Tag: pandemic
5 ways environmental damage drives human diseases like COVID-19
Wildlife trade, deforestation, industrial farming and other factors threaten both animals and human health.
Instead of protecting public health during COVID-19 crisis, Trump moves to...
"Every federal dollar wasted on this effort is a dollar stolen from cleaning up the industry's toxic pollution legacy in the Navajo Nation and across the West."
‘Reopen’ protest movement created, boosted by fake grassroots tactics
The people who are doing the demonstrating may really be frustrated and upset, but new research, and journalistic investigation, is revealing that there are powerful forces behind them, egging them on, who want their influence to remain secret.
New $484B relief bill lacks funds for food aid, rent relief,...
"You are not trying to fix this bill for mom-and-pops. And we have to fight to fund hospitals, fighting to fund testing. That is what we’re fighting for in this bill. It is unconscionable."
Earth Day activists wanted to disrupt the fossil fuel industry. The...
We need to speed the transition to the solar panels and wind turbines that engineers have worked so mightily to improve and are now the cheapest way to generate power.
Federal documents: More than 300,000 likely to die if restrictions are...
Experts said government officials should publicize their coronavirus assumptions so everyone can be confident in their work.
Coronavirus and the height of corporate welfare
We must stop bailing out corporations. It’s time we bail out people.
Coronavirus relief bills bail out corporations as small businesses & workers...
“But if you’re a big corporation, the Federal Reserve has $4.5 trillion in reserves ready for you.”
How COVID-19 showed America’s dependence on blue-collar workers
These workers are the lifeblood of the nation. They step up every day and keep America running—even during a pandemic.
Warren says by backing protests, Trump is ‘trying to turn this...
"Trump is *literally* trying to incite violence in states across the country. It's despicable how low he’ll sink to score political points."
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization
Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.
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?