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Joe Biden could have gone a lot further on student loans
Yves here. There have been a lot of suggestions about how to improve the Biden student debt forgiveness plan.
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At least 36% of mass shooters have been trained by the U.S. Military
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.
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Puerto Ricans demand cancellation of contract with LUMA Energy
Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.
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Controlling inflation at the expense of working class
ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.
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What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise
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.”
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‘Dangerous heat waves’ to be more frequent and more sustained in near future
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.
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Capitalism created the climate catastrophe; Socialism can avert disaster: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
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.
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Gorbachev and his legacy must be viewed in context
When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.
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How France underdevelops Africa
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.
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Supporters of Palestinian rights should praise NDP’s dramatic policy shift
Has a leading Canadian politician ever shifted so dramatically on a major policy issue?
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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The Political Theory of Capital: Fetishism of Commodities
Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism.
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Myrotvorets should not exist, and its owners are not held accountable for their actions
Journalist Daria Dugina was killed in Russia on Saturday night.
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Biden to name Ukraine war general
President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.
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The military-student-debt complex
GOP war hawks slam Biden initiative for “undermining” Pentagon efforts to prey on desperate young people.
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Biden’s studen loan scam
The Biden administration announcement of so-called student loan debt relief does little to alleviate the problem it claims to solve.
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Factchecking the factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and media access
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S.-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective.
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3.8 million tenants in the U.S. could be evicted in the next two months
Only 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the entire year of 2018. The looming eviction crisis reflects the catastrophic failure of the U.S. government.
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Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list
“Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”
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FBI behind seizure of Venezuelan plane in Argentina
The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.