Avoiding Water Bankruptcy in the Drought-Troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran Can Learn from Each Other
Water woes are becoming part of the new normal. What can be done to alleviate them?
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2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Big Doings up on Capitol Hill! ~
Read more...Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Read more...Links 9/30/2021
Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
Read more...How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Involuntary Psychiatric Care: The Part of the ‘Free Britney’ Saga That Could Happen to Anyone
Involuntary psychiatric care is regularly a financial scam as well as an abuse of personal rights, yet patients often have little recourse.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
Read more...How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Read more...Jared Holst: Rolling with the Holmies
Bad enough that Elizabeth Holmes could conceivably wriggle out of a conviction. Even if she loses. we’ll have to endure her “Holmies”.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
Read more...UK’s National Health Service Still Playing Fast and Loose With Patients’ Health Data
This time it’s patients’ biometrics — their most sensitive data of all — that appear to be at risk.
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