The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization
Los Angeles ports have a huge queue of container ships that are waiting to dock and unload. The shortage of semiconductors is causing a backlog in worldwide orders for computers and other electronic devices. A huge container ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, clogging up merchant sea traffic. Rising energy costs due to delays […]
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Maine Voters and Foreign Companies Squared Off Over Energy Corridor. Voters Won.
Maine ballot referendum to halt the construction of a $1 billion cross-border corridor of high-impact electric transmission lines from Canada attracted more than $89 million in funds through ballot campaigns, more than any other referendum in Maine’s history, OpenSecrets’ analysis of campaign finance disclosures showed. Supporters of the corridor poured more than $63 million fighting […]
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Students Are Pushing US Colleges to Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex
The violence wreaked by U.S. wars since 9/11 has been immense — more than 929,000 total deaths, including an estimated 380,000 civilian deaths. Since 2001’s Afghanistan War, the U.S. has spent an astounding $14 trillion on Pentagon expenditures. up to one-half of whichThey were sent directly to defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, Northrop […]
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Schools That Ban Symbols of Antiracism From the Classroom Are Normalizing Racism
A few years back, I took my children on the train. Hemings Family Tour of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation. We learned about the people who were enslaved under our third president. The guide asked the group who was the most valuable slave on a plantation. Although I knew the answer instantly, I was part of […]
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US “Must Stop Enabling the Killing of Children” in Palestine
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the peace group CodePink were among those who condemned Friday’s killing by Israeli forces of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in the illegally occupied West Bank. Middle East Eye reportsMohammed Daadas, a Nablus refugee from Askar, was shot in the stomach in a post-prayer confrontation against Israeli forces in Deir al-Hatab. […]
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2021 Was Terrible for North American Glaciers. COP26 May Seal Their Fate.
It started out OK. A weak La Niña arrived in the fall of 2020 and continued through the winter. La Niñas tend to favour cool conditions and ample snowfall, so the winter of 2020-21 wasn’t bad for glaciers. But, what came next was. The so-called “End of June” was the time when the so-called heat […]
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Pelosi and Biden Acquiesce to Party’s Right Wing With Infrastructure Bill Vote
The U.S. House on Friday night passed a bipartisan physical infrastructure bill but didn’t bring the Build Back Better Act to the floor — sending just one half of President Joe Biden’s two-pronged economic agenda to the White House, with only a pledge that conservative House Democrats will vote for the party’s broader social infrastructure […]
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Democrats’ Flawed Drug Pricing Plan Has Limited But Real Benefits to Consumers
The Medicare prescription drug pricing proposal Democrats unveiled this week may not be as ambitious than many lawmakers hoped, but experts in drug policy and law say it opens up the possibility of reforms that could have huge effects. Consumers are being hounded by rising prices and the need to reduce drug expenses for a […]
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More Than 1 in 4 Members of the Senate Have Fossil Fuel Investments
This article was written by Sludge, an independent, ad free investigative news website that covers money in politics. Click here for support Sludge. At the COP26 climate conference, President Biden assured world leaders this week that the United States would fulfill its pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 compared to […]
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Alleging Civil Rights Violations, DOJ Sues Texas Over Restrictive Voting Law
The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Texas regarding recently-passed legislation that restricts voters from marginalized communities. Senate Bill (SB 1) 1, a Republican-authored law, was adopted. Late in the summer, the legislature passed.After Democrats failed to block it, they fled the state to prevent a majority of its voters from […]
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