Despite Federal Moratorium, Eviction Rates Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels
The eviction process is restarting, even when it is premature under the law. What will the collateral damage be?
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Israel-Gaza Clash: Conflict of Narratives, Victory of Remote Warfare
An initial tally of winners and losers in the latest round of Israel-Palestine strife.
Read more...The War That Israel Lost
Tactically, Israel has the better military, but strategically, they are losing international legitimacy.
Read more...Growing Cotton: One Small Sustainable Solution to the World Plastics Problem
The Khamir NGO demonstrates that kala cotton can be grown without copious use of water, pesticides, and chemical fesrtilizers.
Read more...Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden
Aorld Bee Day provided the chance to think about what plants to add to my garden to encorage bees to visit.
Read more...Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?
Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.
Read more...Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.
Read more...Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports
Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?
Read more...Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos
Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.
Read more...An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
Continuing the debate about what needs to be done if there is any hope of saving the planet…for something resembling modern society.
Read more...9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.
Read more...How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
Facts and figures on how blind US support of Israel puts Palestinians’ blood on our hands.
Read more...New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.
Read more...Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.
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