The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.
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Resist Inflation Phobia Coup
Efforts to cure inflation, at least for poorer countries, will prove to be more damaging than the disease.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
Read more...‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
Read more...The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.
Read more...How a Cooperative Run by the Formerly Incarcerated Is Reshaping Chicago’s Food Industry
In Chicago, the formerly incarcerated are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Read more...Why Young Workers Are Driving a Wave of Unionization
The young are again on the forefront of change, now by challenging neoliberal atomization and indoctrination by forming unions.
Read more...Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Reddit, r/antiwork, the FOX Interview, What Was Said (and What Might Have Been Said)
FOX News sharpens the contradictions within Reddit’s r/antiwork
Read more...The American Hyper-Focus on Individualism Makes Us Poorer, Sicker, and Sadder
Our wealth, health and happiness problems are not individual personal troubles that can be resolved by exhorting people to think or act differently.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Container Lashing
The material realities of the ocean and the workers lashing down the containers.
Read more...McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment
McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.
Read more...California Could Be on the Verge of Passing Single-Payer Health Care
California Assembly Bill 1400 shows that the funding math of single payer healtcare works. But does the politics?
Read more...‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson
Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
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