This Oakland Institute study documents how the neoliberal project proceeds, with US interests pushing to privatize land in the Global South.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Coronavirus Shows the Dangers of Letting Market Forces Govern Health and Social Care
The coronavirus crisis showcases the folly of letting the market determine health and social care: high time for governments to listen,
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App
Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
Save the Tiger, Shift to other Big Cats: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Rise in Zoonotic Diseases
Second UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Wildife Crime Report connects illegal wildlife trade to increase in zoonotic diseases.
Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in the Pandemic
Next showdown in Congress over CoVID-19 relief legislation: protecting workers or shielding employers from lawsuits.
Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2020
COVID in the US vs. the world, morbidity. Disney ~ Biden advertisement ~ Sanders on politics ~ Trump and his base ~ Democrat Senate haul ~ Democrat Milwaukee plans ~ General AI ~ Phishing equilibria ~ COVID PSAs ~ Festival of Airborne Transmission ~ Influencers ~ Ghislane Maxwell’s house ~ Genocide in flyover ~ Knitting ~ Shutters
Food Security in the Age of COVID-19: The First Harvest of the Season’s Bounty
Improving the food security of family members who live in North Carolina. They’re starting to reap the harvest as the vegetables ripen.
Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debts, Worthless Shares, Collapsed Prices of Oil & Gas
The day of reckoning has arrived in oil and gas. A record number of companies have filed for bankruptcy. with the epicenter in Texas.
Covid-19 Bankruptcies Bleeding Out Jobs, Economic Capacity
Covid-19 bankrupties show how the disease is draining the economy.
What to Do if COVID-19 Is Here to Stay
If Covid-19 can’t be beaten soon, how do we cope?
Federal Judge Nixes Part of Glyphosate Settlement That Would Allow a Panel of Scientific “Experts”, Rather Than Juries, to Decide Whether the Chemical is Carcinogenic for Future Claims
Judge skeptical over Bayer’s proposal to replace a jury decision on whether glyphosate causes cancer with that of a scientific panel.
