Moscow & NATO Playing a ‘Dangerous Tit-For-Tat Game’ in the Ukraine
The Ukraine-Russia row heats up again.
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White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Brexit: More Thrashing About
Expect Brexit craziness to get even worse.
Read more...As Zuckerberg Refuses to Testify, UK Seizes Thousands of ‘Potentially Explosive’ Documents Facebook Has Tried to Keep Secret
The costs of Mark Zuckerberg’s hubris keep rising.
Read more...Dirty Work: Buying Votes at the UN Security Council
Quelle surprise: pay to play in Security Council votes.
Read more...Taking an Inventory of Senator Bernie Sanders’ Town Halls in 2017 and 2018
How many Town Halls has Sanders done? What were they about? Are there implications for 2020?
Read more...Brexit: Even More Confusion
Brexit politics have become even more deranged.
Read more...‘A Staggeringly Bad Idea’: Pelosi Pushes Tax Rule That Would ‘Kneecap the Progressive Agenda’
Nancy Pelosi proposes a tax rule that would shackle Democrats by requiring a supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom 80% of the population, thus effectively stymieing their ability to enact any major new spending programs.
Read more...The Fracking Industry’s Wastewater Injection Well Problem
The fracking industry has a wastewater disposal problem and finds itself in a pick your poison situation, with no good alternatives. Americans will continue to bear the environmental costs of the nationwide fracking experiment.
Read more...New York Media Touts Private Equity Obamist Deval Patrick as Presidential Candidate
Why is the media covering up that Deval Patrick became wealthy via asset-stripping at Bain Capital?
Read more...Sunrise Movement and AOC Push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, Highlighting Job Creation
Young climate change activists and AOC push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, despite expected hostility in the Senate.
Read more...Labour MPs Should Vote Against Theresa May’s Brexit Deal. It Is a Poison Pill
Labour wants to play a game of chicken with May over Brexit.
Read more...How Trump’s Game of Chicken With Iran Could Weaken the Dollar’s Role as the World’s Currency
Politicizing the SWIFT payments system is leading other nations to the search for alternatives to the dollar.
Read more...A Naked Capitalism Win: No More Poop in the Loop
How a reader documenting a horse dump problem in Chicago’s Loop led to a clean-up.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Amazon Rips Off 238 Cities, States and Provinces, Then Builds in NYC and DC
More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
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