CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.
Read more...An increase in global hunger, combined with the rich getting even richer, would seem to set the stage for revolt. But is that in the cards?
Read more...Symptoms and progression, spread, clades, mortality, R, community spread, mode(s) of transmission. And summer festivals.
Read more...Fighting for the right for safe public meetings!
Read more...A look at the impact of voting incumbents out of office.
Read more...Ralph Nader on corporate legal immunity.
Read more...Once hailed as South Asia’s ‘success story’, Sri Lanka has faced months of escalating violent unrest.
Read more...Why the two big stablecoin breakdowns of last week, TerraUSD and Tether, look like frauds.
Read more...Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the US dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.
Read more...CalPERS long-term care victims, um, policyholders: the press is interested in your plight! Use the link in this post to a NYT contact form.
Read more...More sanctions sparring, with the latest US move looking petty and lame.
Read more...How a reversal of Roe v. Wade plus the plans of some states to criminalize abortions as broadly as possible could produce a legal train wreck.
Read more...A new book documents the scale and mechanism of the looting of Africa.
Read more...School bus drivers in Bay City, Michigan, have pushed back against mindless outsourcing of their union jobs.
Read more...One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world’s richest man a “reality check” about how they will respond if he loosens the platform’s content moderation policies.
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