Biden’s Plan to Save the IRS Is Good for Everyone but
Wealthy Tax Cheats: Biden’s bill will revive a moribund and underfunded agency,
cut down on corruption, and bring in a ton of revenue.
The Gender Pay Gap Starts at Home: How the division of
labor within couples is stopping women getting equal pay at work
Here’s How Democrats Need to Talk About Education:
Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin connected with parents, and Terry
McAuliffe did not. This, not critical race theory, is what Democrats need to
reflect on.
Economic Update: China & Inflation: Real Analyses,
Not BS - 11/01/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYElgSiuhzE
Today's Bizarre Cold War Rhetoric: China's Socialism in
U.S. Media - Economic Update – 11/02/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g03zj_Ofcw
Big Business Is the Cause of Every Inflation - Richard
Wolff – 11/02/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH1tT4NW8NI
Ask Prof Wolff: Pandemic Economics = Capitalism's
Failures – 11/03/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6rEglDvwvI
Ask Prof Wolff: Transitions between Capitalism &
Feudalism – 11/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqMtFIyOsM
Imperial Abyss (with Yanis Varoufakis and Richard Wolff)
| The Internationalist – 11/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN6ac59G6Bo
Wolff Responds: Elon Musk's Billionaire BS – 11/06/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMA8Q20JSE
Economic Update: A Story of War – 11/08/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVoT5itwq1U
Fed Economist & Striking Workers Agree: System Change
is On the Agenda - Richard Wolff - Nov 9, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQ0W6tDBR8
Richard Wolff On COP26: Corporate Megalomaniacs Distract
From What Capitalism Has Wrought - Nov 9, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvEti4phheo
Wolff Responds: Mandate Madness - Nov 13, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JidEZAt-7zY
Economic Update: Germany Shifts Left - Nov 15, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur80hhpEC8
German Conservatives Are To the Left of U.S. Bernie
Democrats - Richard Wolff - Nov 16, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dqeTEAdwHU
Wolff Responds: Capitalism's False Defenses - Nov 16,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjHch15JHVg
Prof Wolff Clears Up the Capitalist Story on Shortages -
Nov 16, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB4R4qGkWUA
Why Financialization Damages America (w/ Prof. Richard
Wolff) - Nov 17, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY1uSudBXAw
Ten Years Ago: Corporate & Household Debt [10th
Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff] – Nov 19, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xf0J7X2gI
Prof. Richard Wolff: The Truth About Inflation - Nov 19,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0XvKrrQsu0
Wolff Responds: Price vs. Wage Inflation – Nov 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Y3tR2IN_M
Ask Prof Wolff: The Municipal Bond Racket - Nov 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcSp5ByPiA
The Problems with China's Economy - Global Capitalism -
Nov 21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5gtQbNheM
Economic Update: Chris Hedges & US Prisons - Nov 22,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kwl3r2BbE
South Dakota Secures the Secret Wealth of Billionaires -
Economic Update – Nov 23, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCe0PpYWBy0
If Interest Rates Go Up - Will the World Economy Be
Destroyed? (w/ Richard Wolff) - Nov 24, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys6w97r_ZW4
Ask Prof Wolff: Economic Analysis - Real and Fake – Nov
26, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIkMgscg4c
Lenin's Question for China: State Capitalism or
Socialism? – Nov 28, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picggkt4BGM
Economic Update: Imagining a Different Economy - Nov 29,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_P8e72LyM
Ask Prof Wolff: Capitalism Depends on Empire – Dec 1,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyf4j3T6fxs
Blaming the Supply Chain To Cover The Crumbling Of
Capitalism. With Prof Richard Wolff - Dec 1, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyC0E0ym2Ro
Ask Prof Wolff: High Costs of Restaurant Dinners - Dec 3,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBTy7mBwyIE
The Competition Between China and the U.S. - Global
Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Dec 5, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEYv__qq0A
Economic Update : Class Struggles in the US Today - Dec
6, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=788tDA5Y32Y
Money Supply Doesn't Cause Inflation. The Profit System
Does - Economic Update - Dec 7, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z6IWcM0Sqo
Prof Wolff's Critique of Obscene Wealth - Economic Update
- Dec 7, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIABdskDXrs
Will the Feds Trigger A Full-Blown Recession (w/ Prof.
