof that Medicare sucks.
Read more...Tested in two hot wars, and during the Cold War, the RAND method for gauging the intention of the adversary predicts this about Blinken – he wants war with Russia; he has no mind for any alternative.
Read more...The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
Read more...Ruminations on our seemingly neverending war, starting with Vietnam….but is that the right frame?
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