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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection. His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences. A complete list of his publications can be found here:
Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.
He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.
Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.
Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI. Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
Hamas-run health ministry quietly removes thousands from Gaza death toll, researchers find SHARE 
Some 3,400 names were removed from the most recent death reports from the Strip, raising concerns of inflated figures by Hamas. The story is repeated, almost verbatim, in multiple news outlets, though a revised figure after all the deductions has not been shown, and the previous figure of 50,000 is repeated instead. The total includes natural deaths too and figures including women & children are grossly inflated. Hamas has child soldiers, who are counted as "children" by Hamas.
Monday, March 31, 2025
The Case Against European Rearmament SHARE
If we truly want to strengthen Europe,
the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union
without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities,
rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir
Putin is finished with it.
ATHENS – Inducting
Ukraine into NATO after forcing Russia back behind its pre-2014 borders
has been the only strategic aim EU leaders have allowed themselves to
contemplate since Russia’s invasion three years ago. Alas, well before
US President Donald Trump’s re-election, this aim slipped into the realm
of infeasibility. The writing had been on the wall for a while.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
EPA Deregulation Would Be a 'Tragedy' for Health, Experts Say SHARE
Physicians and scientists say rollbacks on pollution, transportation and greenhouse gas emissions regulations are a serious risk to public health.
At a virtual panel hosted by the American Lung Association on Wednesday,
physicians and health experts highlighted the human health implications
of the EPA’s efforts to roll back regulations on particulate matter air pollution, greenhouse gases, transportation emissions and more.
In the meantime, if the EPA fails to enforce existing laws and
regulations, advocates are also prepared to take the agency to court.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Donald Trump's economic masterplan SHARE
Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will fizzle out. They assume that Trump will huff and puff until reality exposes the emptiness of his economic rationale. They have not been paying attention: Trump’s tariff fixation is part of a global economic plan that is solid — albeit inherently risky.
Monday, February 24, 2025
The Argentinian President's crypto scam exploited the dangerous illusion of apolitical money SHARE
On Friday 14th February, President Milei of Argentina tweeted about the $LIBRA coin, encouraging his followers to buy it on the grounds that it would “help fund small businesses and start-upsâ€Â. As if that weren’t enough, he shared a link for people to buy it online. Naturally, within a few hours, $LIBRA’s price shot up. Many more people, trying to escape the poverty that Millei’s policies have subjected them to, rushed in to buy. Alas, soon after the price of $LIBRA crashed and they lost their money.
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Monday, February 17, 2025
The incredible cost of Bitcoin SHARE
"Source AI is not what it is supposed to be. Inspired by my son, who attends higher education, I asked chat-GPT to write an article about the energy use of bitcoin in the style of my blog post series ´The real costs of making money´. Look here. Guess what: chat-GPT did not emulate my style…"
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. SHARE
Greg Palast, not only the best election-investigating reporter, but almost the only one after an election, has done a very deep dive into modern Jim Crow vote suppression techniques used by the Republican party (Palast is non-partisan, but only one party does this).
The results are in: Trump would have lost if millions of votes and voters were properly counted in the swing states of: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania & Georgia.
The details are in. The studies are made by reputable authorities - unlike the unqualified election deniers on the Republican side. Organizations from the ACLU to the NAACP agree. But will the MSM or courts listen? The false election denialism of the Trump forces accomplished one thing: they made it almost impossible for true election denial to be properly recognized.
Series: Elections (1 Articles, 31772 views) 
Monday, January 20, 2025
Trump's 'Tech-Bro' Scheme to Boost Crypto, Sink the Dollar, End Democracy and Get Fantastically Rich SHARE
A few short years ago, Donald Trump was no fan of crypto. He said it wasn’t real money. Today, he brags he’s the crypto president. What changed?
Simply put, Trump has figured out an angle to use cryptocurrency to enrich himself beyond the wealth of the Ottoman Pashas.
The big payoff will come if Trump and his coterie of tech
billionaires and oligarchs are able to pull off an unprecedented assault
on the dollar. The intent would be to replace the government-controlled
world monetary system with a privatized system based on cryptocurrency.
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Addressing Congress, Netanyahu lays out vision for postwar Gaza, anti-Iran alliance SHARE
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a speech before Congress, after being invited by the Republican leader Mike Johnson. Many progressives find little to like about Israel but compared to the Hamas death cult they are far more clearly aligned with progressive and Western values. Bottom Line: Netanyahu said the war in Gaza would end tomorrow if Hamas “surrenders, disarms and returns all the hostages.” Hamas chooses not to do that since every Palestinian death is a martyr PR victory for Hamas and a victory for their Iranian backers. Netanyahu calls progressives supporting Hamas "useful idiots." He is right.
Friday, July 19, 2024
"My Leftist Worldview Got Disproved, Hamas DOES Represent Palestinians": Dr Einat Wilf SHARE
(Video) Dr. Einat Wilf talks to Ollie about how the hypothesis that land/gestures for peace could result in a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Arabs has been empirically disproved. Together they discuss what needs to be done to tackle the roots of the Israeli-Arab conflict, the need to keep UNRWA defunded, as well as the antisemitism and ignorance around the world.
