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Germany benefited from the cancellation of most of its debt as of February 27, 1953 (...) no other country has received such a favourable treatment. - Eric Toussaint

Feb. 27, 2023

Feb. 22, 2023

Sane, logical article about a green transition. It mentions "systemic roadblocks" at one point, but fails to consider what is surely the largest--our dominant, global, for-profit, eternal-growth economic system.Which is not to argue that a post-capitalist system will make the green transition a piece of cake. Even with genuine democratic social and economic planning, we'll still need to "get better at using less."

            -- Gene McGuckin

Feb. 17, 2023

Feb. 22, 2023

Feb. 15, 2023

There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

Feb. 16, 2023

COVID-is-a-hoax crowd caused thousands more deaths, hundreds of millions in hospital costs: report

We’ve seen a lot of disinformation over the last three years shared by anti-science bad actors, usually with an agenda to disrupt and confuse.

Then there is misinformation, much more common and differing from disinformation with regard to intent.

 Feb 20, 2023 

First in a 3-part series

David Spratt is research director for the Melbourne-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration and coauthor of the book Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action (Scribe, 2008). He published “What Lies Beneath: The Underestimation of Existential Climate Risk” with Ian Dunlop in 2018.

Feb. 18, 2023