Neocolonial ISDS, Abused, Biased, Costly, and Grossly Unfair
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in trade pacts – long abused by opportunists – are slowly being rejected by governments.
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What If We Treated People Who Use Drugs as Full Human Beings?
Does punishing people for substance use worsen the pain and isolation that make drugs so appealing?
Read more...The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Freedom of Navigation: Houthi Attacks Only Part of How a Historical Anomaly Is Unwinding
Open seas, often touted as freedom of navigation, may be on its way out due to US negligence and technology change.
Read more...A Philosopher Looks at Work in Our Modern World
Thinking more deeply about what work is and how it is changing.
Read more...Our Housing Crisis Is Literally Killing People
A society that refuses to provide safe and secure housing for every single person is a failure.
Read more...Looting of Boeing Set to Continue, Epitomizing Decline of Late-Stage AngloSphere Capitalism
Boeing is in far worse shape than is apparent, even with its quality debacles. And the big reason is the company can lumber on despite that.
Read more...AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
AI is projected to consume lots of power. And no one seems to care much that that’s going to increase climate change damage.
Read more...Why Does Russia Produce More Ammunition Than the US?
Russian industrial performance serves as a point of departure for Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson to discuss the shortcomings of capitalism.
Read more...The U.S. Finally Started to Crack Down on Crypto in 2023
An overdue clean-up in crypto has finally started. But will it go very far?
Read more...Our Coming Insecure Energy Future: The Network Conundrum
A key issue for the vaunted energy transition seems not to have gotten the attention it warrants. Reader input appreciated!
Read more...The Left Has a Great Story to Share About Alternatives to Capitalism—But Sucks at Telling It
Why is the left so lousy at messaging?
Read more...Rob Urie: The End of the World as We Know It
How world leaders and big money interests are resorting to increasingly desperate and destructive strategies to maintain their grip on power.
Read more...Young Activists Working for Change
Young activists are more prevalent and effective than our orthodoxy-enforcing media and pols would have you believe.
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