Futuristic Nostalgia: Maine’s Two-Footer Railroads
The Maine two-footers were great. Why not revive them?
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Revisiting Privatization’s Claims
Advocates exaggerate claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive, and competitive economies by promoting private entrepreneurship, innovation, and investments.
Read more...Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths
Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...Court Rules that Portland Oil Terminal Ban Does Not Violate the Commerce Clause
The court ruled that the city’s ban on new fossil fuel terminals within its borders did not violate the Commerce Clause, which is the main argument the oil industry has used against bans like the ones in Portland, Oregon and other cities.
Read more...What’s with the New York City Subway System?
Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...Why I Hate Google, Twitter, and Facebook
Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...The Jobs Guarantee, “Make-Work,” and FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
Read more...China’s Strategic Investments in Europe: The Case of Maritime Ports
The EU is rethinking its policies on foreign direct investment. Recent Chinese investment into ports may impact the final rules.
Read more...Mexican Business Elite, US Government, Brace for Likely Win by Leftist Obrador as Mexico’s President
What might a win in the July 1 presidential election by the charismatic, anti-neoliberal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado mean for Mexico and the US?
Read more...How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided
Why the death toll in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria was so disgracefully high.
Read more...What India Can Teach the US About a Federal Job Guarantee
As Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a federal job guarantee attracts criticism, it is worth mulling India’s successful rural job guarantee program, enacted in 2005.
Read more...China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
Michael Hudson discusses monopoly capitalism on the Laura Flanders show.
Read more...Tesla Encounters the Material World
The likely failure of Tesla’s hyper-automated manufacturing process, and the externalities of battery fires in electric vehicles.
Read more...Aliso Canyon Disaster Highlights Risks, Inadequate Safety Rules Governing Natural Gas Storage
Report documents how the self-regulation fairy proved itself as inept in protecting the public from dysfunctional management decisions that compromised safety and led to the Alito Canyon natural gas disaster.
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