The U.S. Power Grid Can’t Support Its Climate Pledges
Will a smart grid alleviate US power woes?
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Kentucky Retirement Systems Ordered to Disclose Controversial $1.2 Million Report Used to Justify Inaction in Apparent Pension Looting by Hedge Funds
Kentucky Retirement Systems had a bad day in court, which is a good outcome for Kentucky citizens.
Read more...‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response
Yves here. This is the first time I’ve come across the People’s CDC, and I like the cut of their jib. They have a series of demands for Covid action. And while continued “access” to vaccines is on the list, it’s their dead last action item, with N95 masks and ventilation and testing and improved […]
Read more...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Steele
An alternative thesis on RussiaGate 2.0.
Read more...Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”
More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...Biden’s Gimmie to the Higher Educational Complex and Well-Off, Dem Leaning Voters: The $10,000 Student Loan Writeoff
There’s a lot not to like about the Biden student loan forgiveness scheme.
Read more...The Australian Labor Party Embraces the Authoritarianism of a Political System in Crisis
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Australia is currently lurching from one revelation to another through a constitutional crisis that nobody near power will acknowledge the severity of. As it emerges that the former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly appropriated a number of ministerships for himself, the now-ruling Labor Party is […]
Read more...Ukraine Could Abandon Key Labour Principle as Part of EU Drive
John here. In the midst of the current conflict, somehow Zelensky’s National Council for the Recovery of Ukraine from the War has found time to work on dismantling the collective bargaining structures in the country and undermining workers’ rights. However and whenever Ukraine eventually emerges from the conflict, it seems certain that Ukrainian workers will […]
Read more...A Marine’s Assessment of Russia’s Military “Operation” in Ukraine (a “Profound Appreciation of All Three Realms in Which Wars Are Waged”)
A dissident view on Ukraine. The first of many?
Read more...Third Time May Not Be Charm for Patel as Voters Reluctant to Embrace Generational Change
A case study of why voters are inclinded to stick with office-holders well past their sell-by dates.
Read more...America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
Read more...Italian Technocrats Allow the Right to Weaponize Democracy
Why the Italian right looks set to go from strength to strength.
Read more...Think the Financial Crisis Is Over? Mortgage Servicers Still Abusing Borrowers For 10+ Years, Thanks to Lax Fannie/Freddie Oversight
Mortgage servicers are torturing borrowers who have been unable to pay for over a decade. All they are doing now is ripping off governments.
Read more...Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
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