Category Archives: Guest Post
Russia’s Non-Aggression Pact Is an Offer for Germany To Realize the US Won’t Negotiate Because the Blin-Needle Gang Will Fight to the Last German, Then Run Away
How the US plans to leave Europe holding the bag if Russia eyepoking ends up badly.
Read more...Carbon Pipelines in the Hawkeye State
A new, enormous boondoggle?
Read more...The Infrastructure Bill’s Hydrogen Funding Is a Big Win for the Oil and Gas Industry
Even Sen. Joe Manchin admits a major flaw in the industry spin underpinning blue hydrogen’s supposed climate credentials.
Read more...The Magnificent History of the Maligned and Misunderstood Fruitcake
Does the fruitcake get a bum rap?
Read more...How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in Their Union Fight
How Starbucks, long hostile to unions, lost a fight with workers in Buffalo despite management pulling out all the stops.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/17/2021
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Read more...Links 12/17/2021
Climate Change: Where’s the Beef?
McDonald’s continues to dodge meaningful movement on climate change policies, which would require a big shake-up of its beef dominant product mix. Meanwhile, three supermarket chains have dropped Brazilian beef suppliers over deforestation concerns.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2021
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Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge
Vignettes on how care gets compromised as hospitals start to be overwhelmed.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/15/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Nice and long, so you can make your coffee now. Another migratory bird (with accompaniment). * * * #COVID19 Lots of charts today: Vaccination by region: A roller coaster. More data problems? (I have also not said, because it’s too obvious, that if by Bubba […]
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
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