Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
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Medea Benjamin: 10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy
Medea Benjamin explains why the Biden administration seems firmly entrenched behind Trump’s walls of hostility.
Read more...Postal Service Saboteur Louis DeJoy Is Making Biden And Congress Look Impotent – Or Worse
Louis DeJoy deserves a special place in hell…although a permanent MOF audit might be an adequate punishment.
Read more...Why Can’t the IRS Just Send Americans a Refund – or a Bill?
Believe it or not, it’s not the fault of the IRS that tax return prep is such a hassle.
Read more...End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Read more...Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Read more...Cabin Fever: Americans (of Means) Keen to Travel. How Many Will Play it Safe?
The travel genie is about to leave the bottle.
Read more...The End of Closed Democracy?
Corporate and financial capital still dominate, but politics no longer serves them alone, by putting the interests of the market first. Instead, power is having to listen to people everywhere.
Read more...New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools, Based on Outdated, Cherry-Picked, and Misinterpreted Data, Put Students, Teachers, and Communities at Risk
Pushing to reopen schools based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence.
Read more...How Employers Punish Workers for Forming Unions
How employers play dirty tricks even after unions are voted in. The PRO Act, up for a Senate vote, would stop the worst practices.
Read more...Scoring the $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan and Earlier Covid Relief Programs
How to do a better job of getting relief to those who need it.
Read more...Legalise It: Prohibition’s Repeal and Its Unintended Impact on Public Health
How the US Prohibition remains widely misunderstood and why that matters.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts: It Is Time To Remove The Debt Barrier To Economic Growth
Why it’s time for a widespread debt writedown.
Read more...Biden Stimulus Plan Shores Up Weakest Multi-Employer Pension Plans Rather than Taking on Private Equity Abuses
A Biden rescue of the sickest private pension plans goes largely under the radar.
Read more...Indian Vaccine Manufacturers: U.S. Use of Wartime Export Controls Threatens World Vaccine Production
Will the U.S. relax export controls that threaten global vaccine production? What’s the next step for U.S. vacccine diplomacy?
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