Wednesday, August 26, 2026

The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture

Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.

Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

In Louisiana, data center hype faces AI regulation and community resistance

With Meta’s new Manhattan-sized project slated for the state, lawmakers are pushing new restrictions on artificial intelligence even as the Trump administration threatens to withhold broadband funding in response.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Trump’s boat strike campaign reaches 57 attacks as legal questions mount

The Trump administration’s latest strike killed two people and left one survivor missing, intensifying scrutiny of a military campaign that has offered no public evidence for its drug-trafficking claims while experts describe the attacks as extrajudicial killings.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.

Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California

A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.

Federal court rules Trump tariffs unlawful again as manufacturing promises continue to unravel

New trade data shows manufacturing jobs falling and deficits rising even as the administration pushes to preserve its sweeping tariff agenda through alternative legal strategies.