Israel is in the midst of a land grab in Syria. Ex Ansar Allah, the disapproving world majority merely finger-wags.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
CDC’s Research Program on Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) Minimizes Airborne Transmission
In CDC’s approach to Hospital Acquired Infections, strategies to prevent the spread of pathogens through the air are ignored or downplayed.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump to pull out of WHO; Covid and the brain; Boeing 737 crashes not due to MCAS?!; Quantum consciousness ~
Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious − That Could Already Be Hurting Animals That Are Grazers
More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.
Holiday Schedule and Moderation Holiday
We’ve kicking back a bit over the holiday season, but not to worry. We’ll have new fare and updates every day. Best wishes for 2025!
The US Embrace of Incarceration for the Homeless Is a Win-Win for the Plutocrats
Ignoring the true causes of the homeless crisis while expanding the carceral state helps discipline labor.
Anora: A Refreshingly Radical Depiction of Sex Work on Film
The film’s representation of sex workers as deserving of respect is a quiet, radical act.
The Demand and Supply of Hate
A new study looks at amplification of hateful content on social media platforms and points to remedies. But is BlueSky really any better?
Michael Hudson: Foreward on Schurtz’s Origins of Money
Michael Hudson explains how Heinrich Schurtz’s 1897 Origins of Money debunked neoclassical fables about how money started and developed.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid data, with wastewater increase; Mangione hit with Federal charges, death penalty possible; Biden wasn’t been governing the country, an extra-constitutional entity was; DOGE is another extra-constitutional entity ~
Post Cold War Geopolitics Worse for Global South
How the US mismanaged its unipolar moment to the detriment of the Global South.
