Vaccine Politics Not Working to Biden Administration Advantage
Omicron and vaccine hesitant essential workers are undermining Biden’s vaccine-fixated Covid strategy.
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Fifty Coral Reefs Selected as ‘Arks’ to Survive Climate Crisis
Australian scientists employ modern portfolio theory to target conservation priorities and generate a list of fifty priority coral reefs.
Read more...How Poorer Citizens Pay the Price of Economic Change in the UK
From the speeding up of deindustrialisation and globalisation that began in the early 1980s to the 2008 financial crisis and the decade of austerity that followed, Britain’s economic system has operated with a built-in inequality bias.
Read more...The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Read more...The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets
Will Turkey’s economic straits prime a big multi-country gas deal?
Read more...Ohio Jury Finds Three Pharmacy Chains Liable in Opioids Trial; Judge to Decide on Damages Award in Spring
This is the first opioids jury verdict yet handed down; thousands of opioids cases remain pending.
Read more...African Marine Rules Favour Big Industry, Leaving Small-Scale Fishers in the Lurch
European waters are not the only fisheries battleground. In Africa, conflict pits artisanal fishers against industrial forces.
Read more...The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Read more...‘We Are Fighting Back’: Global Black Friday Strikes and Protests Seek to #MakeAmazonPay
Workers around the world held Make Amazon Pay protests to obtain fair wages, end Amazon’s tax avoidance, and lower its impact on the planet
Read more...Probable Vaccine-Escaping Covid Variant Sequenced in Gauteng, South Africa and Spreading Rapidly; Press Underplaying Downside Risk
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.
Read more...Gerrymandering Is a Climate Problem
How the upcoming round of gerrymandering is likely to impact climate change remediation campaigns.
Read more...Why Don’t We See Headlines Touting the Pentagon’s Hefty Price Tag?
ions on how the press is a reliable Pentagon cheerleader.
Read more...Go Private for the Treatment You Need, NHS Tells Patients
NHS patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals.
Read more...Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out
How the largely optical, pro-business gestures at addressing climate change were an affront to developing countries.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Truth Jihad Radio Discussing Super Imperialism, Rentierism, and the American Political Duopoly
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk, including American policy in the post-war era, how economics ignores debt, and class warfare.
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