Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
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Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Read more...Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient
Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went. As the subhead notes: Summa Health’s experience highlights the challenges of AI adoption, especially at community health systems: Across emergency departments around Akron, Ohio, physicians were getting overwhelmed. In […]
Read more...Centuries-Long History of Russophobia Opens the Doors to Cold War 2.0
How Russophobia has been long in the making and continued to color international relations.
Read more...The Gates Foundation’s Global Reach Expands, to Mixed Reviews
The Gates Foundation steps into the void left by the U.S., and brings with it limited accountability, conflicts of interest, and a history of failure in its stated mission.
Read more...Trump’s Neo-Stalinist Pentagon Photo Purge
Controlling the future by controlling the past, here by censorship of narrative-busting photos.
Read more...Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani
A window into the thuggish efforts to sabotage Zohran Mamdani bid for New York City mayor, here by the Department of Homeland Security.
Read more...The Rule of Law Is Key to Capitalism − Eroding It Is Bad News for American Business
It is a sad sign of the extent of libertarian propaganda that an apple-pie-and-motherhood issue like the rule of law needs defending.
Read more...Trust in Science, Public Health, and Politics: Lessons from COVID-19
Shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a worldwide catastrophe, my much better half asked me how long I thought this would this last. Based on my then 45 years of biomedical research experience I replied, “Three years.” I was wrong. That was more than five years ago, when the refrigerated makeshift morgues were parked on […]
Read more...Reverse Lysistrata: More on Men Cooling on Dating, Sex and the Role of Societal Denigration
More on how young men are having a hard time finding dates and romantic partners, and why this matters.
Read more...Can Unions Really ‘Lead the Resistance to Authoritarianism?’
Probably not in their current form, but there’s a counterintuitive argument that we should be cheering for the Supreme Court to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board in order to revitalize labor.
Read more...Cow Most Sacred
Why military spending remains untouchable.
Read more...The Millionaire Exodus Myth
Millionaires are not fleeing countries to escape taxes.
Read more...US Shale Can’t Scale If No One’s Left to Work It
A form of class warfare hits shale players Too few young workers like the industry and its long-term career prospects.
Read more...The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist
A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.
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