Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been deficient and disorganized, suffering from flaws that plague the U.S. for-profit health care system.
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Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”
Larry Summers is at it again.
Read more...Why Are Shootings Up in New York City? We Asked Four People on the Front Lines
“Becaue Covid” may not fully explain the rise in shootings in New York and other big cities.
Read more...Someone Should Ask Biden Cabinet Candidate Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa
Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.
Read more...New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms ‘Trickle Down’ Theory Is an Absolute Sham
Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Americans’ Hunger During the Coronavirus Pandemic – Here’s What’s Happening in Los Angeles County
More and more Americans are suffering from hunger due to Covid economic stress, as Los Angeles demonstrates.
Read more...Market Capitalism
Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
Read more...DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.
Read more...Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Read more...Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Read more...Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
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