Category Archives: Pandemic

Growing Revolt Among Medical Practitioners Against Vaccinating Toddlers for Covid

The campaign to admnister Covid vaccines to under five year olds is not going over well with quite a few medical professionals.

CalPERS Continues to Endanger Employees During Extended Covid Surge Over Union Objections; Falsely Said It Was Complying With California Requirements; Appears To Be Understating Case Count

CalPERS is having employees service the egos of managers by coming to the office rather than protecting them from Covid by teleworking.

WTO 12th Ministerial Conference Continues Sorry Record of Anti-Worker, Anti-Developing Economy Policies

After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.

Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either

More cheery Omicron takes.

Charlottesville, COVID, Trump and the War on Free Speech

How the war against free speech is backfiring….but the perps keep pushing even harder.

Michael Hudson: The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages

The Fed, following neoclassical orthodoxy, hates having ordinary workers properly paid.

Can the Fed Kill This Inflation Without Killing Too Many Other Things First?

Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.

Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters

Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this WTO ministerial than is generally known.

What Is Really Causing Our Inflation: “Inflation in a Time of Corona and War”

Finally! Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation.

US Leads Sanctions Killing Millions to No End

Food crises, stagnation and price increases are worsening. Sanctions against Russia hurt those relying on wheat and fertilizer imports.

Will “Living With Covid”™ Even Be Possible? (Because What About the Brain Fog?)

A review of what we know of Long Covid, with some lateral thinking.

A Small Win Out of Our Post on CalPERS’ Covid Regulation-Breaking and (Yet Again) Fibbing

Our warning about a big Covid outbreak at CalPERS may not have produced any changs there, but it did lead other state agencies to shape up.

CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance

CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.

Unpacking Tucker Carlson on WHO’s “Pandemic Treaty” (So-Called)

Alas, I could only glance at my yellow waders, but there’s still plenty wrong.