Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
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Dark Satanic Mills Are Not Just a Historical Artifact: MP Castigates Leicester Fast Fashion Factories
North West Leicesteshirer MP Andrew Bridgen demands answer on contemporary working conditions at local fast fashion factories.
Read more...Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.
Read more...Boeing Again Pushes Back Guesstimated 737 Max “Good to Go” Date to Mid 2020 as Company Bleeds Cash
Yet more bad news for the 737 Max.
Read more...Jeff Bezos’ Not So Excellent Indian Adventure: Modi Government Disses Inept Amazon
India’s top BJP ministers show cold shoulder to foreigner bearing “gifts”- the Amazon promise to create jobs- and push back accordingly.
Read more...Brexit: Digging In
Brexit again gets ugly.
Read more...How Climate Change Influenced Australia’s Unprecedented Fires
Looking harder at the Australia and California fires.
Read more...SEC With Investment Managers: “Like the FBI Sitting Down With the Mafia”
A law firm partner discusses SEC capture as if it were perfectly normal….which sadly, it is.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Senate Passes Save Our Seas Act 2.0
Senate pauses Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, which fails to address the issue of overproduction of plastics.
Read more...Fossil Fuel Interests Applaud Trump Administration’s Weakening of Major Environmental Law
Trump administration capitulates to fossil fuel industry with proposed roll back of bedrock environmental protection law, the National Environmental Policy Act.
Read more...Big Pharma Won’t Let Us Import Drugs From Canada, But Insists on Sending Carcinogen-Contaminated Pills to the Public
Overpriced and even contaminated drugs prove US policies are deadly.
Read more...Climate Change: Bad News from Australia, Indonesia, and the US
NOAA releases summary of US climate data from 2009, including catastrophes, while Australian burns and Indonesia floods.
Read more...Oil and Gas Emissions Are Reversing Progress from Coal’s Decline
More grim emissions news….
Read more...American Pot Is The Gold Standard. But Canada Leads The Export Game — For Now.
Lambert here: There’s opportunity here for Presidential candidates with a little courage, particularly if amnesty is coupled with legalization. By Markian Hawryluk, the senior Colorado correspondent for KHN, based in Denver. He has reported on health care for more than 25 years. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. DENVER — In a large warehouse, LivWell […]
Read more...FAA Considering Mandatory Simulator Training for Boeing 737 Max as New Hardware Problem Surfaces
The FAA and Boeing may be moving towards a deal.
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