Category Archives: Guest Post

Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports

Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?

Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable

India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.

Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy

During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/19/2021

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Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos

Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.

Links 5/19/2021

War as the Enemy of Reform: Biden’s Dilemma or His Excuse?

How much is keeping the US on a war footing really constraining Biden on the domestic front?

9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability

The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.

More Bad Omens for Business Travel, As WEF Axes Tropical Davos and Mobile World Congress Suffers Wave of Cancellations

The cancellation of the World Economic Forum’s Singapore meeting and the gathering exodus of participants from the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona do not bode well for the near-term future of business travel.

How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians

Facts and figures on how blind US support of Israel puts Palestinians’ blood on our hands.

Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress

More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2021

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Links 5/17/2021

New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation

Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.