Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...A fresh look, admittedly based on limited information, at how Israel’s economy is holding up in what is proving to be a protracted conflict
Read more...A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Read more...The FTC’s Lina Khan is loaded for bear and targeting potential (as in probable) tech-facilitated price collusion in health care.
Read more...Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.
Read more...The Freedom Flotialla is another example of how trying to save lives in Gaza is a high risk enterprise.
Read more...New anti-espionage laws in China could make an increasingly tenuous situation for Western drug buyers even worse.
Read more...Jill Stein explains why she is running for US president on an anti-war, pro-worker platform, challenging the Democrat/Republican duopoly.
Read more...Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...On how recent administrations enabled Boeing’s industry takeover and covered up safety deficiencies at Boeing and in the shipping industry.
Read more...More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...The US says Israel hit Iran…..and Iran says the strike was from drones fired within its borders which it shot down. Not at all a clear picture.
Read more...On different notions of citizenship and their implications.
Read more...The much predicted peak oil is running behind schedule, to the detriment of the planet.
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