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Climate Change Transition in the Age of the Billionaire
Practically overnight, a dirty, inefficient, and unjust system that encompassed 11 time zones was to undergo an extreme makeover. Billions of dollars were available to speed the process. A new crew of transition experts came up with the bl…
The CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange in London is a Story that is Being Mistakenly Ignored
SILENCING FREE SPEECH - Three years ago, on 2 October 2018, a team of Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi cons…
What The Pandora Papers Teach Us About Protecting Wealth
THE ONE PERCENT - The Pandora Papers leak serves as another reminder of the old saying, “time and truth are on the same side.”
Pandora Papers: 'Biggest-Ever' Bombshell Leak Exposes Financial Secrets of the Super-Rich
FINANCIAL CORRUPTION - In what's being called the "biggest-ever leak of offshore data," a cache of nearly 12 million documents published Su…
Don't Abandon First-Class Postal Service
USPS POLITICS - Now more than ever the agency requires leaders who can adjust to new challenges in innovative ways while maintaining the ag…
Siberia’s Hot Streak
CLIMATE POLITICS-Global warming in Siberia is on a hot streak! It was +6°C last year. In like manner, if the entire planet hit +6°C above p…
How the United States Blocks Haitians Wherever They Go
BORDER WATCH-Five days after the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti, the United States sent a jumbo jet flying o…
Reflections on Political Violence and Terror
COUNTER PUNCH-Political physical violence and the threat and capacity to use such violence, enforce ruling class power and other and relate…
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical Records
DATA WATCH - Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affai…
Reconciling Profit and Morality
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY - Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the only pat…
Budget Reconciliation Could Provide Path to Citizenship for Millions of Immigrants
IMMIGRATION WATCH - Susie Lujano, 28, envisions herself living in Houston forever with her soon-to-be husband and the child they’re expecti…
Texas Abortion Law Architect Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Same-sex Marriage Ruling
SUPREMES & LGBTQ - Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, who played a key role in writing the new Texas ban on abortions af…
Delta variant forcing districts to find new ways to assess learning
COVID WATCH - At this point last year, we hoped we'd be on the other side of COVID-19.
Who’s Dying in California from COVID-19?
COVID WATCH - California’s COVID-19 deaths are skewing younger, with the average age dropping seven years in September.
Climate Change Is Triggering a New Refugee Crisis—Inside the US
CLIMATE WATCH - More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increa…
California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class
CA POLITICAL REVIEW - The working class have spoken, with their votes, that they support Governor Newsom’s bloated, sleepy, and sloppy bure…
Spreading Vaccine Misinformation is Dangerous and Wrong
COVID WATCH - In the late 19th century, people protested against mandatory smallpox vaccines. Despite them, today we live in a world withou…
Hello, China? This is the Pentagon Calling. . .
DATELINE BEJING - Chinese hardliners just had their stance justified by the erratic, verging on unhinged, behavior in the United States and…
The U.S. Military, Post-Afghanistan
TOM DISPATCH-Yoda, the Jedi Master in the Star Wars films, once pointed out that the future is all too difficult to see and it’s hard to de…
Abort the Illegitimate Court: End the Filibuster and Pack it
THe SUPREMES - Democrats cannot disgrace the Supreme Court by packing it (adding seats to it). It is already a disgrace.
