How the Labor Movement Can Make the UAW’s 2028 General Strike Dream Come True
This could be the beginning of the most exciting resurgence of American organized labor power in a century.
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UN Special Rapporteur Calls Out Walmart, Amazon, DoorDash as Creating Poverty by Not Paying Living Wages
Major companies like Walmart create poverty via obscenely low pay, most recently confirmed via a UN special rapporteur.
Read more...PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet
More on why public private partnerships, aka PPPs, amount to private enrichment at public expense, not just governments but also users.
Read more...Why Fossil Fuel Companies Can’t Leave Resources Stranded
A discussion of how fossil fuel companies’ imperatives and our legal regime preclude getting them to leave oil and gas in the ground.
Read more...Even Rich Nations Now Worried About ISDS
Yves here. In the US, Public Citizen deserves a great deal of credit for turning policy-makers against the multinational-favoring, national-law-and-regulation-gutting “free trade agreement known as ISDS, or “investor state dispute settlement. These disputes are arbitrated by secret panels with no appeal and pro-corporate cronies acting as deciders. Public Citizen’s relentless digging got key bad facts […]
Read more...FDA Confirms IM Doc Concerns About Pharmacies Pushing Covid Boosters + Other Vaccines in Same Visit
Flu vaccine upselling as yet another chapter in medicine, American-style.
Read more...Theories of Economic Crises
How different economic theories, or more accurately, stories, about crises, have profound impact on policy.
Read more...With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!
Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...The Art of the Mini-Trade Deal: 2,000 Missing Variables and Counting
EU trade policy also relies to a large extent on ‘mini-deals’. The scope and the legal nature of these mini-deals vary considerably, and while most are invisible, some of them may be quite important in terms of their impact on trade.
Read more...Russia, China Unite Against US Empire
Michael Hudson on China’s wobbles, Russia-China cooperation, the revolt against colonialism and neoliberalism, and the conflict in Gaza.
Read more...After Poland’s Elections: Democracy and Keynesianism?
A divergent take on Poland elections: PiS lost becaue it promised to address the costs of 1990s shock doctrine but then did little.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Afflict More Cohorts Than Case-Deaton Originally Found
Deaths of despair turn out to be more widespread than thought earlier. Yet lack of interest in this collective tragedy persists.
Read more...Europe’s Anti-Immigrant Governments Learn to Love Immigration
European “nationalist” governments embrace EU-prescribed austerity and pursue exploitable immigrant labor for their overlords despite running on anti-immigrant platforms.
Read more...‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
“Sacrifice zones”—pollution hot spots—are a front line in an often deadly and steadily growing health crisis across the United States
Read more...In the Footsteps of Ptolemy: The ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ and the Inflation of 2021-2023
The impenetrability of this continuously expanding Ptolemaic New Keynesian monetary paradigm is maddening.
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