Making America Poisoned Again
The stated rationale for jettisoning environmental protections is that they are inefficient and have “suffocated” the economy. But economic benefits must be weighed against costs, including impacts on human health.
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Dead Empires: How China May Overtake the U.S.
By Polly Cleveland “The earth is the tomb of dead empires, no less than of dead men.” Thus wrote the
The Worst Place in the U.S. to Be Black Is...
... the home state of our new Speaker of the House. Now that our November/December issue, with its cover story
Tuesday Links; New Issue!
New Issue! We are just sending this to the printers; e-subscribers will get their full-color pdfs in the next few
Tuesday Links: TPP, Corbyn, Sanders, etc.
Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where
Corbyn Victory; Other election links
Scott Fullwiler, New Economic Perspectives, Corbynomics 101. A good piece responding to three critiques of Corbyn's idea of
Labor Day? Let’s Tell The Truth And Call It “Assets Day”
By Douglas K. Smith, author of On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me. Crossposted
On Its 80th Birthday, Securing Social Security
Today is the 80th anniversary of Social Security; here's our book reviewer Steve Pressman's review of
Links: SEC and CEOs, Greece, Mexico, Trump, Salaita
(1) Greece: In addition to the great video by Alicé Anil embedded above (well worth watching; includes clips with Krugman,
Links on Cops, Wage Stagnation, Phil Gramm, etc.
(1) Cops: I just posted Kristian Williams' article in our current issue, Poverty Crime, Privileged Crime: Policing and Economic
Report from Greece, plus more links on Greece
(1) When Greece Bailed Out Germany: Via Portside, the image above was the "poster of the week" recently
A Report from Iran
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain had a great piece in The Intercept, Iranians’ View of the Nuclear Deal: Optimistic, With
Latest Greece Links
Greek referendum 2015: demonstration for voting NO at Syntagma square, Athens Greece. Wikimedia Commons, author Ggia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike