As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises
Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.
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Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Read more...The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Read more...Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Read more...Could a Far-Right vs Centre-Left Showdown Be the Future of British Politics?
Amid global pressures, a centrist Labour government could face a far-right opposition, with no true reformists in sight
Read more...Senators Ramp Up 14th Amendment Pressure on Biden to Counter GOP Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship
Although the GOP created the debt ceiling, Democrats are culpable for neither challenging its Constitutionality nor using the platinum coin.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Now Significant Among the Young
The US cancer of deaths of despair has progressed from less educated middle aged whites to the young of all stripes.
Read more...Some US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine
While it is now acceptable to suggest negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, that’s still a long way from a needed consensus.
Read more...As More Hospitals Create Police Forces, Critics Warn of Pitfalls
More American exceptionalism: cops maintaining order in hosptials.
Read more...‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million
A new study tallies the cost of US war-fomenting in the Middle East. The numbers get big fast.
Read more...Eurobanks and London Firms Insist Very Bad Things Will Happened if Euro Derivatives Clearing Moves to Continent
anks and loser clearinghouses are complaining about a (long) planned derivatives relocation to Europe. But is this mainly special pleading?
Read more...The Taliban and the Islamic State Continue to Fight for Afghanistan’s Future
True to form for US nation-breaking exercises, Afghanistan is afficted by continuing facional power strugges.
Read more...The Mercenaries Who Fight for American Empire
How private military contractors, aka mercenaries, are now an essential part of America’s increasingly privatized wars.
Read more...What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground
A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.
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