Richard Wolff) - Dec 8, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdf66mMEwo
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Workplaces Get Toxic - Dec 9, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jVt57Hang
Wolff Responds: The Real Drivers of Inflation - Dec 10,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1MXJZ6yOY
Real Estate Crisis, Jobs/China Crisis, Hope for Gen
Z/Millennials Professor Richard Wolff Part 2 - Dec 10, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kcQ8pKiXU
Ask Prof Wolff: Credit Cards as Refunds - Another Profit
Hustle - Dec 11, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmR_YIicOyI
Interdependence of China and the United States - Global
Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Dec 12, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-i03NAeruU
Economic Update: Ecology Co-Ops & Profit - Dec 13,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTGwhTP61XQ
Fossil Fuel Companies Lied for 50 Years, for Profit -
Economic Update - Dec 14, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-U97mDLYk
Ask Prof Wolff: Affordable Housing and Homelessness - Dec
15, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicH1WoPE48
Ten Years Ago: Homelessness [10th Anniversary of Economic
Update with Richard Wolff] - Dec 17, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ifkXlDgsw
Ask Prof Wolff: Hostage to Profit - Dec 17, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH3Nr6aZkCc
Wolff Responds: World Inequality Report 2022 - Dec 18,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVi0UMEvpHk
Labor’s Latest Win: Debt Relief for New York City Taxi
Drivers: Taxi drivers were targeted by predatory lending practices, leaving
them owing $550,000 on average.
More Than 30,000 Health Care Workers Are on the Verge of
Striking: Kaiser Permanente’s proposal to cut wages for existing employees and
pay new staff less has baffled union members, who only see the health system
growing.
Homeless at the Gates of Disney World: Orlando, Florida,
has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis
Anti-Union Consultants Are Baffled by Labor’s Comeback:
From Microsoft to McKinsey, a brief tour of consulting firms attempting to
understand the wave of workers’ strikes.
No, Senator Manchin, Build Back Better Won’t Create
Runaway Inflation: Covid created this inflation spike. Ending Covid will curb
it.
Why Are Democrats So Afraid to Brag About the Economy?
Even with very real concerns about inflation and the global supply chain, the
economy is in good shape. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say so.
Have the Founders of the University of Austin Been in a
Classroom Lately? Niall Ferguson, Bari
Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus
illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Richard Rusczyk’s Worldwide Math Camp: Online, a math
Olympian has found a way to nurture prodigies from around the world.
Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/09/21/work-sweat-die-the-price-of-really-hot-jobs
We should look back for our future | Jim Hightower
The Old Economics of New Agriculture: Drive or Be Driven
https://www.farmandfoodfile.com/2021/10/11/the-old-economics-of-new-agriculture-drive-or-be-driven/
Course Correction
https://m.usw.org/blog/2021/course-correction
Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy,
Autocracy, and Capitalism
Cost Disease Socialism: The Niskanen Center’s Unnecessary
Fight
https://cepr.net/cost-disease-socialism-the-niskanen-centers-unnecessary-fight/
Unemployment Insurance Isn’t Holding Back the Economy.
Inequality Is. Ending enhanced
unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work. It just made them poorer.
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Entralgo.html
George Carlin: The Owners Of This Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT03vCaL-F0
‘Inequality Virus’ Strikes Asian Poor
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Gunasekaran.html
Can You Count on Your Digits in a Cashless Society?
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Anderson.html
Protecting Workers and Communities
http://www.populist.com/27.18.Sandronsky.html
Breastfeeding Moms Need Support to Succeed
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/bonniejeanfeldkamp/s-2571849
More than 150,000 people with cancer come to a Mayo
Clinic site annually. Patients benefit from the knowledge and extensive
experience of Mayo Clinic specialists and integrated approach to treating each
individual.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/cancer-education-center/
Modernizing Diabetes Care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ZykNF8b1s
Recent White House Study on Taxes Shows the Wealthy Pay a
Lower Rate Than Everybody Else: When ProPublica compared the richest Americans’
wealth gains to the taxes they paid, we found a system that benefits
billionaires. White House economists recently used a similar method to
calculate tax rates, revealing stark inequality.
