Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Oliver de Leth reports on the fossil fuel barons using their wealth and influence to trash the EU's human rights and environmental…
climate change
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- David Suzuki writes about the desperate need to loosen the grip a few megalomaniacal billionaires have over political and economic decision-making. And Matt McManus'…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich talks about the glaring gap between the wealthy elite who are being catered to by the U.S.' economy and the many…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Bruce Campbell discusses how Canada continues to be both a laggard in its own climate action, and an obstacle to international cooperation. And Patrick…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich weighs in on the absolute moral rot within the Trump regime and its corporate cronies. Bill McKibben points out that the…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Trenz Pruca examines how tax policy biased toward the wealthy has exacerbated the U.S.' already-toxic economic inequality. And Dean Baker interviews Joseph Stiglitz about…
On Reforming Capitalism
These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Lane Brown examines how key elements of cognitive ability may be degrading - including due to constant exposure to personalities selected for their vociferous…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Connie Loizos warns that the growth of "buy now, pay later" financing for the essentials of life parallels the wider use of unsustainable debt…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Prem Sikka discusses how any prospect of meaningful change for the better depends on prying power out of the hands of the wealthiest…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Daniel Drache and Marc Froese offer a reminder that we know all too well what a Donald Trump "trade deal" looks like - making…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts report on Antonio Guterres' warning at the start of the COP30 climate conference that we can't afford more…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Kaitlin Tosh and Michelle Inez Simon examine how Elon Musk's takeover of X has led to the systematic pushing of right-wing propaganda on users…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Is LNG dirtier than coal?
We all know, do we not, that natural gas is at least the short term... The post Is LNG dirtier than coal? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…