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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,–too weak to live, too cowardly to die.
American author Biff Thuringer’s powerful, entertaining and finely-crafted novel “Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic” depicts “a complicated shell game”, “a billion-dollar shadow economy in dirty toxic chemicals”.
Aya Velázquez is one of the journalists who broke the Robert Koch Institut Leaks story, which documented how government officials and health authorities deceived the German public during the roll-out of the New Normal in 2020-2022.
Here’s 17 reasons why it really matters.
The collusion between Big Tech and the Trump administration is meant to carry out a specific agenda, one that removes pesky regulations and paves the way for lucrative contracts to develop massive AI data centers and computer chips, avoid costs associated with tariffs, and more.
Not only is it bad for democracy, it trivializes antisemitism and allows promoters of racism and ethnic cleansing off the hook.
Academics and policymakers make data-free assumptions that most of the increase in CO2 in 2024 comes from burning fossil fuels and cement production, with a small proportion from deforestation and nothing from the loss of soil organic matter.
Netanyahu’s government is going down and he wants to take America with him.
Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a neo-totalitarian global-capitalist dystopia.
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.
Human rights and First Amendment lawyers say Energy Transfer’s case against Greenpeace is part of an escalating attack on nonprofits and protestors.
An invitation to embrace the ancient (globally ubiquitous) indigenous knowing of Wealth which can only be unlocked through reciprocal relationships with our non-human kin.
There is nothing RFK Jr. can do at the Department of Health to make up for what’s happening at the EPA.