Insurers Signal Fallout From Sanctions On Russia
UK maritime insurers are daring to speak up about the way they have become Russian sanctions collateral damage.
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The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...The Loss of Executive Function in the West
On the decay of executive function, or why just about no one seems able to manage his way out of a paper bag.
Read more...No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
Read more...More American Cities Considering Free Public Transportation
In fits and starts, the idea of free public transportation is getting more of a following in the US.
Read more...As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises
Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.
Read more...City’s Newest Migrants Head Underground Looking to Survive
Migrants are finding it harder to get by in already difficult roles like illegal street vendor work in the subways.
Read more...Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Read more...Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.
Read more...Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?
Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight
Read more...‘Market Fundamentalism’ Is an Obstacle to Progress
Why market cheerleaders are bad for you.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Now Significant Among the Young
The US cancer of deaths of despair has progressed from less educated middle aged whites to the young of all stripes.
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