The Status of Europe’s Autonomous Movements
The EU leads in managing autonomous and separatist movements in its states, but non-EU countries can be more vulnerable to outside interference.
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Washington Post Report on Russia-Ukraine Negotiation to End Energy System Attacks: An Admission of Russian Long-Term Weakness or More Complex Calcuation?
Trying to make sense of a Washington Post story depicting Russia as willing give up its best weapon, its electrical war, for very little.
Read more...In Praise of the Weird
The weird is that which introduces cracks into the edifice of the status quo, liberating possibilities for different futures.
Read more...Home Improvement
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana
Read more...Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
How disputed allegations against Planned Parenthood have given a big boost to the anti-reproductive-control juggernaut.
Read more...Benchmarking the Coming Democratic Convention Protests in Chicago
Democratic convention protests are coming! How do we judge whether they are a damp squib or moved the needle a smidge?
Read more...Americans Love Free Speech, Survey Finds − Until They Realize Everyone Else Has It, Too
A new American norm: “Free speech for me, but not for thee!”
Read more...US Defense Firms Reluctant to Cooperate with Ukraine Due to Safety, Corruption
Quelle surprise! The grand scheme to build a weapons industry in Ukraine appears to be going pear shaped.
Read more...Reflections on the War on Work as a War on Workers
Recalling what good union jobs once meant for workers and communities and describing some damage done by the war on labor
Read more...America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
On Intel’s storied history and self-destruction via greed, and now US stealthy financial support with no accountability.
Read more...Capitalism, Mass Anger, and 2024 Elections
More and more, officials are using anger as an excuse of censorship and arrests. Is capitalism the root? And is there actually “mass anger”?
Read more...Are We Headed for All-Out War in the Middle East?
Tensions are high and the US has made a move to increase its already substantial military forces in the Middle East
Read more...Lina Khan’s FTC Gears Up to Go After Algorithmic Black Boxes Governing Workers’ Lives, but It Might Be Running Out of Time
A closer look at “algorithmic wage discrimination” used at gig companies (and increasingly across all industries), one potential tool to stop it, and how the FTC is zeroing in on the practice.
Read more...Forty Percent of Biden IRA Manufacturing Projects Behind Schedule or Paused
A new study by the Financial Times on the early results from Biden Administration IRA spending raises as many questions as it answers.
Read more...Mask Bans Slowly Spread [cough, cough] in States and Localities
Mask bans passed in North Carolina and Nassau County, NY; mask bans considered in New York State, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA.
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