Archive | September, 2022

In just five minutes we’ll tell you what you need to know about the shadowy power of pharmacy benefit managers.

Russia-Gate and CIA ties to Ukrainian death squads, along with killer drone program and worldwide surveillance apparatus, necessitates new investigations of U.S. intelligence agencies modeled after the Church Committee hearings of 1975.

The Chilean people demonstrated at the ballot box against the proposal of the new Constitution of Chile, with an unappealable result, according to the final official bulletin of the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) with a 62% rejection of the constitutional project against a 38% of approval; the vote was mandatory, hence the participation has exceeded 13 million voters.

A country at risk: the underlying reasons for the assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchner.

In tragedy’s wake, a fiery movement for justice emerges in a South Texas town that’s known an uprising before.

After a fragile ceasefire lasting just five months, the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) have once again initiated violent conflict with federal forces in Northern Ethiopia.

In remembrance of Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022), we are reposting this article, which first appeared in WIN magazine on June 3, 1976, and then published in Monthly Review in 2005 (Volume 57, Issue 03).

Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle

Yves here. There have been a lot of suggestions about how to improve the Biden student debt forgiveness plan.

Jacques Baud (JB): The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction. I wrote it under the motto “from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.”

WHERE DO AMERICA’S MASS SHOOTERS COME FROM??–It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them.

Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.

ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.

Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”

Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) – Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies. 

Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?