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The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This has become the predictable and horrifying trajectory of the international community's response to the ongoing Israeli genocide.
By eliminating Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqeh, Israel has made a sinister statement that the genocide will spare no one. According to the monitoring website Shireen.ps, Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists since October 2023.
Our esteemed Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens proceedings with another of her great poems.
We follow with the high-road low-down from America’s Mayor, HEIDI LAMPERT, of Waldport, Oregon’s raging no-MAGA battlefield.
We are reminded that while in Alaska, DONALD TRUMP was told by VLADIMIR PUTIN to get rid of mailed-in ballots—& thus democracy---which Trump immediately began to demand.
Lifetime activist DIANE CAMERON celebrates a 10:1 victory over Maryland’s Highway From Hell in a monumental triumph from the hard-core grassroots.
From Long Island the legendary KARL GROSSMAN tells us how safe energy activists defeated up to ten insane atomic reactors, a victory for the ages.
Co-convenor MYLA RESON reminds us that NY politician Andrew Cuomo has direct investments in Nano-Nuclear’s latest multi-million-dollar doomed-to-fail scam operation.
From engineer STEVE CARUSO we get a warning that the Russians control at least 25% of the world’s uranium resources, right up Trump’s radioactive alley.
From the great VINNIE DE STEFANO we get the latest down-under news from the freed (but not pardoned) and still very active Julian Assange.
There are few things more important than our homes. Alongside providing our shelter, homes are where we make memories with friends and family — where bonds are formed and strengthened.
Unfortunately, the right to a home in America is under threat. Rents have skyrocketed, homelessness is rising, and home ownership is increasingly unattainable for most Americans.
There are multiple causes, but one culprit stands out: classic Wall Street greed. Massive private equity corporations and hedge funds are buying up homes by the thousands — houses, apartment buildings, and mobile home parks alike — and then jacking up rents.
[VILLA PARK, ILLINOIS] – “No one locks their doors in Villa Park,” says village board President Kevin Patrick.
This town of 22,000 could be the set for Andy of Mayberry, a Norman Rockwell painting of America.
Patrick sports a military haircut befitting his years in the Coast Guard and steel blue eyes that reflect military determination, compassion — and fear. Fear of what could happen to his town.
We filmed Patrick while he watched the videos of bodies floating face down in another small town, in Kerr County, Texas, where the death toll from a flood in July has reached 136 and counting.
Patrick was shaken. Because it’s a horror he knows all too well.
Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after Hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He told me about recovering the bloated bodies of pregnant women — or pieces of pregnant women — out of the water. He tried to pull one corpse from the flood, but the “arm slid off like a chicken wing.”
Two leading science and environment groups are going to court to challenge the Trump administration’s use of a secretively convened group of climate skeptics to prepare a now widely disparaged report in its attempt to undo the Endangerment Finding. The longstanding finding provides scientific support for commonsense emission standards to reduce climate pollution and protect people from the more powerful floods, more extreme heat waves, more frequent fires and other deadly hazards made worse by climate change. Millions of Americans are experiencing the clear and present danger of climate change in their lives as well as rising insurance costs and other impacts that are making daily life less safe and less affordable.