Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a ‘Toxic Lie’ Pushed by Plastics Industry
More confirmation that recycling is no solution to relentlessly rising plastics use and health damage.
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How Wage Increases Became the Fed’s Red Line
How the Fed’s use of wages as a key inflation measure started as a war on labor and continues to operate that way.
Read more...Is Male Infertility Contributing to Falling Birth Rates?
RFK, Jr. is exercised about falling birth rates and depicts falling sperm count as a major contributor. How sound is this view?
Read more...Trump Administration Supporting Bayer at Supreme Court Over Monsanto/Roundup Deal, Savaged by Investors for Wealth Destruction in the Name of Executive Preservation
Bayer saddled itself with the Monsanto/Roundup garbage barge over fierce investor protest, and is now seeking Supremes relief.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – How DARPA Lost Its Mojo
DARPA once defined the frontier of U.S. technological power, developing the foundations of stealth, networking, and precision-guided warfare. Today its most capable prototypes routinely die in the “valley of death,” casualties of political caution, industrial consolidation, and perverse incentives that punish programs for succeeding. This article examines how DARPA went from the nation’s most creative engine of capability to an agency whose breakthroughs are celebrated but rarely fielded—and what this reveals about America’s broader institutional decline.
Read more...Internet of Beings: The Dream of Digitising Human Bodies for Healthcare (and the Nightmare)
The logical conclusion of the intensive health monitoring fad: an internet of beings of continuous tracking and daily intervention.
Read more...The Lies Being Used to Justify the US’ War Against Venezuela (and Latin America in General) Are Unravelling Before Our Eyes
The war narrative is so disjointed and so contradictory that even the legacy media are picking it apart.
Read more...The Cloud’s Not Fluffy, It’s a Hot, Loud, Energy-Voracious Factory
A more detailed look at why to resist massive pressures for data center buildout and question claims of inevitability.
Read more...Protestor Confrontation with ICE in New York City Appears to Have Stymied Raid; Is There Any Hope for ICE Opposition?
As ICE protests continue, are they succeeding in throwing sand in the gears of the deportation machine?
Read more...Links 11/30/2025
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Import/Export (2007) Run Time 2H 21M
Import/Export is an Austrian film about poverty and power.
Read more...US “R” Us or Tax Sovereignty?
Countries can either capitulate to President Trump’s tax bullying or come together to fight for the sovereign right to tax multinationals fairly.
Read more...The UK Is Cursed: How Finance Destroyed Our Economy
More discussion of how the UK’s post World War II decline was a choice, due in large measure to the embrace of finance and neoliberalism.
Read more...As US Hunger Rises, Trump Administration’s ‘Efficiency’ Goals Cause Massive Food Waste
Feature or bug? 1890s-loving Trump’s policies increase food waste, hurting citizens, farmers, and agriculture processors.
Read more...The Trump Administration Is Now Directly Intervening in Honduras’ Presidential Elections, Confirming a Region-Wide Trend
Honduras may be a relatively small country but there is a huge amount riding on this Sunday’s election result — not just regionally but perhaps even globally.
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