Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Links 5/13/2021

Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack

You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.

I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw

A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.

Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization

Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/12/2021

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UK Company Law and Tax Enforcement Is So Bad It’s Almost as if the Government Wanted to Encourage Tax Abuse

UK tax scamming goes mass, abusing the contact and trace program to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Links 5/12/2021

Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19

An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.

Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later

Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.

Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters

Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2021

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From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts

Video evidence can be read very differently, depending on the assumed or actual context. How can courts prevent misuse?

Links 5/11/2021

Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn

Mexico has already gone mano a mano with Monsanto before, and it came out on top. But this time it’s on a direct collision course with Big Ag and the U.S. government.

Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”

Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.