Friday, August 28, 2026

Study: Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada

One of the most important finds appears to be the definitive link the researchers found between fracking and earthquakes in the region.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs: US sanctions have devastated Venezuela & killed over 40,000 since 2017

“American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It’s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.”

Merger mania

When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,”...

Donald Trump Does Not Understand Solar (or Wind) Power

Trump is clearly not the candidate for environmentally-conscience voters.

The Trump-Putin meeting and the fate of the Earth

The imminent meeting between Trump and Putin will affect the chances that the young people we love – and so many others around the world – will have a future.

Waging class war in comfort

Do the corporate chiefs now parading into the new Trump administration see the United States as just another enterprise – to fleece?

The next big fight

Hands off Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security — expand and improve these programs — don’t cut them.

Would Donald tax a fellow Trump?

If Trump is serious about penalizing companies that offshore jobs, he should start with his daughter's.

Prediction: Biden is going to win the Nov. 3 election

A trip through northeast Pennsylvania’s played-out coal country to NY’s rural Catskills tells the story.

Bezos, McConnell, and Covid capitalism

The heinous resurgence of COVID makes clear that corporations need more – not fewer – incentives to protect their workers from the virus.