Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets
The failure to rein in police shootings of people of color is leading to new calls to defund the police. Top Dems remains silent.
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Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
Read more...UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth
Read more...It’s Time For a Green Social Contract
The green transformation will have far-reaching socio-economic implications. Action is needed to ensure domestic and international social equity and fairness.
Read more...Measuring Human Capital: Learning Matters More than Schooling
Global progress in learning has been limited over the past two decades, even as enrolment in primary and secondary education has increased
Read more...Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...Martin Luther King’s America Redux: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Liz Theoharis commemorates the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.
Read more...Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Read more...Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Read more...End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Read more...Cabin Fever: Americans (of Means) Keen to Travel. How Many Will Play it Safe?
The travel genie is about to leave the bottle.
Read more...New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools, Based on Outdated, Cherry-Picked, and Misinterpreted Data, Put Students, Teachers, and Communities at Risk
Pushing to reopen schools based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence.
Read more...We May Be Living in a Moment of Misplaced Optimism
The current bout of optimism looks too close to giddy for my comfort. And yours?
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