America

Submitted by Farron Cousins via DeSmogBlog.com,

On January 16, 2016, President Obama declared a federal emergency for the city of Flint, Michigan, over the contamination of the city’s drinking water.

One year later, not only is the city still struggling to provide clean sources of water to the Michigan city’s population, but the plight of residents in Flint has opened up the conversation about a water crisis in the United States that very few people even knew existed.

Authored by Alastair Crooke, originally posted at The Automatic Earth blog,

If I had to craft a satirical letter about a butthurt mega rich silicon valley executive complaining over the Trump victory, I could not have done a better job than the real letter the CTO from Uber, Thuan Pham, sent to his fellow employees.

In what could only be described as a rift at Uber, in light of their CEO, Travis Kalanick,  agreeing to join Trump's select group of business advisers, Mr. Pham has made it clear that he does not agree with his CEO, and he most certainly does not accept America's democratically elected leader, Donald J. Trump.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

It's your choice, America--you can keep your cartels and the captured government that enables and protects them, or you can fix what's broken and unaffordable.

The Institute for New Economic Thinking's President Rob Johnson was interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand...

Interviewed as part of an extraordinary New Yorker investigation into growing anxiety among America’s corporate elite over the potential for anarchic social collapse, Institute President Robert Johnson saw his peers’ talk of bolt-holes in New Zealand as reflecting a deeper crisis.