Hard to Find Good Help for Cheap
http://www.populist.com/27.19.McMillen.html
Build Back What? Sounds Pretty Expensive.
http://www.populist.com/27.19.ArtCullen.html
Hey, Genius, Mind Your Own Business
https://www.farmandfoodfile.com/2021/10/29/hey-genius-mind-your-own-business/
10 Ways AI Has The Potential To Improve Agriculture In
2021
Big Money’s War on the Build Back Better Plan: The
administration’s jobs and infrastructure package is very popular, but corporate
lobbyists are fighting it tooth and nail.
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Youdelman.html
To Save Jobs and Fund Infrastructure, Close This
Loophole: Greedy private equity executives often pay lower tax rates than the
employees they put out of work. Here’s how to fix it.
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Wakamo.html
Private Equity Destroyed My Job: It took greedy investors
just three years to strip my employer for parts. Here’s how to stop them from
coming for yours.
https://inequality.org/research/private-equity-destroyed-my-job/
Shakiness, Inc.: Tech and Temp Workers
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Sandronsky.html
A Common-Sense Policy
https://www.usw.org/blog/2021/a-common-sense-policy#skip_intro
Was the G.I. Bill of Rights a Safety Net Bill? Talking About
the Democrats’ Big Bill
https://cepr.net/was-the-gi-bill-of-rights-a-safety-net-bill-talking-about-the-democrats-big-bill/
The Ugly Face(book) of Corporate Capitalism
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Kalet.html
When Will US Break Free from Grifters?
https://www.laprogressive.com/break-free-from-grifters/
The Child Tax Credit Is a Proven Boost to American
Families, So Why Are Conservative Democrats Trying to Stop It?
Twenty Years of Republican Obstruction on Climate Change
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Uretsky.html
With Health Care At Stake, Our Voices Should Count: I
know what going without care is like. With hospitals closing and insurance
still hard to get, we need to organize for something better.
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Rojas.html
Bread Is Not Enough
http://www.populist.com/27.19.Seggel.html
There Are No Borders for the Rich: For the ruling class,
the nation-state is an indispensable fiction.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/pandora-papers-nationalism/
Championing Mental Health Is the Latest Celebrity Grift:
The Sussexes are cashing in on the wellness explosion, and it couldn’t be more
craven.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/meghan-markle-mental-health/
Poverty Can Happen to Anyone: Our new podcast, Going for
Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/podcast-going-for-broke/
Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is
Possible. Critics of the American Rescue
Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-jobs-recovery/
How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the
Least Powerful: A conversation with author Eyal Press about the men and women
who do this country’s most maligned jobs and the psychic toll it takes on them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/dirty-work-press/
Land of Capital: The history of the United States as the
history of capitalism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jonathan-levy-ages-of-capitalism/
Jim Hightower: Pantry Power
Why would we let Wall Street
'care for' our pets? | Jim Hightower
https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/columnists/2021/10/21/why-would-we-let-wall-street-care-for-our-pets-jim-hightower/6120881001/
Froma Harrop: Yes, our economic problems are 'high class'
Death Taxes: Only for the One Percenters
https://farmandfoodfile.com/2021/10/11/death-taxes-only-for-the-one-percenters/
When Wall Street Came to My Mobile Home Park: Mobile
homes provide affordable housing for millions. But for private equity firms,
they’re just another asset to squeeze for profit.
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Townsend.html
The Supply Chain Story Everyone Is Missing: The deeper
cause is too much offshoring and too little domestic production.
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Kuttner.html
The US Has Become a Tax Haven for the Vile and the
Vicious: The US contribution to the global concentration of wealth, the Pandora
Papers help us understand, has become frighteningly enormous.
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Pizzigati.html
Health Care At Risk of Collapse
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Conway.html
The Hypocrisy of the Federal Spending Debate: Why is it
controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize
the poor but not the rich?
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Donahue.html
Don’t Cut Care: Aging and disabled Americans — and the
workers who care for them — have a huge stake in federal budget negotiations.
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Entralgo.html
Sanchez: The US needs better immigration policy to
address labor issues
If This is a Wage-Price Spiral, Why Are Profits Soaring?
https://cepr.net/if-this-is-a-wage-price-spiral-why-are-profits-soaring/
View from the Barricades: The Labor Market
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Burnett.html
There’s Nothing “Normal” About Having a Middle Class: It
has to be Chosen: If we want to stop the destruction of the remnants of the
last generation's middle class, it all starts with taxing the rich: The time is
long past due for us to roll back the Reagan tax cuts
https://hartmannreport.com/p/theres-nothing-normal-about-having
Opinion: Manchin’s shameful child-care stance isn’t just
bad politics. It’s self-defeating policy.
Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/10/why-record-numbers-of-workers-are-quitting-and-striking/
The Annals of Greed
http://www.populist.com/27.20.Retsinas.html
Corporate America Builds Back Worse
http://www.populist.com/27.20.OLeary.html
How Sen. Manchin just Positioned Chinese Firms to dominate
the Green Energy Markets of the 21st Century, Leaving the US in the Dust
https://www.juancole.com/2021/10/manchin-positioned-dominate.html
How a Competitive Economy Coerces Us - Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA09pvlyjD8
Capitalism Hits Home: Striketober - American Labor Begins
to Awaken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEWNzQktcLU
Why Capitalism Needs Imperialism To Drain Wealth From the
Global South, w/ Economist Utsa Patnaik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF5vx1W_kk
GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY: Concepts | Thinkers | Topics -
PATNAIK, Utsa
https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/patnaik-utsa/
Pinochet’s Ghost: Surging Far Right vs Rising Left, as
Chile’s Elections Loom
https://raniakhalek.com/pinochets-ghost-surging-far-right-vs-rising-left-as-chiles-elections-loom/
Fix the Olympics—or Burn Them to the Ground:
International sports’ most heralded competition is stuck on a trajectory that
will force the games into the arms of corrupt nations.
Covid Antiviral Pills Could Be a “Game Changer”—if Only Our
Health Care System Actually Worked: New medicines are on the way in the fight
against the pandemic, but these life-saving drugs might get trapped in a maze of bad policy.
The Real Inflation Problem Is Corporate Profiteering:
Don’t be hoodwinked. It isn’t Joe Biden who’s making record profits and gouging
U.S. consumers. That would be corporate America.
The End of Supply Chain Issues Is Coming, Just Not in
Time for the Holidays
American Workers Get Less Social Security and Less Paid
Time Off Than Workers in Other Countries
Mercenary Capitalism and
Radical Love in Prisons- Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EWV-7yEDo
Give People Safe Drugs: Over
100,000 overdose deaths happened last year, driven by volatile and lethal
fentanyl. The safe supply movement may have an answer for the crisis.
U.S. jobless claims plunge to 199,000, lowest in 52 years: The
number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to
the lowest level in more than half a century, another sign that the U.S. job
market is rebounding rapidly from last year’s coronavirus recession.
Substandard Housing: Suffering
in the Abstract
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Rollins.html
Time for Detox
http://www.populist.com/27.21.McMillen.html
Black Friday’s Supply Chain Problems Are Really Labor Problems:
This holiday shopping season, Covid-induced shortages meet the long-term
project to squeeze retail and transport workers.
Food, Interrupted: Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots
of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.
Cresting the wave, looking into next year's trough
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Guebert.html
Third Quarter GDP: More Good than
Bad
https://cepr.net/third-quarter-gdp-more-good-than-bad/
Behold and Beware! The Age of
Trillionaires Is Coming: Have we just about decided that the further
accumulation of billionaire fortunes makes for good public policy?
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Lord.html
Why the troubled US empire could
quickly fall apart: For the first time in more than a century, the United
States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor
https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/why-the-troubled-us-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart/
The Empty Ethics of “Shop
Small”: As economies crater in the pandemic recession, the call to buy
“handmade” local goods has gained new force. It’s not that simple.
Public Transit, Built Back Better
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/leeann-hall/98849/public-transit-built-back-better
Curb Cuts for All
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Retsinas.html
Rebuilding the Middle Class: Why American workers want
Congress to deliver an infrastructure bill
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Conway.html
What’s Causing the Weird Inflation? And is there anything Biden can do to make it
subside before it adds to the Democrats’ woes in 2022?
