Tag: Biden

‘Rearranging the deck chairs as the climate ship is going down’: Critics pan US carbon offset ‘scheme’ 

The Biden administration faced sharp criticism from environmental justice champions on Wednesday after U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry unveiled a voluntary carbon offset scheme that he and philanthropic foundation partners say would unleash private investment to expedite a cle

Source: ‘Rearranging the deck chairs as the climate ship is going down’: Critics pan US carbon offset ‘scheme’ – Alternet.org

Liberalism and Fascism –

For those who may have forgotten, Joe Biden was elected in 2020 to ‘restore’ humane and technically competent governance that would send the nefarious political forces then aligning in the US packing. In fact, the Biden administration has overseen one of the worst failures to govern in modern history. In 2021, Biden’s first year in office, half again more Americans (150%) died from Covid than had under Donald Trump. And an additional 500,000 ‘excess deaths’ brought the total to 1.1 million excess deaths in the US during Biden’s first year in office.

Source: Liberalism and Fascism – CounterPunch.org

Want To Know What’s Going On in Our Economy? Talk to Workers.

The Biden administration has created more jobs in the first term of a presidency than any other presidency in American history—and with just three weeks to go before the midterm elections, his administration has not been shy about touting these unprecedented job numbers. And yet the president’s approval numbers continue to lag and many Democrats up for election across the country find themselves trailing their Republican opponents. Why, amid one of the strongest post-recession recoveries in modern history, is such a positive jobs narrative falling on deaf ears?

Source: Want To Know What’s Going On in Our Economy? Talk to Workers. | Portside