Climate Denial Satire “Don’t Look Up” Now Top Film on Netflix Worldwide
Mirabile dictu! An allegorical climate change film becomes a hit. And a billionaire is the bad guy.
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Coal On Track To Break Records Despite Efforts To Curb Production
So much for coal being on the way out….
Read more...Kellogg Workers OK Contract, Ending 11-Week Strike
The Kellogg agreement still leaves workers vulnerable, says a local union president.
Read more...Why America’s Military Leaders Need to be Purged
Why the US miliitary desperately needs a housecleaning, starting at the top.
Read more...How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in Their Union Fight
How Starbucks, long hostile to unions, lost a fight with workers in Buffalo despite management pulling out all the stops.
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
Read more...The US Doesn’t Have Enough Faculty To Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Nurses’ ranks were being hollowed out even before Covid due to not instructing enough to fill rising needs. That shortfall getting worse.
Read more...Culture Wars: Identity Politics and the Fight Against Surveillance Capitalism
Why identity politics is just another face of neoliberalism.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: How the Democrats Lost Flyover
The Democrats shafted flyover and flyover is returning the favor.
Read more...Share Buybacks Surge to Record Ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow
Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but company buybacks are red hot.
Read more...How To Compare Incomes Across Countries
Economists’ comparisons of incomes make social democracies look bad by not attributing value to government healthcare and cheap college.
Read more...Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy?
Lessons from the ice cream factory
Read more...Why Amazon Is Terrified of Its U.S. Workers Unionizing
Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the US. By Sonali Kolhatkar, the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations and […]
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