Health insurers like Oregon’s Medicaid find it cost effective to give patients equipment to protect them from heat as well as wildfire smoke
Thursday, July 17, 2025
H5N1 Happily Mutates Away, while Public Health Establishment Plods Along, Treating the Virus as a Food Supply Issue, and Not as a Potential Pandemic
Lambert puts on his Mr. Pandemic™ hat.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, and partially open thread ~
“The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector”
The US has launched an LNG war against Russia. How likely is it to prevail?
Could Lithium-Rich Bolivia Be Next On BRICS’ Membership List? Russia Seems to Think So
“BRICS is an organization, not a military alliance. It is simply a platform to agree on positions and adopt mutually acceptable decisions that are based on sovereignty, independence and mutual respect.”
String of Conveniently Timed Spying Cases in Germany Influence EU Elections, Undermine Chancellor’s China Efforts, and Spread Fear of Russian Fifth Column
Spies, spies everywhere.
Big Oil’s Dangerous Radioactive Secret
How workers bear the brunt of the oil and gas industry’s hidden contaminated waste.
College Gaza Encampments: Scale, Tactics, Reaction, Prospects
A tour of the Gaza encampments
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics, and partially open thread ~
Consumer Boycotts Can Inflict More Pain on Israel-Backing Companies than Divestiture
A look at some of the courses of action to impose costs on Israel and its backers, here, economic costs.
Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
