AI is Hungry for Power and You Are Footing the Bill
AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.
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How the Green Revolution Went Awry: Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Big Ag, which has shaped food policies, profits more from “innovations “in food production, processing, and distribution than food security.
Read more...When Poverty Makes You Sick: The Hidden Cost of Neglecting Youth Health
A detailed look at some of the many mechanisms that translate poverty into sickness and shorter lifespans.
Read more...England Is Splitting Apart as Labour Collapses
Labour, as many anticipated, is suffering an epic wipeout per early UK elections results. What might come next?
Read more...Heartland Institute Podcast Questions Whether All Americans ‘Should Have the Right to Vote’
Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative, climate-denialist, Trump-adjacent think tank, questions whether all adults should vote.
Read more...The Fertility Panic Is a Racist, Sexist Tool to Push More Austerity
The fertility freakout conveniently ignores that being a mother is not a great deal and that for planetary health, fewer babies is desirable.
Read more...Russell’s Teapot: Dispatches From the Final Stage of the AI Bubble
The AI future sold to markets rests on claims that cannot survive scrutiny, not foresight but hype dressed up as inevitability.
Read more...To Solve Homelessness, Fix the Economy
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps
Read more...Food Stamp Work Rules Don’t Increase Employment, Researchers Say
Quelle surprise! Punitive food stamp restrictions do not produce an increase in work levels.
Read more...Michael Hudson: US Economy is Based on a Ponzi Scheme
Michael Hudson explains the dangers and costs of Wall Street’s Ponzi schemes.
Read more...What Does it Mean to Work Under Algorithmic Eyes?
AI surveillance and algorithmic management threaten worker autonomy and dignity.
Read more...Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist
The battle over 24-hour care shifts has pitted the mostly immigrant women against vulnerable patients who rely on round-the-clock care.
Read more...Democracy Depends on Broad-Based Taxation—History Is Clear About That
How governments raise revenue, as in taxation versus slavery or external extraction, determines their accountability to citizens.
Read more...Economic Questions: Guy Standing and the Rise of the Precariat
Guy Standing’s notion of the precariat, and his policy observations and prescriptions.
Read more...The Causes & Consequences of Orban’s Downfall
“Most Hungarians came to take Orban for granted and won’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone.”
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