Omicron Happy Talk in the US v. Toughening Restrictions in UK, Israel
An attempt to pull some signal out of a lot of Omicron noise.
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How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers’ Lives
Build Back Better promises to strengthen OHSA. Why is it is in such sorry shape and why has Team Dem said little about workers’ protection?
Read more...Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court Throws Ball Back to Biden
Surprise, surprise. Biden’s Supreme Court commission fails to endorse any plan to expand the membership if the Supreme Court.
Read more...How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Sixty years after Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex, the “weight of this combination” of corrupt generals and admirals, the profitable “merchants of death” whose goods they peddle, and the Senators and Representatives who blindly entrust them with trillions of dollars of the public’s money, constitute the full flowering of President Eisenhower’s greatest fears.
Read more...Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past
Climate adaptation in the global South needs to be addressed through development. Moving from de-risking to diversification requires a developmental state committed to ‘green’ industrial policy – involving investment and technology.
Read more...Biden’s Faltering Speech on His Covid “Winter Plan”
Faltering on policy, faltering on politics, faltering in speech.
Read more...Oslo Omicron Outbreak a Textbook Aerosol-Driven Superspreader Event; Biden “Vax-Only” Policy Totters
“Vax Only” is Biden Roulette.
Read more...Is It Time to Change the Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’?
Scientists and public health officials are debating when it will be time to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated
to include a booster shot.
Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties
The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.
Read more...The US Biofuel Mandate Helps Farmers, but Does Little for Energy Security and Harms the Environment
Why biofuel is a scam, except perhaps as a subsidy to Big Ag.
Read more...The Case of Igor Tarakanov Who Shot Down MH17 Before Shooting Himself in the Foot
Flight MH17 is baack…under some pretty dodgy-looking premises.
Read more...How Would the Left Treat an Illegitimate Election?
The lack of any interest in improving election systems in the US leaves what purports to be the left exposed to chicanery.
Read more...Profiting from the Carbon Offset Distraction
Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit and undermine efforts to cut greenhouse gasses.
Read more...Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Call or write your Congresscritters to amplify the >1,500 physicians who warn that “direct contracting” threatens “Medicare as we know it.”
Read more...Foreclosure Looms for Homeowners Who Thought They’d Won, Thanks to Top New York Court Ruling
Foreclosure suits from the financial crisis era get a new life thanks to a ruling by a conflicted New York judge.
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