Why strongmen are losing the fight against Covid
One big lesson from the Covid crisis: lying makes it worse.
Homeless Activists Go Organic And Feed An Entire Shelter With Rooftop Garden
Activists in Atlanta are working with the homeless to produce healthy organic food instead of expecting donations.
Schumer backs Sanders’ proposal to include dental, hearing, and vision care in Medicare
“With the current Medicare platform, those three things are just left out, like it’s no big deal,” said the Democratic leader. “But it is a big deal and we should fix it.”
Trump’s pick for attorney general could be big boost to Monsanto
Trump, who reportedly holds between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Monsanto stocks, does not support the labeling of foods made with genetically modified ingredients.
Dakota Access pipeline approved a week after co-owner’s pipeline spilled 600,000 gallons of oil...
“You could just smell this oil smell. A customer walks in and says ‘nobody smoke.’ You could see it just spewing.”
Bayer appeal to dismiss Roundup weedkiller lawsuits rejected by U.S. Supreme Court
Bayer said it plans to replace glyphosate-based weed-killing ingredients in products for non-professionals in the U.S. with alternative active ingredients in order to “manage litigation risk in the U.S.,” but not due to concerns about safety.
USDA Shirking Obligation to Give Consumers Clarity Over Herbicide Residues on Food
The Environmental Protection Agency, which sets the tolerance levels allowed for glyphosate and other pesticides has said glyphosate is safe at certain defined tolerance levels, and has actually raised those tolerance levels in recent years.
Tear gas is way more dangerous than police let on—especially during the coronavirus pandemic
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, but it is classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.
Medicare for All could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid deaths: Study
"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."
Institutionalized elderly are facing a massacre, not an epidemic
The other epidemic, meanwhile, is causing what amounts to a massacre of the nation’s institutionalized elderly in nursing homes.