https://prospect.org/economy/whats-causing-the-weird-inflation/
Capitalism Makes for Weaker Links
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Buell.html
Graying, Gen X and Generational Leapfrog
https://rall.com/2021/10/26/graying-gen-x-and-generational-leapfrog
Solve Debt Crises by Replacing Federal Reserve
http://www.populist.com/27.21.Anderson.html
Retail won't tackle the labor shortage until it reverses
decades of worker neglect and becomes a viable, long-term career again
Black Friday Shopping Is Back, but the Doorbusters
Aren’t: Consumers hit malls again even as they do more holiday shopping online
Stocks and oil plunge as new Covid variant fears slam
global markets
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/investing/global-markets-oil-covid-variant-intl-hnk/index.html
Russia names 51 people presumed dead in coal mine
accident
https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-explosions-russia-fires-3bbb8ef83242935c57c0a561f0ea32be
Russia names 51 people presumed dead in coal mine
accident. 'We got justice': Ahmaud Arbery's mother delivered a special message
on Thanksgiving Day
Why Doesn’t the Government Stockpile Other Essentials
Like It Does Oil? The country's system
of national reserves makes zero sense
CDC warns of rising flu infection rates among young
people
Billionaires hurt economic growth and should be taxed out
of existence, says bestselling French economist
Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote,
Vowing "We're Gonna Fight": With little national attention, a
Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage
industry.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/dollar-general-workers-store-connecticut-union-campaign
When Scabs Are a Danger to Public Health: United Metro
Energy is risking an environmental catastrophe in Brooklyn as billionaire CEO
John Catsimatidis stalls union negotiations.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/united-metro-energy-labor-politics-unions
The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More
New Union Organizing: If you want more strikes, make more union members.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/strike-wave-john-deere-workers-iatse-hollywood-nurses-miners
Fifteen Minute Cities Could Be the Future of Urban
Planning: This solution could be a blueprint not just for greater convenience,
but for equity and sustainability.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/urban-planning-city-local-essential-services-drive-15-minute-cities
Can Biden Coop Up the Monopolies? The administration and a bipartisan Congress
want to bring relief to livestock farmers. Big Ag lobbyists want to stop them.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/can-biden-coop-up-the-monopolies/
Why Are We Letting Monopolists Corner Space? Fleets of low Earth orbit satellites are
creating a new global communications infrastructure full of promise and peril.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos should not control it.
Amtrak Joe vs. the Modern Robber Barons: Biden’s big bet
on rail infrastructure will be wasted unless he takes on the financiers who
control the industry.
The Doctor Will Not See You Now: Primary care is a
disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/the-doctor-will-not-see-you-now/
Biden’s Next Agenda: Anti-monopoly. How enhancing America’s antitrust regime is a
winning issue for the administration—and the country.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/bidens-next-agenda-anti-monopoly/
Is It Unwise to Privatize? Short answer: It all depends.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2021/is-it-unwise-to-privatize/
Biden Is Worried About Gas Prices? He Should Bust
OPEC. It’s always been an illegal
international cartel under U.S. law. Now would be a pretty good time to break
it up.
A tale of two thefts
Inside the fast-food workers' rebellion at a McDonald's
in Bradford, Pa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/rebellion-mcdonalds-bradford-pa
Opinion: The assertion of
‘parental choice’ in schools is headed in disturbing directions
The Changing Face of Social
Breakdown: Pathologies of unruliness are being displaced by pathologies of
passivity.
https://thedispatch.com/p/the-changing-face-of-social-breakdown
Drug overdose deaths hit record high: More than 100,000
Americans died from drug overdoses between May 2020 and April 2021—the most
ever recorded in a single year—according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/drug-overdose-deaths-hit-record-high/
More American Adults Say They Don’t Expect to Have a
Child: Poll
https://time.com/6122212/no-children-adults/
Workers Deserved Bernie’s Build Back Better, But They’ll
Likely Get Manchin’s
SANDY MUNRO sells all his Tesla shares! – Interview
explaining it 🚀 - Aug 1, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__rMm18rXI
Your Move OEMs...Who Will Survive? - Nov 24, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63SJwFdGTQ
105 Organizations Urge Biden to Cancel Student Debt;
Would Advance Economic and Racial Justice
Companies backed by private-equity firms got $5 billion
out of $2 trillion in federal Covid relief
Some $1.2 billion of PPP and other relief money targeted
at small businesses went to companies backed by large and well-funded
private-equity firms.
