Hubert Horan: What Will it Take to Save the Airlines?
The airlines are facing an existential crisis, yet no one in power is inclinded or even equipped to intervene.
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The Fleming Myth and the Public Sector Contribution to Discovery and Development of New Cancer Drugs
Abstract, “basic research” is essential to drug discovery. It is also largely funded by the public sector.
Read more...What’s the Earliest a Progressive Democrat Can Be Elected President?
Progressive pickins look mighty slim.
Read more...New Poll Says a Majority of Americans Would Privilege Slowing the Spread of COVID-19 Over Restarting the Economy (Despite the Relentless Assault of Get Back to Work, Slackers! Propaganda)
New ABC-Washington Post poll shows a majority favor halting the spread of COVID-19 over restarting the economy – despite the propaganda blitz.
Read more...Watch: This Is What It Looks Like When the Response to Protests Against Police Violence Is… More Police Violence
Compilation of footage of police response to protests in various U.S. cities over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, plus Amnesty International condemnation.
Read more...EU Stimulus Fakery as Brexit Stumbles Forward
The news on the EU and UK fronts is less than promising. It looks good only compared to rampaging cops on this side of the pond.
Read more...Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public’s View of Protest
Data on media bias in covering protes
Read more...Why New Infrastructure Is a National Imperative
Time to do something about America’s creaky infrastructure.
Read more...U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
Read more...COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Read more...5 Ways to Make Voting Easier for Everyone in America—Even in a Pandemic
Not surprisingly, unfriendly voting methods have a lot to do with the US having the lowest turnout rates among developed countries.
Read more...Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...Craig Murray Documents Abuse of Process, aka Kangaroo Court, via Butchered Indictment
The UK court is play so dirty with Craig Murray that it might make our FISA court look good.
Read more...Bernie Sanders Says It Is ‘Nauseating’ to See Corporations Praise Frontline Workers as ‘Heroes’ While Refusing to Pay Them More
Whatever you may think of Bernie Sanders suspending his presidential campaign, his criticism of corporations who laud workers as heroes while refusing to pay them is spot on.
Read more...Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again
A short history of the fight to make workplaces less dangerous to your health.
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