The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Read more...Estimating where MMT’s inflation constraint on fiscal spending kicks in.
Read more...Why renewable energy has gone nowhere in New York state….the fear that it would produce a death spiral for utilities.
Read more...It’s 2016 all over again, as the press and analysts go to unusual lengths to ignore Sanders’ gains.
Read more...OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
Read more...Witnesses for the HR 1384 hearings include one (known) HR1384 advocate, only two Medicare for All advocates, and no subject matter experts who can speak on budget.
Read more...AI surveillance is more widespread than most people realize…with virtually no checks in place.
Read more...Nader: “There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost.”
Read more...Despite the decades-long effort to privatize Milwaukee’s local school, recent events in that community have shown that public school advocates can successfully fight back against privatization.
Read more...MappingBack can support Indigenous perspectives on territories and resources through spatial representations
Read more...Packed in the Boeing 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.
Read more...A campus debate over free speech illustrates how the neoliberal world view is accepted by people who think they oppose it.
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