A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.
Friday, November 7, 2025
The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Delta Force: Notes on Our Newest Covid Variant of Concern
The increasingly dominant Delta variant: Vaccines and transmissibility (especially through children) during “Vaccine Summer.”
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2021
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The Framers Would Call the United States of Today Corrupt. And They’d Be Right
The Framers sought to bad a culture of gift giving. How’s that working out?
The Health Externalities of Downsizing
This column finds a significant increase in drug prescriptions and hospitalizations following mass layoffs, driven primarily by mental and cardiovascular conditions
What President Biden and His Media Chorus Revealed about Their War-Fighting Capabilities
Putin and Biden, side by side.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2021
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Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaving Existing Health Care Insurance System in Place
United States Supreme Court upholds Obamacare in the third challenge it has heard on the legislation.
Unions Demand Pelosi and Schumer Include Lower Medicare Age, Drug Pricing Reform in Infrastructure Plan
Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.
Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products
Despite warning that freebies to surgeons might constitute fraud, the feds have yet to ramp up enforcement actions.
CDC Continues on Form: Suppressing Aerosol Transmission in Covid FAQ, “See No Evil” Testing for Breakthrough Cases
Romanov-like efficiency…
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2021
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