Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — And Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
On how the media does (and doesn’t) construct reality.
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French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds
A new study has found Total knew about the links between climate change and fossil fuels 50 years ago.
Read more...India Breaks the Diaper Monopolists. Why Won’t Americans Step Up?
An innovation popular in rural India offers a solution to the diaper duopoly stinking up the budgets of western households.
Read more...More on the Use and Misuse of Anger
More discussion of anger in the social and political contexts.
Read more...The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa
Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.
Read more...John Deere Strike: A Union Member Explains How Bad Faith Dealings Produced Today’s Grievances
A backgrounder from TroyIA, a Naked Capitalism reader and John Deere worker, on what drove union members to strike.
Read more...Spike in Energy Prices Suggests That Sharp Changes Are Ahead
Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
Read more...Brexit: David Frost’s Bluster Can’t Wish Away the Northern Ireland Protocol
Many Brexiters see Article 16 as a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s why they’re wrong
Read more...Officials Double Down on “Let ‘Er Rip” Strategy, Placing Undue Faith in Vaccines as Regions With High Vaccinations Suffer Infection Spikes
Public health officials are again placing too much faith in vaccines as they end key international travel restrictions.
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
Workers are getting uppity. What is surprising is that it took so long.
Read more...Central Asia’s Neoliberal Tragedy
How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Super Imperialism, 3rd Edition
Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism strikes again!
Read more...Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Read more...Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
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