Pfizer bullies governments worldwide in COVID-19 vaccine
contracts: report
http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/18/c_1310318481.htm
Outrage of the Month: Prescription-Drug Price Gouging in
U.S. Fuels Big Pharma’s Revenues
FDA Sued Over Inaction on Dangerous Hair Loss Medication
Propecia: Drug Has Been Linked to Suicide, Depression, Long-Term Erectile
Dysfunction
https://www.citizen.org/news/fda-sued-over-inaction-on-dangerous-hair-loss-medication-propecia/
Letter: FDA Panel for Hearing to Evaluate Makena Removal
Must Be Fairly Balanced To Ensure Independent Judgment
Apple and Google Want U.S. Trade Officials to Attack
Anti-Monopoly Law
CVS Drops Effort to Roll Back Disability Rights in
Supreme Court
https://www.citizen.org/news/cvs-drops-effort-to-roll-back-disability-rights-in-supreme-court/
The simple explanation for rising US gas prices
https://qz.com/2092389/the-simple-explanation-for-rising-us-gas-prices/
First big tranche of infrastructure dollars heading to
states for water, lead pipes: EPA Administrator Michael Regan said it was the
“single largest investment in water infrastructure” in the history of the
federal government.
Senate cuts deal to clear government funding bill
Unvaccinated hospital patients in Illinois should pay for
their covid-19 care, Democrat proposes
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Know How Hertz Went From
Bankruptcy to Buybacks in Six Months
Good question. The answer is that corporate success these
days looks an awful lot like failure.
Warren Slams Hertz for Raising Prices 147 Percent While
Pursuing $2B in Buybacks
Millions of Kids Could Sink Back Into Poverty if the
Child Tax Credit Expires: The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year
extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.
Elon Musk — The World’s Richest Man — Rips Biden Program
Helping the Poor and People are Disgusted
Capitalism Hits Home: What Can Americans Do To Be
Happier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoWiG01QmSc
India’s farmers’ protests: the British left must show
solidarity
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2020/12/30/indias-farmers-protests-the-british-left-must-show-solidarity/
India: mass movement of farmers fights corporate
power-grab
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2021/02/01/india-mass-movement-of-farmers-fights-corporate-power-grab/
Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much: If history is a
guide, President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion investment may not fund nearly as
much transportation as it would in much of the rest of the world.
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us and Shaping Humanity's Destiny
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56898242-move
Pain Machine: Why our health care system is broken.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jonathan-cohn-ten-year-war/
U.S. Producer Prices Climbed Sharply in November: Prices
that suppliers charge businesses and other customers jumped 9.6% last month
from a year ago, the most on record
U.S. House passes measure clamping down on products from
China's Xinjiang
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-house-vote-compromise-version-uyghur-bill-2021-12-14/
Stocks fall slightly as investors await Fed decision
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/stock-futures-are-flat-ahead-of-key-fed-decision-.html
Congress Averts the Latest Debt Ceiling Crisis | The New
Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/164738/debt-ceiling-default-crisis-averted
Psst: You want to know the truth about inflation? (It's
not what the Fed thinks it is.)
Prices are rising because corporations have the power to
raise them. They're using "inflation" as an excuse. The Fed is about
to apply the wrong medicine.
4 Things Social Security Disability Recipients Should Not
Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gj3RVImQd0
Social Security benefits increasing in 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMYYW52dubo
Joe Biden has a student loan debt relief problem on his
hands: Student loan repayments restart in February with no relief plan from
Democrats.
The Debt Ceiling is Congress’s Dumbest and Most Dangerous
Game
There’s a Revolution Happening in Harm Reduction for Drug
Users
Where Did The Syphilis Pandemic Start? | The Syphilis
Enigma | Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bWNF_eNwvI
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: How Do We Break from Neo-Liberalism?
- Dec 16, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-CRMfZ3Y50
While District Pushes Standardized Tests—Teachers Say
Students Are Stressed
What Should the Democrats Do About Rising Inflation? Doug Henwood argues that without raising
taxes, many leftist policies will come with risks, while Lauren Melodia writes
that the GOP is exaggerating inflation concerns.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inflation-democrats-debate/
How the Taxi Workers Won: The 45 days of fierce protest,
shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that
had engulfed the taxi industry.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/taxi-driver-strike/
The Growing Revolution: What will it take for an emerging
patchwork of co-ops, food hubs, and farming collectives to challenge Big Ag?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/collective-farming-agriculture/
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