Week in Review: 'Fighting Like Hell' in the Age of the Oligarchs

The Week in Review

'Corrupt as Hell': Demands for Clarence Thomas to Resign Follow New Details of Wife's Election Scheming "If Clarence Thomas had any shame, he would resign immediately," said one advocacy group. "But he doesn't." Read more → Behind Starbucks Union-Busting Stands CEO Who Got $940,000,000 Richer During Pandemic "His personal pandemic wealth gains of $940 million alone could pay for a $3,847 bonus for every Starbucks worker," notes a new report. Read more → Climate Scientists Urge More Civil Disobedience to Signal 'How Deep in the Sh*t We Are' New paper argues direct action "by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities... surrounding the climate crisis in a way that less visible and dispassionate evidence provision does not." Read more → GOP Repeatedly Opposed Infrastructure Upgrades. Now This Mississippi City Has No Safe Water "We didn't get to this total crisis point overnight," said one journalist. "It's been decades in the making. This is the predictable result." Read more → Migrant Mass Drowning in Texas Spurs Renewed Calls for Immigration Reform "Congress must act quickly to pass solutions that bring compassion and security to our border," said one advocacy group after at least nine people drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. Read more → 'Honor Her Memory... by Fighting Like Hell': Barbara Ehrenreich Dies at 81 "We've lost a gifted writer and a relentless fighter for the working class," said one admirer of the journalist, author, and labor rights champion. Read more →

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Opinion

The 'Green Revolution' Has Failed in Africa and It's Time for a New Direction AGRF, its donors, and African governments should be taking bold action to support resilient agriculture that works with nature, builds crop and diet diversity, respects climatic patterns, and empowers marginalized farmers. by Anne Maina Read more → A Zombie Herd of Independent Minds How conservatism extols rugged individualism while fashioning a mob of abject conformists. by Mike Lofgren Read more → More Money, More Problems (for Our Democracy and Our Planet) We're on a slippery slope of complete democratic collapse—and corresponding planetary collapse due to inaction on climate change—if we don't act fast. by Bill McKibben, Shana Gallagher, Joseline Garcia Read more → Medicare Dis-Advantage: Shortchanging the Patients While Enriching the Insurer There should be no out-of-pocket barriers to care when it is needed. The existence of these costs is why so many Medicare recipients opt for a private Medicare Advantage plan. However, this, and all such efforts to privatize the public Medicare program, harm patients and steal from the public purse. Medicare Advantage must be ended, and any new privatization efforts, like ACO REACH, must be opposed. by Leonard Rodberg Read more →

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