Could California End Up With a Trump-Like Governor?
How much should Californians worry that Larry Elder, a politically inexperienced, hard core right winger, might become governor?
Read more...How much should Californians worry that Larry Elder, a politically inexperienced, hard core right winger, might become governor?
Read more...The latest IPCC report shows we are climate-cooking our goose more quickly than even most pessimists had thought.
Read more...CalPERS’ secret rmeeting after CIO Meng left in a huff shows how staff controls the board, here by falsely claiming internal sabotage.
Read more...Yves here. This is the second section of the GPENewdoc historical series on imperialism and capitalism. You can find Part 1 here. By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPENewsdocs Prabhat Patnaik explains how the colonial system led to depression. Then, in advanced countries governments stepped in to increase demand and productivity, but how unless the […]
Read more...Oops! CalPERS released nearly all of a transcript of a board meeting after Ben Meng’s resignation that it was fighting to keep secret.
Read more...Prabhat Patnaik on imperialism and capitalism: to accumulate wealth, somewhere demand must be suppressed to provide cheap inputs.
Read more...On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...Cleaning up some misperceptions about the US operation in Afghanistan, including the idea that it was a country.
Read more...UK enacts right to repair rules, which should make spare parts for some electrical devices and large household appliances more widely available.
Read more...Even commentary meant to be hard on CalPERS manages to understate how bad things are.
Read more...Commemorating a desructive anniversary, that of the Powell memo that set forth how big business would wage war against ordinary citizens.
Read more...Unless drastic changes are made to halt deforestation and encourage forests to regrow, the Amazon cannot fulfil its potential to mitigate climate change.
Read more...Florida state officials seek to punish school administrators who impose mask mandates; meanwhile, lack of oxygen threatens Orlando’s supply of potable water.
Read more...A discussion of parents worried about sending their kids back to school curiously contains only red state/nonurban examples.
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