New Study Reveals Greenwashing as Key Obstacle for “Sustainable” Funds
Sustainable fund managers have discredited the sector by being way too company-friendly, such as accepting greenwashing claims.
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Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire
This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party
Read more...Why Is Tony Blair So Keen for the UK’s National Health Service to Sell Off Its Patients’ Health Data to Private Companies?
What is being proposed is obviously a terrible deal for NHS patients. But could the Tony Blair Institute’s biggest donor benefit handsomely?
Read more...Why Elon Musk’s ‘Self-Driving’ of Tesla’s Board and Its Decision to Pay Him $56B Collided with the Law – and What Happens Next
Elon Musk learned a costly lesson: he is not bigger than the law, here administered by a Delaware court judge.
Read more...Attrition War — How Israel Is Losing on the Economic Front
An update on the impact on the war on the Israel economy, and the efforts to mitigate it.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/5/2024
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Read more...The Concept of Just War and Outlines of the Just War Theory in International Relations
A primer on the development of the concept of a just war and what it is considered to mean today.
Read more...German Establishment Prepares to Cross the Rubicon
A questionable report on a deportation plot causes a nationwide meltdown. A ban of the Alternative for Germany party is looking likely unless it loses support. Farmers and strikers join government’s enemy list.
Read more...Book Review — “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture”
How algorithms screen and amplify social media content so as reward artists for reworking familiar forms.
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...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2024
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Read more...Ukraine: Breakthrough on All Fronts Ahead of Schedule
The over-anticipated collapse in Ukraine’s combat capacity may finally be starting.
Read more...The DEA Takes Aim at Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Misses Badly
“There was no evidence for what they were trying to say,” said former DEA agent Mike Vigil. “I did not see any evidence that López Obrador was involved, had knowledge or intention of receiving ‘hot money’ from drug traffickers.”
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...What’s the Fate of Social Security in a Brutally Unequal America?
Presidential contenders ignore root causes threatening Social Security. Is it due to their reliance on wealthy donors?
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