Category Archives: Guest Post
The Oil and Gas Industry is Using the War in Ukraine to Profit and Push Its Interests
Activists warn that calls for energy independence are just “peace washing” the oil and gas that enabled this conflict.
Read more...Michael Hudson Talks with the Saker About the Russian Counter-Sanction of Paying for Its Gas With Roubles
Michael Hudson answers the Saker’s questions about the ramifications of Russia’s “gas only for roubles if you have been mean to us” measure.
Read more...Corporations Are Suppressing Wages—There’s a Fix for That
Don’t buy the hype about wages rising naturally About 1/3 of American workers are underpaid due to the refusal to raise the minimum wage.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2022
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Read more...Meet Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, the DIY Duo Behind the Amazon Labor Union’s Guerrilla Bid to Make History
Workers begin voting Friday at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, culminating an organizing drive by upstarts from their ranks.
Read more...Links 3/25/2022
Unbeknown to Most, A Financial Revolution Is Coming That Threatens to Change Everything (And Not for the Better)
Given how much is at stake, this financial revolution is among the most important questions today’s societies could possibly grapple with. It should be under discussion in every parliament of every land, and every dinner table in every country in the world.
Read more...How Fossil Fuel Governments Control the IPCC
The work of the IPCC is necessary. That’s why it’s important that the UN not be the owners of the go-to reports it issues.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/24/2022
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Read more...How This Month Produced a Mind-Boggling Warm-Up in Eastern Antarctica (and the Arctic)
Why part of Antarctica suffered wildly out of band warmth.
Read more...Links 3/24/2022
The Subtle Psychology of Nudges During a Pandemic
For years, the U.S. and U.K. governments embraced the concept of nudges to change social behavior. Then came Covid-19.
Read more...Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by For-Profit Accel Schools
Yves here. It might seem easy to dismiss the child-warehousing-masquerading-as-education perpetrated by Accel Schools as a charter school outlier. But as this article explains, Accel embodies a new trend to profit-maximization and asset stripping in this arena. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance […]
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/23/2022
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