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Oct 16, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | JP Sottile |Rob Maurer
Climate-denying MAGA kooks believe juiced-up hurricanes are man-made. And they are half-right ... juiced-up hurricanes are essentially “man-made.” The precise term is "anthropogenic," but that's a big, elitist-sounding word ... so, "man-made" is fine.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | JP Sottile |Rob Maurer
The norm in presidential contests dating back at least to Carter vs. Reagan is that voters reward strength and confidence and they punish the perception of weakness. The conventional wisdom says Presidential campaigns don’t really start until after Labor Day. Apparently, the American people are champing at the bit right this very minute, fully poised to pore over policy positions, compare party platforms and analyze ad strategies.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
truthout.org | JP Sottile
The bad news about the plastic crisis often seems as ubiquitous as plastic itself. But, like many pressing issues, it also seems to come and go with a breeziness that belies its urgency. That couldn’t be truer than it is in the case of three recent reports on the penetration of microplastics, nanoplastics and plasticizers into our food and water and, therefore, into our bodies. The first story came from the intrepid investigators at Consumer Reports (CR).
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
antiwar.com | JP Sottile
I wonder if there’s a number that demarcates the upper limit of acceptable civilian casualties in Gaza. Is it ten thousand? Twenty thousand? Thirty thousand? And how about dead children? How many children is Israel free to kill in trade for the children killed by Hamas, and how many non-combatants total can it kill in exchange for the elusive goal of “wiping Hamas from the face of the Earth”? Is there a number?
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Kristina Marusic |Mike Ludwig |JP Sottile |Siri Chilukuri
A new study suggests that poor recordkeeping on hazardous waste disposal points to potential for bigger problems. ByKristina Marusic, EnvironmentalHealthNewsPublishedOctober 16, 2023A soybean field lies in front of a natural gas drilling rig on September 8, 2012, in Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania. Robert Nickelsberg / Getty ImagesPittsburgh — Waste from the oil and gas industry contains toxic and radioactive substances.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
newsvandal.substack.com | JP Sottile
The oft-repeated claim of “40 beheaded babies” has metastasized into its own battle, with news organizations that initially ran with the unsubstantiated assertion suddenly reversing course over the last 24 hours due to an inescapable lack of evidence.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Ashley Smith |JP Sottile |James Baratta |Alnoor Ladha
Activists in the global movement for debt abolition are gearing up to mobilize in Marrakesh, Morocco, where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are holding their annual meeting October 9-15, despite the devastating earthquake that laid waste last month to whole sections of the country.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Adam Mahoney |Mike Ludwig |JP Sottile |Jonathan Sharp
This story was originally published by Capital B. With their heads bowed, eyes shut, and hands locked, the Southwest Crossing Community Initiative starts every meeting with a prayer: “Please, protect us from a deadly explosion.” “And please, cover us … and ease our minds.” Southwest Crossing is an aging community in Houston where nearly 20 percent of residents are over 65. They know, as it is, the average American is expected to live only a decade after retirement.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Mike Ludwig |JP Sottile |Chris Walker
We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger out this week explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive agenda. Klein explains her initial motivation for the book was her own alter-ego, the author Naomi Wolf, for whom she has often been mistaken.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Julia Conley |Kwolanne Felix |Gareth Dale |JP Sottile
The Interior Ministry in eastern Libya said Tuesday that the confirmed death toll in flooding from Storm Daniel has risen past 5,200, with at least 10,000 people feared missing and at least a quarter of the Mediterranean port city of Derna destroyed, according to officials. “Bodies are lying everywhere — in the sea, in the valleys, under the buildings,” Civil Aviation Minister Hichem Chkiouat told Reuters on Tuesday. “I am not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the city has disappeared.
