Climate Activists Target Banks’ Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests
Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
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Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Read more...Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China
Lawrence Wilkerson looks at the overly-casual talk in the US about nuclear war with China and does not like what he sees.
Read more...Close to 50% of US Workers Can’t Afford to Rent One Bedroom Housing
An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US.
Read more...How a National Infrastructure Program Would Protect Americans From Hurricanes
Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.
Read more...The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About
So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.
Read more...National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers
The National Academy of Science has been caught out repeatedly for not disclosing Big Pharma ties as it issues cronyistic reports
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
Read more...US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.
Read more...Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...Florida Red Tide: Who Will Fix This Mess?
Environmentalists decry the role of corporate polluters and the state of Florida in the state’s red tide mess.
Read more...IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.
Read more...The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.
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