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
Human Rights Watch details hundreds of war crimes SHARE
Organization with long history of criticizing
Israel says number of crimes impossible to determine, including
gender-based violence; Israeli watchdog group slams ‘token’ report.
Hamas led armed Palestinian groups in committing hundreds of highly
coordinated war crimes, including attacks on civilians and gender-based
violence, during the October 7 onslaught on Israel that set off the war
in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said in a comprehensive report published
Wednesday.
Friday, July 12, 2024
'You were wrong not to kill me': Gazan activist slams Hamas for attack on him SHARE
‘You are partners of the occupation in killing
us,’ Amin Abed says of terror group, in videos recorded from hospital
bed; admits thinking of leaving Strip for fear of being killed'
Some people wonder why ordinary Gaza citizens don't rise up and overthrow Hamas, after it brought a completely predictable massive retaliation on Gaza when 1,200 of Israel's citizens were brutally slaughtered. This man's story is one example of why.
Friday, July 5, 2024
The World's Richest Countries Across 3 Metrics SHARE
How do you measure the economic success of a country?
By one classic measure, GDP per capita shows individual economic
prosperity. But comparing countries simply by this metric doesn’t tell
the whole story. To get a better idea of living standards, it helps to
look at how far your money will go along with adjusting for labor
productivity.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
New Gaza famine report reveals grim March predictions were vastly exaggerated SHARE
A report released last week by the Integrated Food Security Phase
Classification (IPC) organization, which found that there is not
currently a famine in Gaza, has confirmed doubts that were raised
earlier this year about claims of mass starvation, due to the absence of
evidence.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
We live in a country where most commentators declared the liar the debate winner SHARE
Twenty-four hours after the word “panic” appeared on television screens, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell provides what he calls “calm analysis” of the first presidential debate of the 2024 election.
Lawrence provides impassioned reasons why a televised debate is one of the least viable ways to pick a president, having almost nothing to do with the actual job of running the presidency, after one of the least viewed debates in television history. Biden's performance was admittedly terrible, says O'Donnell, who had long government experience himself prior to being an anchor, but does it matter?
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Agrees to Plead Guilty in Deal With U.S. SHARE
"Barring last-minute snags, the deal would bring to an end a prolonged battle that began after the WikiLeaks founder became alternately celebrated and reviled for revealing state secrets in the 2010s."
After over a decade in various forms of confinement, each worse than the last, including Britain's notorious Belmarsh prison, Julian Assange is expected to be finally free, after pleading guilty to a single count in the Northern Mariana Islands, with time served & a final trip to his native Australia. But even this minor conviction will serve as the first time a U.S. court has found someone guilty for journalistic activity, which will cast a chilling pall over any future attempts to leak things our government might find embarrassing. Meanwhile, suffering several health hits while in near solitary confinement, Assange will struggle to build a new life with his wife & children.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
'Operation Arnon': How 4 hostages were freed from Hamas captivity in central Gaza SHARE
Daylight mission to surprise captors; special
forces concurrently raid two buildings where hostages held by
Palestinian families; rescue vehicle breaks down after coming under fire.
The Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police on
Saturday morning carried out one of the most daring, complex, high-risk
yet successful operations amid the war against Hamas, rescuing four
hostages alive from the terror group’s captivity in the Gaza Strip. The
mission was conducted in broad daylight and in an area where Israeli
forces had not previously operated.
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Thursday, June 6, 2024
The genocide claim against Israel doesn't add up SHARE
The ratio of combatant-to-civilian casualties in
Gaza should be recognized as a historical achievement of protecting
civilian lives.
“The genocide in Gaza” cause has been
roiling university campuses in the US and around the globe. The genocide
accusation is the subject of a lawsuit filed by South Africa against
Israel at the International Court of Justice and has been repeated by a
few other countries, some scholars, endless activists, and one US
congresswoman. Its political importance is not restricted to Israel.
President Biden, it is argued, might be punished in the upcoming
elections by progressive voters for complicity with this alleged
genocide. The accusation could thus exert tremendous influence on world
politics. This is a fascinating socio-political phenomenon since it is
easy to prove that there is no genocide.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Assange Extradition Delayed, But US May Avoid Appeal SHARE
The British High Court of Justice partially granted WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange’s request to appeal and delayed his extradition to the
United States. However, the U.S. government was given an opportunity to
provide “assurances” that may result in his extradition in the next
months.
A UK appeals court granted a limited appeal in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case and delayed extradition. But the US may prevent an appeal.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Did Stock Buybacks Knock the Bolts Out of Boeing? SHARE
You’d think that Boeing would not compromise on safety, given that one small production error or software glitch could down a plane worth hundreds of millions of dollars while killing hundreds of people in one blow. But you’d be wrong.
For two decades leading up to the incident, wealth has been sucked
out of the company via legalized stock manipulation to benefit Wall
Street and Boeing CEOs.Since 2013, the Boeing Corporation initiated seven annual stock buybacks.
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