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Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast

“We’re saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’… I think we’re way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that’s why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”

The AI bubble, like the housing bubble, is a big problem and it’s not complicated

There is a tremendous premium in intellectual circles on making the AI bubble problem more complicated than it is.

by Dean Baker March 17, 2026March 17, 2026

‘There are scarcities of everything’: Trump isn’t helping Cuba, he’s strangling it

“It’s a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK tells us.

by Marc Steiner March 17, 2026March 17, 2026

A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying.

“It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you’re coming from, nobody cared about us… we’ve been so let down and our trust is so broken. Everything’s been taken from us.”