From AIDS to Covid, the history of regulation shows that we need facts — but also direct action.
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“The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work." -- Lewis Hine, 1908
Iain Overton looks at the evidence that gun control measures lead to a decline in gun-related deaths
With inflation up, growth down, and 80% of Britons unsatisfied with the political system, Matthew Gwyther explores a catastrophic loss of faith in our economic system
Eugene Debs, the socialist who ran for President despite being a convict times two, is again in the spotlight.
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com The White House is preparing to take unprecedented action to limit US investments in China’s tech sector, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The action would come in the form of an executive order signed by President Biden that would require American companies to notify the government of new investments in Chinese tech. It […]
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Between the Indiana recycling plant fire and the Ohio toxic train derailment, experts say the president needs to disregard industry lobbying and address the dangers of plastics.
Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington, writes Joe Lauria.
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Why Depleted Uranium Should Have No Place There.
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By Conor Smyth / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) A ban on evictions. Required paid leave. Continuous Medicaid coverage. Free school meals. Emergency SNAP allotments. An extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits. Child tax credit expansion. Thousands in stimulus checks. These measures were part of a suite of policies the US government passed […]
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Leaked Pentagon documents revealed the US and other NATO members have US special operations forces inside Ukraine.
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Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain, and Vanessa Gezari analyze the leaked top-secret Pentagon documents and the Air National Guardsman alleged to have taken them.
The post The Discord Leaker: The Case of the Most Unorthodox National Security Leaks in History appeared first on The Intercept.
These billionaires seem to care more about their bottom lines than fan safety.
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- by Addy Dunkley-Smith
- by Psyche Film
People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.
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- by Jordan Fisher Smith
Why renewables are not a free lunch.
On the eve of Passover 1943 — the nineteenth of April — a group of several hundred poorly armed young Jews began the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the first insurrections against Nazism. For a small group of fighters, realising — in the lyrical words of one militant — that “dying with arms is more beautiful […]
Wilful blindness of UK politicians and media not mirrored internationally Al Jazeera’s ‘Labour Files’ documentary reveals the racism, sabotage and rigging committed by the Labour right during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn – and to complete the purge of the left after Keir Starmer conned party members into voting him in as leader. The documentary […]
The unsellability of DSGE models — private-sector firms do not pay lots of money to use DSGE models — is one strong argument against DSGE. But it is not the most damning critique of it. The most damning critiques that can be levelled against DSGE models are the following two: (1) DSGE models are unable to […]
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. As you’ve probably noticed, there’s some work being done on the site, to make everything ready, hopefully, for the launch of Witches of World War 2 next week! Something in the Water Returns to Radio 4 Extra! My horror radio play Something in the Water, directed by Nadia Molinari and […]
The unimaginable lives of earlier generations (of white people).