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News Planet Just Had Costliest Decade for Global Natural Disasters: Insurance Industry Report The Mississippi Basin floods were among the disasters with a massive price tag. Read more |
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News Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually "Governments must urgently adopt circular economy solutions if we want to achieve a high quality of life for close to 10 billion people by mid-century without destabilizing critical planetary processes." Read more |
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News Warning of 'Environmental Ruin and With It a Human Tragedy,' Report Details Triple Threat to Coral Reefs These marine ecosystems "are under imminent risk of destruction" because of the human-caused climate crisis, pollution, and overfishing. Read more |
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Views A Stock Market Boom Is Not the Basis of Shared Prosperity Our addiction to stock price inflation is politically and economically toxic. It is rooted in an illusion promoted by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and mainstream economists that conflates the stock market and shared prosperity. Read more |
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News 'Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,' Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." Read more |
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Further A Very Naughty Boy The many faces of the brilliant Terry Jones Damn. Terry Jones - director, author, Chaucer scholar, Spam Lady, co-founder of the surreal, mordant, stubbornly and gleefully weird Monty Python, its "guardian spirit" and "the beating heart of it all” - has died at 77 after what his family called "a... Read more |
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News In Response to Oxfam Inequality Report, Sanders Calls for Global Movement to Counter 'Greed of Billionaire Class' The White House hopeful emphasized the need to bring people across the globe together to work for "a world of economic, social, political and environmental justice." Read more |
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Views If Worker Pay Had Kept Pace With Productivity Gains Since 1968, Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 an Hour In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States. Read more |
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News In Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It's Medicare for All "Major changes are needed," declares the 159,000-member American College of Physicians, "to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little." Read more |
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News 'Welp, Glad That's Settled:' Global Poll Finds Majority Believe Capitalism More Harmful Than Good The majority also said they believe they won't be better off five years from now. Read more |