Friday, June 12, 2026

Tag: pandemic

Over 20M Americans set to lose healthcare coverage Jan. 1 after...

Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely.

Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels...

Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.

Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China at the...

The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines and other nations to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to a new investigation by Reuters.

The great unwinding

The failing battle for health and healthcare in these all too disunited states.

Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian: Optimism of the will

Three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Medicare for All could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid...

"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."

The struggle for what’s essential

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

America unmasked

Did the long pandemic spawn a new kind of repression?

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

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

How artist cooperatives found new ways to help creative people thrive...

How artist collectives are helping creatives stay afloat during the pandemic.

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Questions grow after analysis links US strike to water facilities serving 20,000 Iranians

Satellite imagery, bomb fragment analysis, and damage assessments have intensified scrutiny over whether U.S. forces struck civilian water infrastructure near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns about potential violations of international law.

Reading the Times

And not just the paper.
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Trump admin guts vital sea monitoring, ‘tears out the eyes and ears of science’:...

David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.

Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as basic needs of...

The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.

Deviant Donald, self-destructive dictator

As explosive prices erase tax relief,/ Must one be rich to afford ground beef?