Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security
UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy: Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
Why preserving (big) corporate profits will not bail out the economy.
Can the Intra-Party Rift Be Healed, At Least For Now? Or Must the Fight Be Fought in 2020?
Is the Democratic Party redeemable?
COVID-19 and Class in the United States
Globalization , globalizers, and COVID-19.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Coronavirus stats, no polls, Cuomo, Sanders, unemployment statstics, GDP, gold, influencers, Walmart, the Montreal Protocol, #COVID19 needs a Manhattan Project, #COVID19 and Canadian single payer, Thomas Piketty, corporate logos re-imagined with social distance
Announcing 2020 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!
2020 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler
Edible Forest Gardens: A Quick Review of a Very Beautiful and Useful Book
A permaculture gardening book for those isolated and seeking a project, or just a good read.
The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Letter to G20 Leaders (“The G20 must act now”)
Delaying emergency measures in emerging and developing economies will lead to unimaginable health and social impacts which will come back to haunt us for decades. The G20 must act now.
RJ Eskow: 7 Rules for the Boeing Bailout
As the world struggles with the pandemic, Boeing should be seen as the vector for a parallel epidemic. It’s Patient Zero in an epidemic of corporate failure. As we change the way we live our lives, corporations like Boeing should change the way they are run. Corporate mismanagement made this crisis worse and, if it doesn’t change, will make the recovery more difficult.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/25/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #COVID19 chart, new national polls, Biden, Cuomo, Sanders, Trump, tricking, retail, #COVID19 and employment, gardening, wildfires, the novel Coronoavirus itself, vitamin C, face masks, disinformation, Mesopotamian board games, Sara Nelson, knitting, hacking
Michael Hudson: A Brady Bond Solution for America’s Unpayable Corporate Debt
Another sign that America has gone banana republic: Brady Bonds, used in the Latin American debt crisis, would be suitable medicine for our corporate debt hangover.
Coronavirus Kayoes U.S. Recycling
Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..
