Waste Watch: Why Do We Discard So Many Edible Fish We Pull From the Sea?
New House of Lords report laments failure to slow discarding edible fish back into the sea; Australia also tosses much of its catch.
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The Big Blue Gap in the Green New Deal
Filling in the missing chapter on oceans for the Green New Deal,
Read more...How NGOs in Rich Countries Control their Counterparts in Poor Countries..and Why they Refuse to Resolve it
Many NGOs around the world are fighting inequality between the rich and the poor, but the bigger NGOs are unwilling to fight policies that keep rich NGOs richer.
should also ask themselves why they are unwilling to let others who are less resourced take up the space where their voice can be heard.
Read more...Will Democratic Party Superdelegates Prevent a Progressive Nominee in 2020?
This Real News Network interview discusses the threat of superdelegates intervening in the 2020 Democratic party convention.
Read more...Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
Read more...Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
Read more...Brexit: Will Boris or Won’t He?
Does Johnson have any Brexit wriggle room?
Read more...Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure In California
Hospitals flex their muscles and the public loses.
Read more...It Is Time To Start Forgiving Student Loans – And Here Is What It Will Cost
A far-ranging plan for cleaning up the student loan mess.
Read more...Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
Read more...PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose
A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
Read more...Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia
Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...Kip Sullivan on Why the Bernie Sanders Bill Is Not Single Payer
Jon Gruber’s shabby legacy lives on.
Read more...Should We Tax Wealth?
Kicking the tires of a wealth tax.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
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