A CPEG Tribute to Mel Rothenberg 1934-2023
By Ron Baiman Mel participating in a panel discussion series hosted by Becoming We the People and the Social Justice Council of the First...
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- Jun 27
- 1 min
The Dollar as World Currency?
By Bill Barclay "The dollar is our currency but it's your problem," - John Connally, Nixon's Sec of Treasury, 1971. Connally was talking...
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- May 24
- 1 min
The Russian Peace Song Video Project
by Steve Balkin The Russian Peace Song Video Project is a soft power effort to try to stop the invasion of Ukraine. This Project, started...
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- Feb 28
- 2 min
The Political Economy of Geoengineering or Direct Climate Cooling
By Ron Baiman and Andrew Lockley Reviewer 2 does Geoengineering Podcast on Local cooling, Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) and...
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- Oct 29, 2022
- 1 min
2020 Unadjusted Exit Polls Show Red-Shift Mostly in Battleground States as in Prior US Elections
By Ron Baiman, Peter Peckarsky, and Jonathan Simon Oct. 24, 2022 For the record, just because the Trumpies have turned election fraud...
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- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
Exporting Water: Almonds, Cattle, and California Agriculture in the Era of Climate Cataclysm
By Bill Barclay, March, 2022. There is much talk about carbon footprints of human activity but we must also think about the water...
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 1 min
Our Two Climate Crises Challenge: Urgent Cooling and Long-Run GHG Removal & Ecological Regeneration
We are facing a short-term cooling crisis and a long-term GHG draw down planetary ecological crisis. We must address both. The first...
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- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
Please Sign this Urgent Petition to COP26 to Reduce Climate Catastrophe Now - Not Just in 30 Years!
Dear Friends, Comrades and Colleagues, Please sign the petition below urging action to reduce climate catastrophe now. Though absolutely...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
Geoengineering and the Green New Deal Podcast
Ron Baiman discusses his 2021 paper in this podcast. The paper: In Support of a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy (REME): A Global...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
No Covid Blues! - A Musical Video
CPEG is proud to disseminate this musical number as part of mission of building a more just and Covid free world!
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Emergency Appeal to Policy Makers to Save Arctic Sea-Ice and Reverse Climate Change
Put simply, there are two ways of crossing into (accelerated) catastrophic climate change in the next decade or two. One is through...
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- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Arctic Sea-Ice Triage, Carbon Cycle Restoration, and a Renewable Energy and Materials Economy
A Global Green New Deal (GGND) that Includes Arctic Sea-Ice Climate Triage and Carbon Cycle Climate Restoration, and that, following...
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- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Political Economy of US Agriculture: An Introduction
By William Barclay, Ph.D. and Bruce Parry, Ph.D. This is a PDF of a Power Point presentation by the authors to the meeting of CPEG in...
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- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
The Bankruptcy Games: Cashing Out in the COVID-19 Slump
In the first six months of the COVID-19 slump, unemployment levels in retail trade and oil and gas extraction were some of the highest...
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- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
Want to “Open Up” without a Vaccine? Implement Comprehensive Daily Testing
The cost of testing all workers, students, young children in childcare and daycare programs, and people in group quarters: including...
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- May 19, 2020
- 1 min
The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three Scenarios
The Post-COVID-19 Recovery: Three ScenariosWhat will the recovery from the slump driven by COVID-19 look like? There are arguments for at...
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- Apr 18, 2020
- 1 min
A Rolling Loan Gathers No Loss: Fracking, COIVD 19, and Zombie Finance
In 2000 the United States was the world’s largest importer of petroleum, taking in over 10 million barrels/day (bbl/d), consuming...
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- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Year Three of the Trump Economy: The US Economy in 2019
Last year was the tenth since the end of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) and the third of trump’s presidency. Trump came into office...
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- Oct 27, 2019
- 3 min
Restoring Chicago's Economic and Fiscal Health
Ron Baiman, Bill Barclay, Luis Diaz-Perez, Caitlyn Prosapio, June Zaccone March 21, 2015 Complete report is accessible here. Executive...
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- Sep 12, 2019
- 5 min
Open Letter to Fran Spielman: Please Correct Your Easy to Relocate Financial Trading Misstatement!
Ms. Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter Chicago Sun Times Sept. 12, 2019 Dear Ms. Spielman, It has come to our attention that in a 9/11/2019...
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