The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.
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Fashion Act: New York Lawmakers Take Aim at the Climate Impact of Fashion Company Supply Chains
New York State legislators will now consider the Fashion Act, a new measure intended to reduce the climate impact of fashion company supply chains.
Read more...Michael Hudson: What is Causing So Much Inflation?
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout.
Read more...The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics
Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.
Read more...Latin America Calls for U.S. to Reduce its Plastic Waste Exports to the Region
Latin American countries chide U.S. for the volume of its plastic waste exports.
Read more...Kellogg Workers OK Contract, Ending 11-Week Strike
The Kellogg agreement still leaves workers vulnerable, says a local union president.
Read more...The Privilege of Staying Home: COVID and the Highly Skilled Workforce
At home work during the pandemic allowed most skilled workers to choose immobility, which could affect future work and migration patterns
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Containers
How international standards enabled containers to be stacked and shipped.
Read more...The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Read more...African Marine Rules Favour Big Industry, Leaving Small-Scale Fishers in the Lurch
European waters are not the only fisheries battleground. In Africa, conflict pits artisanal fishers against industrial forces.
Read more...‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay
Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet
Read more...Probable Vaccine-Escaping Covid Variant Sequenced in Gauteng, South Africa and Spreading Rapidly; Press Underplaying Downside Risk
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.
Read more...Waste Watch: Fast Fashion Discards Pile Up in the Global South
The Glasgow COP26 talks have wound down with little to show, and scant progress in areas such as food, plastics, and fashion that also contribute to our global problems.
Read more...COP26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
COP26 revealed climate activists have a very long way to go, and not necessarily in the way they think.
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