This Ironic World: Does Climate Hope Encourage Climate Inaction?
Positive climate change stories give us hope. Does that hope spur indifference?
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Sanders Welcomes End of Major League Lockout But Slams ‘Baseball Oligarchs’
Sanders calls out baseball oligarchs for major league lockout.
Read more...Links 3/10/2022
NYC Courts Issue Rules To Ram Through Gun Cases, Under Political Pressure
A new “all hat, no cattle” gun trial plan shows how much Democrats want to look tought on crime without doing the heavy lifting to tackle it
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Failing the Fix: Grading Apple, Dell, Google, Microsoft on the Ease of Repair of Their Products
US PIRG releases a scorecard, ranking the products of major manufacturers on the ease of repair of their products.
Read more...Inflation Targeting Constrains Development
The rich have influenced most developing countries to prioritize inflation targeting in monetary policy instead of adopting bolder economic policies for growth, jobs and sustainable development.
Read more...‘Appalling’: Moderna Rebuked Over Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Strategy
‘Billionaire CEO shouldn’t get to choose who lives and who dies,’ said one advocacy group after Moderna’s patent announcement.
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Read more...Discerning Volodymyr Zelensky
Billionaire money in Ukraine.
Read more...UK Government Awards CIA-Linked Spyware Firm, Palantir, Another Juicy NHS Contract
There are many reasons why Palantir’s new NHS deal is troubling, including first and foremost the company’s close ties with the US military, intelligence and security agencies.
Read more...Links 3/8/2022
Charts Paint a Grim Picture Two Years Into the Coronavirus Pandemic
The charts tell various aspects of the story, from the deadly force of the disease and its disparate impact to the signs of political polarization and the United States’ struggle to marshal an effective response.
Read more...Supreme Court Hears Case on EPA GHGs Regulation
An important legal test of EPA authority.
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