Covid, the Politicization of Science, and More Questions About the Pfizer Vaccine Approval
How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
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Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Congress to Pass $17 Billion Bailout of Airlines, to Top Off Prior Bailout
Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...Market Capitalism
Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
Read more...An Internal Medicine Doctor and His Peers Read the Pfizer Vaccine Study and See Red Flags [Updated]
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation.
Read more...It’s the Index, Stupid! Our New Not-So-Neutral Financial Market Arbiters
An overview of the recent changes in financial markets that have come from the rise of ‘passive’ investing.
Read more...Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
Why is US journalism in the crapper?
Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
Read more...On the Demise of Universities
More on how neoliberalism has been digging a grave for universities.
Read more...Medical System Cracking: New Rochelle Nurses Strike Over Unsafe Staffing Levels; Washington State Warns of Potential for “Catastrophic Loss of Medical Care”
Medical systems are already under strain due to Covid and some nurses have had enough.
Read more...It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.
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