Sunday, July 27, 2025

The return of the far right

Does the far right sees 2024 as its greatest opportunity since the 1930s to push the needle toward fascism?
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Inequality virus: Pandemic widens wealth gap for women, people of color as billionaire profits...

“In every country that we looked at, inequality has gotten worse during the pandemic.”

Oil Manipulation, Hydraulic Fracturing and the Ruthless Control of the Oil Industry

While the Standard Oil Trust fixed prices, set production quotas and ruthlessly forced out competitors, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has control of the industry. If history repeats itself, will the oil industry respond with market manipulation?

Beware corporate Covid propaganda

CEOs say they’re cutting their own pay in solidarity with laid off or hurting workers — only, not really.

Why America needs to go big on infrastructure

All these sectors require attention now because they work together like cement to keep society functioning.

What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?

“We can have huge wealth in the hands of a relatively few people or we can have a democracy. But we can’t have both.” We need to get big money out of politics.

US press horrified by Trump’s “shoot migrants in the legs” but ignores what Israeli...

The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media managed to report without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy.

Back to Cold War 2.0 with Biden and his ‘diplomacy-favoring’ Secretary of State Blinken

Who’s the U.S. to demand that Russia free anyone?

Supreme Court sides with Biden administration: Razor wire removal at US-Mexico border allowed

The court's decision comes amidst broader national conversations about border management and immigration enforcement strategies.

Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street

Wall Street is back to many of its old tricks. But the bigger they get, the more likely it is that the government will bail them out if they get into trouble again. So what needs to be done to tame Wall Street?