5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It
A recent conference in Colombia assessed the extent of land grabs and how to organize against them.
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Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
Why Sotomayor should, erm, take one for the team!
Read more...Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Read more...Combating “Hate”: The Trojan Horse for Precrime
Canada pushes ahead with a pre-hate-crime bill as US states continue with programs to collect data on all types of hate “incidents.” Can “precrime” really prevent hate or are there ulterior motives at hand?
Read more...The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease – Are Non-Profits a Solution?
How to increase development of pharmaceuticals to treat tropical diseases, which afflict millions yet are neglected?
Read more...Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
Instead of closing schools, many communities are pushing their districts to think about schools differently.
Read more...Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
“Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure.”
Read more...“I Don’t Believe in Growth”
Why growth is no panacea.
Read more...Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics
A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
Michael Hudson in a bracing talk, including history of crises, the role of debt, and how ancient Greek and Roman law promoted inequality
Read more...The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to prosper—and avoid the biggest mistakes.
Read more...UN Human Rights Chief Decries ‘War Crime’ of Rapidly Expanding Israeli Settlements
A sadly necessary update on the state of Israel’s ethnic cleansing project in the West Bank.
Read more...Israel: Quietly Fraying?
Israel is being tested on many fronts and the fissures are showing.
Read more...Gendering the Predator State
Some new wrinkles on who wins and loses in James Galbraith’s Predator State.
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