Category Archives: Guest Post

Calls for Paid Leave Grow as Workers Face ‘Vicious Cycle’: Their Jobs or Covid Safety

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls lack of access to paid sick leave in the midst of a pandemic “barbaric.”

Warmest U.S. December in History Caps a Stormy, Mostly-Sizzling Year

The year 2021 produced 20 billion-dollar disasters, the second highest number going back to 1980, according to the NOAA.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2022

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Fashion Act: New York Lawmakers Take Aim at the Climate Impact of Fashion Company Supply Chains

New York State legislators will now consider the Fashion Act, a new measure intended to reduce the climate impact of fashion company supply chains.

Links 1/10/2022

Michael Hudson: What is Causing So Much Inflation?

Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout.

A Movement to Organize Against the Systemic Corruption of Congress

Since Citizens United, systemic corruption as a subject of discussion has virtually disappeared from public awareness.

The Bitcoin Challenge: How to Tame a Digital Predator

Public authorities should refrain from taking measures supporting additional investment flows into Bitcoin and should treat it as rigorously as the conventional financial industry to combat illicit payments, money laundering, and terrorist financing

Links 1/9/2022

Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence

How using the military alliance NATO for Euroepean-loyality-building ends has made it more and more of a threat to Russia.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/7/2022

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The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics

Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.

Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites

Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it