Wednesday, October 28, 2026

This American for-profit healthcare system would just as soon kill you as look at...

To this system, it doesn't matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That's why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.

After visiting Standing Rock, Swedish bank puts companies behind DAPL on watch

“It is becoming increasingly clear that financial institutions view the Dakota Access pipeline as a liability.”

In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’

"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."

The plant-based solution to hunger

Poverty, malnutrition, and hunger are a result of politics, not scarcity.
The Food and Drug Administration sign at the agency's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s...

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat

How many people will die for each rich American’s Trumpcare tax cut?

Trump and the other Republicans who support this bill share something in common: their personal tastes may be expensive but, for them, the lives of most Americans are insignificant and cheap.

Popular farm pesticide found in drinking water

Though the study was exclusive to Iowa, it could have far-reaching effects on the entire U.S.

Bayer AG to Purchase Monsanto

Bayer has decided to purchase and grower Monsanto.

Two major pipeline spills reported same week Trump advances KXL, DAPL

America's 2.5 million miles pipelines “suffer hundreds of leaks and ruptures every year, costing lives and money.”

Apocalyptic Capitalism

The Paris climate summit, dominated by the economic and political forces that are driving us toward destruction, will end with the usual empty rhetoric and a continued assault on the ecosystem.