Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
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Grassroots Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150 Billion in Raises for Millions of Workers, Study Shows
The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Read more...Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Read more...Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...U.S. Vaccine Diplomat Cajoles Producers to Support Low-Cost Off-Shore Vaccine Hubs
The Biden administration should push the WTO to waive COVID vaccine patents before heading off for vacation and encourage U.S. producers to ramp up low-cost vaccine production worldwide.
Read more...Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
Read more...Gurbir Grewal Takes Helm as SEC Director of Enforcement, Breaking BigLaw Stranglehold
The new SEC director of enforcement takes up his post today, the first in this position since 2005 to enter without strong recent corporate ties.
Read more...Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 7 – Domestic U.S. Travel Picks Up but International Demand Remains Crippled
Hurbert Horan explains how major airline operators are still engaging in magical thinking.
Read more...Beware of World Economic Forum/Gates UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.
Read more...FTC Votes 5-0 to Crack Down on Companies For Thwarting Right to Repair
FTC issues new policy statement announcing a tougher enforcement stance on company repair and warranty practices.
Read more...As Scientists Have Long Predicted, Warming Is Making Heatwaves More Deadly
Twenty years ago the IPCC warned of summer heatwave deaths in unprepared temperate regions like the Pacific Northwest.
Read more...Financial Times: “Things Could Fall Apart for Biden”
Even Biden loyalists are getting nervous.
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