Why America Needs a National Program of Paid Sick and Family Leave
Family leave is productive as well as humane, but American management has been keen to keep its boot on workers’ necks.
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European Investment Scammers Allegedly Laundered Their Money through Scotland
Investigations by European and Ukrainian prosecutors revealed an alleged investment fraud with funds laundered via UK corporate entities
Read more...‘This Is a Battle Between What People Need & What Money Wants.’ How’s That Going to End?
Class warfare, American style, is ever more obvious. But how much are ordinary people taking note?
Read more...Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s?
Details on why Congress is addicted handing out military pork as opposed to spending money on citizens’ needs.
Read more...The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years
Clean energy and green growth proponents greatly underestimate the amount of change needed to migrate off fossil fuel sources.
Read more...Smear Campaigns Work: Pro-Transparency Board Member Margaret Brown, Candidate Tiffany Emon-Moran, Both Lose CalPERS Board Election
The California public employees unions that have bizarrely made clear that they are firmly on the side of having CalPERS continue to be poorly run have gotten their way. Pro accountability, pro-transparency board member Margaret Brown, and Tiffany Emon-Moran, who was challenging incumbent and staunch staff David Miller, were both defeated in this year’s board […]
Read more...Will Krysten Sinema Change Parties?
Sinema could and might very well screw the Dems.
Read more...Waste Watch: U.S. Lags on Plastics Legislation
Despite leading the world in per capita plastics consumption, the U.S. lags in efforts to do anything about disposing of plastics waste.
Read more...Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
To bring more chips-making back to the US, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks.
Read more...Climate Advocates Voice Concerns Over Fossil Fuel Handouts in Stalled Infrastructure Legislation
One month after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, infrastructure and “build back better” talk ignores survival needs on climate crisis frontlines
Read more...Ralph Nader: While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible
Politicians from both parties do the bidding of their corporate overlords rather than act on behalf of voters.
Read more...Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’
Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, “perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies.”
Read more...Progressives Defy House Leadership on Vote on Biden $1.5 Trillion “Highway” Bill, Hold Line on Deal for $3.5 Trillion Package w/ Social Services and Climate Change Spending
The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
Read more...Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Read more...Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
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