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Transnational corporations are heavily pressuring Mexico to open up its energy sector as part of the official review this year of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. As La Jornada reported, Larry Rubin, head of the American Society of Mexico, recently emphasized the need for the trade pact to advance North American energy integration and establish clear rules for private investment in the energy sector. At the same time, the Mexican government is moving toward reopening the country to hydraulic fracturing (fracking), claiming that this would help achieve “energy sovereignty” by reducing reliance on natural gas imports from the United States. President Claudia Sheinbaum’s…
Having grown up near San Jose and watched every California gubernatorial debate so far, I’m genuinely surprised that San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan isn’t polling far higher among Democratic voters. Source link
Florida just created its own alternative to A.P. United States History, and it seems pretty good. Headlines describe it as “anti-woke” and “more conservative,” but this framing is a little tired and unsophisticated. Instead, I’d offer that it seems a lot more balanced and positive on Western/Enlightenment ideals than the curriculum it is replacing. It seems rather similar to what most of us were taught in school, provided we attended school prior to the late 2010s. The recommended textbook for the course is Hillsdale professor Wilfred M. McClay’s Land of Hope: An Invitation to the American Story, which—though I have…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s questions this week about the scale of antidepressant use in the United States should be welcomed, whatever your politics. Long-stated concerns about psychiatric medication are now being taken seriously, and Kennedy has announced initiatives aimed at reducing the use of SSRIs, the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants. These […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
The U.S. Supreme Court has now entered the final stretch of its 2025–2026 term. The oral arguments have all been heard, and the merits cases have all been submitted. What’s left now is the writing and announcing of all of the remaining opinions. We’ll get those opinions sometime later this month or next, as the Court typically wraps everything up by the end of June, just in time for a nice summer holiday. So what’s left? Here are 11 big cases that I’ll be watching out for in the weeks ahead. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason.…
A small subset of just about any population somehow manage to escape national or ideological conditioning, writes Lawrence Davidson. An example of such a person is U.N. Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese. Girl in Gaza on her way to get food, Aug. 25, 2024. (Jaber Jehad Badwan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0) By Lawrence Davidson TothePointAnalysis.com Most folks are caught up in points of view shaped for them by others. These others can vary from parents, teachers, religious figures, writers of various persuasions, podcasters and ideologically driven politicians of right or left who, in their worse manifestations are wolves in…
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – the overaccumulation of capital at the world scale – has never been worse in absolute terms. Capital is especially frenetic within financial circuitries, amplifying extreme uneven development across the world system, but especially in the periphery and even middle-income Asia, as a result of the accompanying geopolitical stresses, at a time of extraordinary Artificial Intelligence bubbling in the New York Stock Exchange. Although the excess capacity of productive capital, is – in this cycle of accumulation – mainly emanating from the…
On the Consequences of Louisiana v. Callais Decision Source link
A Tricky Handoff at the Federal Reserve Source link
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Duaa Eldeib for ProPublica They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern. Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for…