Plastic Surgery Mills, Many Owned by Private Equity, Sued for Producing Disfiguring Injuries and Deaths
The rise of private-equity-owned plastic surgery mills has produce patient litigatation, often with damning details.
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Cruel Executive Order on Homelessness Is Also Ineffective Policy—Unless Goal Is to Discipline Workers and Boost Prison Industry
Blaming homelessness on mental illness and drug addiction deflects attention away from true culprit of American rapaciousness.
Read more...Trump’s Push for More Deportations Could Boost Demand for Foreign Farmworkers With ‘Guest Worker’ Visas
More slave labor was always the goal.
Read more...Israel’s Atrocities Have Destroyed Its Reputation and Its Security
Netanyahu’s survival strategy, which now includes starving children, is putting Israel at risk in a big way.
Read more...A Pox on Optimism!
Why I have had it with optimism.
Read more...Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse
Your humble blogger has difficulty with the thesis of this post: “What if collapse is the road to more humane life?”
Read more...Adams Asks Feds to Probe Conditions at Designed-to-Evade Supervision ICE Lockup in Manhattan
ICE lawbreaking continues yet pressure on NYC Mayor Adams so far has elicited only a wet noodle lashing.
Read more...The Incredible Impact of Ozzy Osbourne, from Black Sabbath to Ozzfest to 30 Years of Retirement Tours
We depart from our usual programming to commemorate the death of Ozzy Osbourne.
Read more...How Can the Democrats Win Back the Working Class? Economic Populism
A new report finds that championing progressive economic policies can reverse the exodus of working class voters from the Democratic party.
Read more...Abundance of Accelerationism: Democrat Rebrand Promises to Keep Foot on the Breakdown Gas
If Elon Musk were to really start his own political party, would that signal that the donor class no longer has any use for the Democrats?
Read more...What the World Can Learn from Uruguay as the Global Housing Crisis Deepens
Cooperative housing has been a big success in building affordable housing in Uruguray. But can this model be exported to the US?
Read more...The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages
As safety nets shred, some Christian churches provide key services to the poor while others use the desperation to build political power
Read more...Can This Industry Be Saved? The Case of Natural Diamonds
The once prized diamond is now merely a natural diamond and losing ground to its cheaper manufactured cousins.
Read more...Western Life Is Only One Way to Live
The “march of civilization” is the West’s founding myth. And yes, it’s a myth.
Read more...Hayek’s Bastards and the Rise of Neoliberalism
The Neoliberal turn of late capitalism [1] rules our world. Quinn Slobodian has become the voice of our time in explaining how this has happened and why. In Globalists The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2020), he described, among other things, how the Liberals of Central Europe who became Neoliberals were most […]
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