Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 21
Microplastics in beer, CNN "fact check" on Medicare for All is bogus, ZInke caught red handed trying to sell off public lands, and more.
Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
While the cost of health care is one of the overwhelming problems in the American health care system, short-term health plans do nothing to alter the underlying causes.
Study: Children have better nutrition when they live near forests
The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets. We show that forests cause these improvements."
Jury finds Monsanto guilty in first Roundup cancer trial, plaintiff to receive $289 million
A first of it's kind to go to trail, the case was brought against Monsanto by Johnson, 46, a former pest control manager for a California country school system, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Brazil’s leading food retailer goes cage-free
This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.
How Monsanto plants stories, suppresses science & silences dissent to sell a cancer-linked chemical
The company attempted to censor and discredit anyone and anything that contradicted their business interests.
‘Guilty on all counts!’: In historic victory, Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in...
"This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable."
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018
Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.
‘Major victory for public health:’ Court orders Trump EPA to ban pesticide that harms...
"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today... EPA's job is to protect public health, not industry profits."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Baltimore set to become first major American city to outlaw water privatization, House Democrats fight back against Big Pharma, Republicans want to give Trump the power to shut down media, and more.