Tag: death
Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US...
A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by 2050 under current emissions trends—an increase of roughly 30,000 deaths over today’s levels.
Gaza death toll nears 62,000 as thousands of missing presumed dead
As cease-fire talks continue, mass graves and bodies buried under rubble reveal the full scale of Israel’s U.S.-backed assault on Gaza.
Gaza’s unthinkable tragedy: Newborns abandoned, 90 percent casualties civilians
Decomposing newborns and civilian deaths raise questions about U.S. policy on Gaza.
The civilian deaths you haven’t heard about
The casualties of America's never-ending global war on terror.
As US mourns 500,000 lives lost, report shows billionaires added $1.3...
"Taxing those who have experienced windfall wealth gains to pay for COVID relief and recovery is a matter of equity and justice."
9-year-old girl’s asthma death officially linked to air pollution in unprecedented...
"Toxic air pollution is a public health crisis, especially for our children, and the inquest underlined yet again the importance of pushing ahead with bold policies such as expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone to inner London."
Rest in power, Kevin Zeese
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
America’s suicide epidemic
On a problem that literally has life-and-death significance for a pivotal portion of his base, Trump has been AWOL.
How colonization of the Americas killed 90 percent of their Indigenous...
There is now scientific evidence that links climate change to the first encounter and the cumulative destruction of Indigenous societies.
GOP House members reprimand racist Steve King – while silent on systemic...
Regardless of immigration status or increased agency authority – child abuse remains a federal felony.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.