Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
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New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
Read more...Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Read more...Privatized Regulators and Corrupt Corporations Caused Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire, Now Threaten Collapse of UK Housing Market through “Cladding Crisis”
Tne Grenfell Tower Inquiry digs up some gruesome corporate dealing, plus the UK’s property market could seize up.
Read more...What Is Exploitation in the Context of ‘Modern Slavery’? A Legal Proposal
The absence of clear parameters for determining what counts as exploitation allows states to misclassify victims.
Read more...Brexit: The Barnier Cliff
December 31 is a Barnier deadline too.
Read more...Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives
The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.
Read more...Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.
Read more...Brexit: Decisions
The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.
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