Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing
Amazon has much to answer for, like wage theft and brutal workplace condidtion, and is throwing its muscle behind not being held to account.
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Why U.S. Labor Laws Need a Major Update—The PRO Act Is a Great Start
Biden is proposing some significant changes to labor law. Does the legislation live up to its billing?
Read more...As Pandemic Surged, Contact Tracing Struggled; Biden Looks to Boost It
Biden still wants to ramp up contact tracing. But will it really do much good in the US?
Read more...Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
Monetary policy does not lift boats in at all the same way.
Read more...Criminal Tax Cheat Robert Smith of Private Equity Firm Vista Gets a Pass for Conduct Worse Than Apollo’s Leon Black, Now in Epstein Doghouse
Neil Weinberg and David Voreacos published an in-depth account at Bloomberg of how private equity baron Roger Smith escaped being indicted for criminal tax fraud despite having concealed over $200 million in income. The very short version is that Smith and his allies got to Attorney General William Barr, both through Barr’s former firm Kirkland […]
Read more...Is There Really a Problem with Left Wing Extremism in the UK, or Is the Government Seeking Excuses to Suppress Fair Protest?
Governments on both sides of the pond are in “never let a crisis go to waste” mode. Aggression by the right is cause to stomp on a weak left.
Read more...Guantánamo Prisoner to Joe Biden: ‘The Last Two Decades of My Life Have Been a Nightmare Without End’
Guantánamo is a daming example of American lack of concern over the lives it casually ruins.
Read more...Intellectual Property Cause of Covid Death, Genocide
Refusal to temporarily suspend several WTO intellectual property provisions to accelerate broad progress against the pandemic is genocide.
Read more...Myanmar Coup and Fast Fashion: Sanctions Would Harm Poor Textile Workers
Last week’s military coup has reduced Myanmar’s attractiveness as a source of supply for the fast fashion industry.
Read more...‘Unbelievable,’ Says Sanders, That Some Dems Want to Further Limit Eligibility for Covid-19 Relief Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders denounces Democrats who would narrow eligibility requirements for the next round of stimulus payments.
Read more...America, the Unreliable Superpower: Can Biden Shore Up Its Record?
Biden promises to go back to a US superpower old normal that was still a pretty unsettling ride for our allies.
Read more...Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?
Will 2021 be the year that sees many states adopt a right to repair? Farmers may be the first to benefit, with digital consumers next.
Read more...Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give Us Back Control of Our Data
Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.
Read more...Michael Hudson – Changes in Super Imperialism
Michael Hudson recaps his classic Super Imperalism and extends it to the 21st century struggle for dominance among the US, China, and Russia.
Read more...Betsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country
Even though Betty DeVos was depicted as a textbook ogre, her education privatization agenda is advancing as if it were perfectly respectable.
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