Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
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Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. But this response slows economic growth.
Read more...The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...Almost Half of Spain Is Now Vaccine Passport-Free (At Least for Domestic Uses)
Catalonia becomes the third region in two weeks to drop the digital vaccine certificate. Four regions, including the Community of Madrid, never implemented it for domestic use.
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Read more...Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Reddit, r/antiwork, the FOX Interview, What Was Said (and What Might Have Been Said)
FOX News sharpens the contradictions within Reddit’s r/antiwork
Read more...Covid Situation Continuing to Develop Not Necessarily to the Officialdom’s Advantage
The new Covid news isn’t better than the old Covid news, and some is actually disconcerting.
Read more...The American Hyper-Focus on Individualism Makes Us Poorer, Sicker, and Sadder
Our wealth, health and happiness problems are not individual personal troubles that can be resolved by exhorting people to think or act differently.
Read more...Russia/Ukraine: The Donkey Turd Bomb and US Empire in Europe – How It Began, How It Is Ending
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sets forth what Russia might do next with respect to Ukraine.
Read more...McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment
McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.
Read more...Navigating Russia/Ukraine Warmongering Disinformation
Trying to pull some signal out of the considerable propaganda, um, noise, on Russia and Ukraine.
Read more...California Could Be on the Verge of Passing Single-Payer Health Care
California Assembly Bill 1400 shows that the funding math of single payer healtcare works. But does the politics?
Read more...‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson
Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
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