A New Type of Conflict: France’s Ongoing Struggle for Pensions
The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
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Desperation Hidden in Plain Sight: Coastal Edition
Reports of desperation from what some might consider unlikely quarters: the Pacific Northwest.
Read more...“A Who’s-Who” of People Against Progressives’ Agenda: DNC’s Perez Under Fire for Convention Committee Picks
The knives are out. Typical pick: Former Congressman Barney Frank, who wrote an op-ed entitled “Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Bernie.”
Read more...Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
Read more...Dark Satanic Mills Are Not Just a Historical Artifact: MP Castigates Leicester Fast Fashion Factories
North West Leicesteshirer MP Andrew Bridgen demands answer on contemporary working conditions at local fast fashion factories.
Read more...War on Cash: New York City Businesses Must Accept Cash, City Council Decides
New York City Council passes legislation requiring businesses to accept cash to take effect nine months after signing by mayor Bill DiBlasio.
Read more...Precarity: A Political Problem
‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
Read more...Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
Read more...The Lords and Ladies of Discipline: An Interview with Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
Read more...A European Green Deal Will Not Work Without Refocusing Productivity
A welfare-oriented European Green Deal needs to focus on resource and energy productivity, not raising labour productivity.
Read more...Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Read more...The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The myth of magical CEOs seems to break down in the public sector.
Read more...So, You Want To Live Tiny? Here’s What To Consider When Choosing a House, Van or Caravan
Discussing tiny house considerations.
Read more...UN’s Warning that Gaza Will Not Be a “Liveable Place” by 2020 Has Been Realised
The primary cause of this ‘unliveable’ environment is a highly restrictive Israeli blockade, now in its 13th year, which has reduced Gaza to the point of ‘systemic collapse’.
Read more...PolitiFact Wrongly Lets Biden Off the Hook: The Truth About Social Security Cuts
Going after yet another Biden lie.
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