Yearly Archives: 2026
EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over Supreme Court fight, agency records show
The June 17 meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer CEO Bill Anderson and two other top Bayer executives, came as Germany-based Bayer was working to quash costly U.S. litigation.
Fossil fuels as a weapon of war:’ US-Israeli war on Iran exposes world’s dangerous...
This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain.
Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain households nationwide
New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.
War with Iran to test China’s energy security
U.S. military action is disrupting key energy suppliers, putting China’s reliance on foreign sources to the test. Even as Beijing strengthens domestic capacity and diversifies imports, the crisis exposes the limits of its energy strategy.
Veterans who depend on mental health care keep losing their therapists under Trump
Veterans are facing an array of problems: They can’t get the VA to call them back, they see trusted therapists leave and they can wait as long as six months for therapy.
Why hasn’t the world set on fire?
"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger." - James Baldwin
A growing presence of ‘forever chemicals’ in California produce, new study
According to Environmental Working Group, 37 percent of California-grown produce samples contained at least one of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues.
‘The first victim was the truth’—the cognitive war on Venezuela
We can fight against this cognitive war by insisting on an alternative vision for U.S. foreign policy, one in which the country becomes a good neighbor by centering its relationship with the hemisphere (and the world) on peace, solidarity and shared prosperity.
The US built a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it.
The civilian protection mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
Social Security data allegations spark investigation into Trump’s DOGE initiative
A whistleblower complaint now under federal investigation alleges that a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer attempted to remove and share highly sensitive Social Security data, raising serious questions about government data security and oversight.