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Israel-Axis of Resistance Escalation and the Minority Report

The hammering by pols and pundits that the earlier Iran attack “failed” (when it was intended to be a show of capability as opposed to do harm) has turned that into a widely accepted fact, leading to continued, dangerous underestimation of Iran.

Fear and Loathing in New Normal Germany

If you criticize the government, or if you compare the government to Nazi Germany, and if you do that using your book-cover art featuring a swastika behind a Covid mask, then you’re absolutely officially a “hate criminal,” and an “anti-Semite,” and a “trivializer of the Holocaust.”

Green Jobs or Greenwashing?

Behind each piece of green technology is extraction. A recent International Energy Agency report estimates that reaching “net zero” by 2050 would require six times the amount of minerals used today.

Communities are Responding to Federal Court Fluoridation Ruling

The first to act was the Yorktown Water District in New York, which provides water to over 50,000 people in the towns of Yorktown and Somers. On Thursday, September 26th, Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman ordered the suspension of fluoridation as a precautionary measure.

Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors

This is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance, or torture, or habeas corpus, or secret prisons, or rendition, or any of a dozen other things, we ignore laws. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.

From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds

Farmers’ leaders from 18 states in India have resolved to oppose GM crops. They say GMOs in agriculture are harmful to human and animal health, the environment, farmers’ livelihoods and trade and are based on failed promises.