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Sunday, July 27, 2025
Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Why women and blacks are more at risk of misdiagnosis than white men. But what to do?
ECB and EU Commission Seek to Prevent EU Member States from Constitutionally Enshrining Right to Use Cash
Are national governments in the Euro Area about to lose another vital piece of their economic sovereignty?
Rob Urie: The End of the World as We Know It
How world leaders and big money interests are resorting to increasingly desperate and destructive strategies to maintain their grip on power.
Young Activists Working for Change
Young activists are more prevalent and effective than our orthodoxy-enforcing media and pols would have you believe.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/18/2024
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World Bank Enables Foreign Aid Theft
The World Bank encourages governments to reduce capital controls, draining precious foreign exchange and government resources.
You Could Have a Wealth Tax Raising a Few Billion or Major Reforms to Existing Taxes That Could Raise £100 Billion or More? Which Would You Prefer if You Wanted To Tackle Inequality?
Watching Davos is enough to make many buy pitchfork futures or push for a wealth tax. But there are better ways to skin fat cats.
Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
An anatomy of how one-time key progressive institutions like NPR were converted to the neoliberal cause.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2024
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As Presidential Hopefuls Spar on Social Security, Separating Fact from Fiction
Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension, explains the campaign of sneak attacks and misinformation against Social Security.
