Thursday, November 6, 2025
Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports
Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?
Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.
Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/19/2021
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Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos
Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.
An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
Continuing the debate about what needs to be done if there is any hope of saving the planet…for something resembling modern society.
War as the Enemy of Reform: Biden’s Dilemma or His Excuse?
How much is keeping the US on a war footing really constraining Biden on the domestic front?
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2021
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9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.
More Bad Omens for Business Travel, As WEF Axes Tropical Davos and Mobile World Congress Suffers Wave of Cancellations
The cancellation of the World Economic Forum’s Singapore meeting and the gathering exodus of participants from the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona do not bode well for the near-term future of business travel.
How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
Facts and figures on how blind US support of Israel puts Palestinians’ blood on our hands.
