Yearly Archives: 2021
Lithium, cobalt, and rare earths
The post-petroleum resource race and what to make of it...
Our responsibility to South Asia
Future generations will remember what the world did, or failed to do, in the face of South Asia’s devastating second wave of the virus. India and its neighbors desperately need more vaccines, oxygen, and other supplies, and it is in everyone else's interest to provide them as fast as possible.
The justice McDonald’s workers seek workers at Spain’s Mondragón have found
We don’t have to organize our economy around enterprises that pay CEOs over 1,000 times what workers make.
…‘Wrapped in a flag…’
That is always how fascism operates. You find scapegoats to pin the blame on and off you go... right to the poorhouse.
20 companies are responsible for producing over half of all single-use plastic waste
“Since most plastic is made from oil and gas – especially fracked gas – the production and consumption of plastic are becoming a significant driver of the climate crisis.”
China beats USA by following Western classical economics!
America must acknowledge its systemic problems and implement structural reforms that curtail financial capitalism and embrace smart industrial policies.
Charges filed against police officers for fracturing elderly woman’s arm
“Ensuring public trust in law enforcement and in our criminal justice system is vital to our community’s safety and our fundamental belief in fairness.”
If we don’t protect 30% of the natural world by 2030, Earth may be...
We are to blame for the biggest extinction event in human history. But there is a solution if we take urgent action now.
FEC sued for not cracking down on dark money group that opposed Sanders’ presidential...
Erin Chlopak of the Campaign Legal Center said that this “is yet another example of the agency’s dysfunction and its disregard for the campaign finance laws it was designed to oversee.”
Netanyahu soldiers on
The only winner in the perennial confrontation between Israel and Hamas: Benjamin Netanyahu.