Saturday, September 5, 2026

Sanders and Khanna unveil bill to lower drug prices to combat greedy corporations

"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?"

How a company with ties to a Dakota Access Pipeline owner flew over protests...

Why was a private company allowed into this airspace when no one else was? What is the background on this company?

Love that dirty water… and dirty wars!!

An EPA assessment in 2013 estimated that infrastructure needs for small water systems would total 64.5 billion dollars over 20 years.

5 people died from eating lettuce, but Trump’s FDA still won’t make farms test...

The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.

UnitedHealthcare interrupts doctor mid-surgery to question patient’s cancer care

A Texas doctor was forced to step out of the operating room after an insurance company questioned her patient’s approved cancer treatment.

Two years in, we need to learn the lessons of this pandemic

It’s time we flex the power that comes with being essential and fight for a new economy that favors people, not just corporations.

‘Absolute robbery’: Gilead announces $3,120 price tag for Covid-19 drug developed with $70 million...

“Taxpayers provided funding for the development of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

For Future Summer Olympics, Climate Change Is No Game

At the U.S. Olympic marathon trials held in Los Angeles to choose the team for the Rio Olympic Games this year, 30 percent of the runners dropped out of the race due to the heat. It will be even worse 4 years from now.

First plaintiff goes to trial against Monsanto claiming RoundUp to blame for terminal cancer

With thousands of cases being brought against Monsanto, the company's infamous weed-killer, RoundUp, is to blame by many cancer sufferers.

No, Gov. Snyder, Flint’s Water Wasn’t Poisoned by ‘Government’

Perhaps it is inevitable, but it is a shame that some people are gaming out how to profit politically from the lead poisoning of the children of Flint, Mich.