There are only 2 places you can legally buy a gun in Mexico. The country is awash with guns. Where all the guns come from? NAFTA at work -The flow of guns south is called the "iron river" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"stuff we have made... now outweighs the web of life. The weight of the entire animal kingdom... is around 0.5% of Earth’s biomass, or around 4 gigatons of life. As of 2020, humans have produced 8 gigatons of plastics. By 2040, it will be double that.
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Doctorow: US hospitals are firing their waged nurses and replacing them with gig nurses .There's plenty of ways that these apps abuse nurses. These apps buy nurses' financial data from data-brokers so they can offer lower wages to nurses with lots of credit card debt pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/s...

pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/a... AI bubble is the new crypto bubble: you can tell because the same people are behind it, and they're doing the same thing with AI as they did with crypto – trying desperately to find a use case to cram it into, despite the yawning indifference and outright hostility

TH Press is Locked in the Library until we get it right; and a family tale – William Rosser, who died in France in 1917. His story from Wales, Broken Hill, Cobar, Lithgow via mining, as a navvy, unionists and soldier; plus the union hall in Le Havre tradeshallsydney.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...

Robodebt USA. This is the "international order":While Thompson was an executive at the company, UnitedHealthcare used an AI system to automate the denial of medical services. The program had a 90% error rate, resulting in thousands of people ...treatments. www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/06/d...

How City of Sydney Council is standing up to #Minns Labor gov’s anti protests regime - the toughest in Australia -& why residents say @risingtideaus.bsky.social protests at #coal port in #Newcastle are a local issue in #Sydney cityhub.com.au/city-of-sydn...

‘If Barnier’s government is voted down this week, it would be only the second time French lawmakers have taken such a step since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. It would also make Barnier the shortest-serving prime minister during the same period.’ on.ft.com/4iii2K2

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Forty Years of Struggle for Justice—Part One N.D. Jayaprakash. "lethal gases soon enveloped nearly 40 sq. km of the city, causing havoc in its wake before slowly dissipating in about two hours." www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/02/b...

I've shared this before. Seems like a good time to share it again.

part 3 of IALHI conference at Nanterre with Marie Bouglé, early French feminist collector; anarchists, CFDT, French , Belgian, German, Australian social and labour history collections . whew tradeshallsydney.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/t...