UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder
Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
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As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken?
Devastating footage of Dorian damage in the Bahamas: when will the world take meaningful action to arrest climate change?
Read more...Why Does Teen Vogue Need a Labor Column?
Why indeed? Labor issues are certainly as important to the interests of its readers as are many – if not most – of the issues Teen Vogue regularly covers.
Read more...R.I.P. Immanuel Wallerstein, Sociologist and “World Systems” Theorist
Immanuel Wallerstein on China, Brazil, racism, and the future.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: BoJo loses majority, Biden, Buttigieg, De Blasio, Gillibrand, Harris,O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Williamson, manufacturing (bad), Tesla, Google. history of Medicare for All, slavery, Kaepernick, glamping on Governor’s Island, British life expectancy, mortality
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Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil
While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
Read more...Links 9/2/19
CEO Compensation Increased 940% Between 1978 and 2018, Workers’ Only by 12%
An Economic Policy Institute study shows that the dramatic increase in CEO compensation has a large impact on increasing inequality. Absent the explosive rise in CEO compensation, worker pay could have doubled.
Read more...My First Real Jobs
Shelving books and mowing lawns.
Read more...Links 8/31/19
Bill Black: Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?
Bill Black presents evidence the system is corrupt and rigged against ordinary people – a sentiment with which a new poll shows many agree.
Read more...Clever Tactics “Add Oil” to Hong Kong Protests (and not “Hidden Hands”)
A look at protest tactics in Hong Kong: Umbrellas, Lennon Walls, laser pointers, human chains… And maybe catapults?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/30/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden gaffe, Gabbard, Sanders on foreign policy, Trump, Warren, AOC, anti-fascism, personal income and outlays, consumer confidence, employment situation, robot cars, passive investing bubble, Hurricane Dorian, Joe Rogan, scofflaw coal companies, bail, the hyphen
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