School or ‘Russian Roulette’? Amid Delta Variant and Lax Mask Rules, Some Parents See No Difference
A discussion of parents worried about sending their kids back to school curiously contains only red state/nonurban examples.
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Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
Quelle surprise! No one is held accoutable for huge, predictable strategic and moral failures like going to Afghanistan, because profit
Read more...Economic Backwardness and Religious Persecution
The Spanish Inquisition as a case study in the long term economic impact of persecution.
Read more...Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
How the Taliban outfoxed the US.
Read more...Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
The Great Reset is a planned corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines.
Read more...CalPERS Comes Dead Last of 34 Public Pension Returns Despite Having Biggest, Best Paid Investment Office
CalPERS can’t manage its way out of a paper bag.
Read more...Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?
Labor exploitation, higher education edition.
Read more...“RLB Can Suck a Dick”: CalPERS Board VP Theresa Taylor Debases CalPERS, Sneers at Workers and Little People in Unhinged, Factually False Attack on SEIU California President
CalPERS Board VP and Investment Committee chair Theresa Taylor has yet another put foot in mouth and chew incident.
Read more...The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?
Trying to make sense of Afghanistan.
Read more...Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
Read more...Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China
Lawrence Wilkerson looks at the overly-casual talk in the US about nuclear war with China and does not like what he sees.
Read more...Close to 50% of US Workers Can’t Afford to Rent One Bedroom Housing
An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US.
Read more...National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers
The National Academy of Science has been caught out repeatedly for not disclosing Big Pharma ties as it issues cronyistic reports
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
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