Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
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The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right”
A look at Europe’s elections and a comparison of the neoliberal, pro-war center with a right that abandons its EU and NATO skepticism begs the question, what’s the difference between the two?
Read more...Book Review: Truth and Consequences for Medical Whistleblowers
In “The Occasional Human Sacrifice,” Carl Elliott notes that those who expose medical wrongdoings are hardly heroes.
Read more...The War Racket in Germany
What happens when everyone starts to believe in the con?
Read more...Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...Italy Pipes Up Against NATO Escalation as Court Ruling Could Cut Off Russian Gas Sooner Than Expected
Italy also faces major energy squeeze from Red Sea crisis. Will opposition to Project Ukraine solidify or will Rome go along as it usually does?
Read more...IM Doc on the Accelerating Decline in American Medicine
On the rot in US medicine….and as you might expect, it started from the head.
Read more...Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
Read more...What ‘The Wire’ Teaches About Institutions
“The Wire” as a worked example on the nature and pace of change. Do you agree?
Read more...“Living in Netanyahu’s America” – In More Ways Than One
The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.
Read more...With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
Read more...The Wars Come Home
Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts.
Read more...US Strategy for Great Power Competition: More Graft and Hope for Wonder Weapons
Venture capital and private equity are playing a larger role in the military-industrial complex leading to even more corruption, lack of accountability and the swallowing up of young minds by the Silicon Valley money pit.
Read more...Boeing and Baltimore Bridge Scandals: Monopolization and Criminal Negligence?
On how recent administrations enabled Boeing’s industry takeover and covered up safety deficiencies at Boeing and in the shipping industry.
Read more...Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?
Putin has said Ukraine conflict is existential threat to Russia, but there are signs the Western capitalist class is dealing with their own existential crises. Will their greed get us all killed?
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