Food Security: UN Warns People Are Vulnerable to Shortages as the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues
United Nations warns about food security, particularly for the world’s poorest, as the COVID-19 recession overwhelms the globe.
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Trump Administration Hunting Rule Change: Making it Easier to Execute Alaska’s Bears in National Parks
Trump adminstration makes some rule changes that make it easier to execute bears on national land. Is this practice fair and what is hunting anyway?
Read more...Yesterday’s Georgia Primary Voting Debacle: A Preview of November’s General Election?
How Georgia’s voting system enables voter suppression and election theft.
Read more...There’s a Crisis in U.S. Capitalism
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history.
Read more...The European Union Still Hasn’t Considered an Economic Proposal That Can Save It
The European Union has not reached a “Hamiltonian moment.” Its plans are too little, too late, hamstrung by institutional barriers to economic recovery.
Read more...New York Makes Use of Chokeholds a Felony Charge
New York makes use of chokehold a felony charge, nearly 6 years after Eric Garner died. Perhaps cops may think twice going forward.
Read more...Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
Democrats introduce comprehensive policing reform legislation , but without Republican support, the best possible scenario is some repetition of the stimulus mess.
Read more...The Day Is Dawning On a Four-Day Work Week
The four-day work week could be another wild idea that makes it through the pandemic’s open policy window.
Read more...Why I Am Still Worried About the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Balloting Process
Voting in a pandemic
Read more...China’s Covid-19 Recovery Is Intensifying Class Exploitation
China’s response to the pandemic is to furth disempower its domestic and peripheral populations.
Read more...How Africa is Coping With Coronavirus
Politics and the caliber of social programs have influenced how countries in Africa have tried to limit the economic damage of the coronavirus.
Read more...Liz Theoharis: Organizing the Rich or the Poor? Which America Will Be Ours After the Pandemic?
Why the poor will be more successful in gaining material and political ground if they design initiatives and advocate.
Read more...U.S. States Just Lost Pipeline Veto Rights And That’s A Big Deal For Oil
The EPA issued new regulations on pipeline approvals that narrow state authority to intervene. But the fight may not be over.
Read more...The Battle Over Free Speech Online Is a Volcano That’s Ready to Blow
The battlte to control social media keeps getting hotter.
Read more...U.S. Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons
The press has hyped the “gee whiz” factor of space toys while ignoring that exiting the Open Skies agreement will kick off a new arms race.
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