Iraq Is on the Brink of an Energy Crisis
A case study of the struggle for influence in Iraq.
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War for Fun and Profit
A look at the US war machine.
Read more...Iowa, Democrats, and Elite Incompetence
Team Dem gets lots of egg on its face in Iowa.
Read more...Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing
Uber and other gig economy employers: “Let them eat a charter.”
Read more...Cybernetic Opioid Pushers: EHR Vendor Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Practice Fusion solicited payments to manipulate MDs to prescribe opioids….illustrating how electronic health care records insert themselves in treatment.
Read more...US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Read more...How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
Read more...#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers
SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.
Read more...The Dead Zone Downstream: Gulf Edition
The cost of modern agriculture, as measured by a growing oxygen-free patch in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more...A New Type of Conflict: France’s Ongoing Struggle for Pensions
The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
Read more...US Firearm Related Mortality
Firearm death rates are up on a broad basis in the US, and no one yet seems to know why.
Read more...“A Who’s-Who” of People Against Progressives’ Agenda: DNC’s Perez Under Fire for Convention Committee Picks
The knives are out. Typical pick: Former Congressman Barney Frank, who wrote an op-ed entitled “Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie.”
Read more...Puerto Rico: Earthquake Aftershocks and Aftermath
Thousands of the inhabitants of Puerto Rico still huddle in outdoor shelters, and FEMA has yet to approve assisted rent to relocate people.
Read more...Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
Read more...While Establishment Erupts Over Anti-Corruption Expert Pointing Out Biden’s Troubling Record, Progressives Say: Look at the Troubling Record
Why discussion of Biden’s corruption should not be off limits in the Dem primary contest; Trump will raise these issues in the general.
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