The Pandemic Is Us (But Now Mostly Them)
The pandemic is largely to be over in the Global North, at least among the vaccinated…or so it seems.
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The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...Environmental Activists Call on Biden Administration to Pursue Ratification of the Basel Convention to Block U.S. Exports of Plastics and e-Waste
California lawmakers and NGOs call on the Biden administration to press for U.S. ratification of the 1989 Basel Convention and subsequent amendments.
Read more...G7 Countries Reach Deal on 15% Global Minimum Tax Rate for Multinational Corporations
One critic of the agreement said that “by settling for anything less than a 25% tax rate, the G7 is telling their citizens and the world that they’re willing to keep the race to the bottom alive and kicking.”
Read more...What if Large Businesses Are Really Macroeconomic Entities?
Mega businesses are a huuge problem. But what to do?
Read more...How Enforcement of the USMCA Will End a Corporate Race to the Bottom
USMCA, which promised to help American workers by improving labor bargaining rights, is being put to its first road test. Will it perform?
Read more...Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.
Read more...War as the Enemy of Reform: Biden’s Dilemma or His Excuse?
How much is keeping the US on a war footing really constraining Biden on the domestic front?
Read more...Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
Read more...Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization
Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...The Tattered Histories of Possible Future Ambassadors….Like Rahm Emanuel
A surprising number of ambassadors at prominent posts are patraonge picks. And who gets rewarded for what isn’t pretty.
Read more...‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver
Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?
Read more...Seychelles, World’s Most Vaccinated Country, Hit by Covid Surge….Including Among the Vaccinated
A big Covid surge in the Seychelles, a heavly vaccinated country, calls into question relying on vaccines as the route to normalcy.
Read more...Michel Barnier’s Brexit Diaries Published; Stinging Take of UK Strategic and Negotiating
Barnier’s Brexit diaries confirm the notion that the UK side was not up to the task and didn’t have the self-awareness to recognize that.
Read more...EU Proposes Opening to Fully Vaccinated Non-Essential Travelers; The Catch: Proving Vaccine Status
The fully-vaccinated may soon be able to visit the EU for non-essential travel. The catch: proving one’s vaccine status.
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