UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?
Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth
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FTC, Where Art Thou?: Appliance Manufacturers Routinely Invalidate Warranties if Customers Use Third-Party Repair Services
Appliance manufacturers say their waranties are voided if consumers use third-party repair servces, despite contrary FTC guidelines.
Read more...Why Does the United States Ignore the Possibility of Using Sniffer Dogs to Detect Covid in Mass Settings?
Sniffer dogs detect Covid quickly, cheaply, and accurately. Why aren’t we hearing about them?
Read more...Despite Federal Moratorium, Increasing Number of Texas Renters Face Eviction as State Protection Expires
A Texas program meant to financially help renters who have fallen behind has barely taken root.
Read more...IMF, World Bank Must Support Developing Countries’ Recovery
COVID-19 continues to take an unprecedented human and economic toll; international institutions must support developing countries’ recovery.
Read more...New COVID Variants Have Changed the Game, and Vaccines Will Not Be Enough. We Need Global ‘Maximum Suppression
Vaccines alone won’t stem the COVID-19 pandemic: the case for why much mre still must be done, on a blocal basis.
Read more...What Covid Means for the Athlete’s Heart
Preliminary data suggests up to 1 in 5 people with Covid-19 wind up with heart inflammation. Athletes should fare better but are at risk too.
Read more...Why India is Banking on Health Diplomacy to Grow African Footprint
India has stepped up its foreign policy re-engagement with African countries and has focused on health diplomacy.
Read more...Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...Martin Luther King’s America Redux: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Liz Theoharis commemorates the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.
Read more...Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
Read more...The ‘Roaring Twenties’ and Covid Recovery: Revisiting the Evidence for Europe
Are the Roaring Twenties an analogue for what a post Covid economy would look like?
Read more...Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Read more...A Covid Tragedy: “Wholesale Discrediting of Our Health Science Institutions”
How science, or perhaps more accurately, “Trust the science,” is dangerously being treated as just another political chip.
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