By Mike Shea Cedar Ridge As you may have heard, a Canadian company, Rise Gold Corporation, and its subsidiary Rise Grass Valley, Inc. (Rise GV), have filed an application with Nevada County for a permit to reopen the Idaho Maryland gold mine. I wanted to know as much as possible about the proposed operation,…
Professor Richard Wolfe explains why it doesn’t trickle down:
Editor’s Note: See also: “CELEBRATED TO DEATH: MEMORIAL DAY IS KILLING US” By Don Pelton On this Memorial Day, I must speak a few words in support of warriors, and in opposition to war. Despite reaching my formative young adulthood during the anti-war 1960s, and despite my minor experience with something remotely similar to combat…
In this excerpt from her interview with Democracy Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurie Garrett says her most optimistic estimate is that the COVID-19 pandemic will be over in about 36 months. Her description of the complexity of developing a vaccine for most of the over 7 billion humans on planet Earth is very realistic…
By Erik Edstrom First published at Tomdispatch.com “Every day is a copy of a copy of a copy.” That meme, from the moment when Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club offers a 1,000-yard stare at an office copy machine, captures this moment perfectly — at least for those of us removed from the front lines of the…