Category Archives: Guest Post

COVID-19 and Class in the United States

Globalization , globalizers, and COVID-19.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Coronavirus stats, no polls, Cuomo, Sanders, unemployment statstics, GDP, gold, influencers, Walmart, the Montreal Protocol, #COVID19 needs a Manhattan Project, #COVID19 and Canadian single payer, Thomas Piketty, corporate logos re-imagined with social distance

Edible Forest Gardens: A Quick Review of a Very Beautiful and Useful Book

A permaculture gardening book for those isolated and seeking a project, or just a good read.

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Letter to G20 Leaders (“The G20 must act now”)

Delaying emergency measures in emerging and developing economies will lead to unimaginable health and social impacts which will come back to haunt us for decades. The G20 must act now.

Links 3/26/2020

Michael Hudson: A Brady Bond Solution for America’s Unpayable Corporate Debt

Another sign that America has gone banana republic: Brady Bonds, used in the Latin American debt crisis, would be suitable medicine for our corporate debt hangover.

Links 3/25/2020

Coronavirus Kayoes U.S. Recycling

Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..

How Far Will Trump Go To Save U.S. Shale

The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?

‘This Is a Massive Scandal’: Trump FDA Grants Drug Company Exclusive Claim on Promising Coronavirus Drug

Granting “orphan” drug status to Gilead Sciences for remdesivir, its potential coronavirus treatment, is a massive boon to the company.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/24/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Stimulus, Biden as idea, “back to work in two weeks” say elites, manufacturing, container shipping, grocery supply chain, Ford and ventilators, Roubini on depression, gardening, Antarctica, rich behaving badly, chloroquine, #COVID19 and antibiotic resistance