Health Workers Unions See Surge in Interest Amid Covid
The COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled health care union organizing efforts, including a success at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Caolina.
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Trump Designates Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism; Biden Likely to Reverse (Quickly?)
Trump designates Cuba a state sponsos of terrorism. What actually changes? How extensive will Biden’s inevitable policy reassessment be?
Read more...‘Transparency’ and the New EPA Pollution Rule: Ripe for CRA Overturn by the New Congress
The EPA enacted a contested rule on data disclosure and rulemaking. The new Congress willl likely invoke CRA procedures and overturn it.
Read more...New York City Proposes Bill to Regulate Algorithms Used in Hiring
New York City Council proposes bill to regulate the use of hiring algorithms. Familiar issues arise that bedevil similar attempts at effective regulation.
Read more...As the Vulnerable Wait, Some Political Leaders’ Spouses Get Covid Vaccines
KHN continues its coverage of the vaccine distribution shambles, with political spouses allowed to get jabbed before those at higher risk.
Read more...Whoops, Dander Way Back Up: What’s With the Vaccines?
A detailed discussion around the world of some of the many ways officials and executives are impeding the districution of vaccines.
Read more...MAGA Cosplayers Seize Capitol While Cops Flounder
How could a rabble occupy the Capitol despite months of fulminations about a Trump coup and a rally date announced well in advance?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021
Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.
Read more...2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
Read more...The ‘Gateway Drug to Corruption and Overspending’ Returns to Congress. Are Earmarks Really That Bad?
Democrats go for more better pork, aka earmarks.
Read more...Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)
Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.
Read more...2021 Will Be Volatile
Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.
Read more...Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Read more...Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.
Read more...4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout
Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.
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