Omicron Cases Serious in Denmark and Overall Morbidity Picture Not Pretty Either
The Omicron news hasn’t gotten cheerier.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
Culture Wars: Identity Politics and the Fight Against Surveillance Capitalism
Why identity politics is just another face of neoliberalism.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: How the Democrats Lost Flyover
The Democrats shafted flyover and flyover is returning the favor.
Read more...Mandatory Household Food Waste Recycling Program Starts in California in January
California to launch mandatory residential food waste management program in January.
Read more...Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets
Agrochemical and pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals.
Read more...How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning
Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.
Read more...Health Experts Worry CDC’s Covid Vaccination Rates Appear Inflated
Quelle suprise! The CDC’s vaccination figures are pumped up!
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
