John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His dystopian novel, Splinterlands, a Dispatch Books original (with Haymarket Books), will appear this fall. He is a TomDispatch regular.
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.