Brexit: Past the Event Horizon
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North American Bird Populations Plunge 30% Since 1970
Study reports 30% drop in North American bird populations since 1970 – a loss of 3 billion birds.
Read more...Trump May Get Much of the World’s Manufacturing Out of China, but It Won’t Be Coming Back to the U.S.
Chimerica” is dead—even if Trump’s trade war ends in a draw.
Read more...Ending Temp Workers Is at Center of Auto Workers Strike
How temp workers are a way to implement Jay Gould’s plan: “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Read more...Iran Doesn’t Want Conflict, Says Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, But Any US-Saudi Attack Would Spark ‘All-Out War’
Iran once again has to tell the West what it ought to have figured out by now.
Read more...The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf Discovers that Rentier Capitalism and Financialization Increase Inequality and Hurt Growth
Martin Wolf has a big think about what is wrong in and discovers rentier activity.
Read more...Urgent Culture For A Foot-Dragging Congress
A climate change museum tour for Congress.
Read more...Two Entrepreneurs Explain Why the Health Insurance Industry Is a Direct Threat to Middle-Class Life
Quelle surprise! Businessmen would rather pay their workers than health care rent extractors.
Read more...What is the Theory of Change in Naomi Klein’s “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal”?
Why is there no Green New Deal already? And what should we do to get one?
Read more...Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts
Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
Read more...America’s Workforce Elderly Workforce To Double By 2028
So, what’s behind the sharp increase that is expected in the oldest work-age demographic?
Read more...Purdue Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Settle Some Pending Opioids Litigation: Sacklers on Hook for Billions?
Purdue Pharma files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Will members of the Sackler family succeed in blunting accountability for the opioids crisis?
Read more...FAA Hoist on Its Own Boeing 737 Max Petard: Multiagency Panel to Issue Report Criticizing Agency Approval Process, Call for Certification Changes
Another FAA self-inflicted wound.
Read more...Brexit: A Repeat of the Turmoil of 1914-1922?
What do critical chapters of British-Irish history augur for Brexit?
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Finally Puts a Health Care Page on Her Campaign Site, Fails to Allay Doubts
A close reading of Elizabeth Warren’s new health care “plan.”
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