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Republicans warned their self-destructive COVID behavior is ‘killing off their voter base’
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 75% of U.S.-based adults have been at least partially vaccinated for COVID-19. But vaccination rates can vary considerably from one state to another. The Mayo Clinic reports that rates for at le ...[Read more]
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China’s Emissions Are Made in America
But this is based on a fundamental fallacy: that the U.S. bears no responsibility for the millions of tons of landfill fodder produced in Chinese factories and shipped to its seemingly insatiable consumer market. The stark truth is that China’s pollutio ...[Read more]
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There was a method to the madness of the Trump coup memos
By now, it should be abundantly clear that the insurrection of January 6, 2021, was not a spontaneous uprising perpetrated by an angry horde of amped-up Trump supporters. To the contrary, the insurrection was the culmination of an attempted coup designed ...[Read more]
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Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. ...[Read more]
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War in Afghanistan Isn’t Over — It’s Taking the Form of Illegal Drone Strikes
Unfortunately Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is substantially less meaningful when analyzed in light of his administration’s pledge to mount “over-the-horizon” attacks in that country from afar even though we won’t have troop ...[Read more]
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Are the Motives of War Profiteers Driving Us to the Brink of a New Cold War?
The first Cold War made trillions for the war industry. Profiteers know a new Cold War with China would make many more. ...[Read more]
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How the US is facing its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War
"The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the co ...[Read more]
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Trump abruptly deletes message praising ‘highly respected’ Arizona auditors’ after they confirm Biden’s win
Trump issued a statement late Thursday night, after news about the report's conclusions had already broken, that expressed confidence that Friday's press conference would show that he really won Arizona. But on Friday, that message was removed from his si ...[Read more]
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An angry dispute breaks out between Republicans ‘roiling the final Arizona audit report
The angry debate centers on what claims and evidence about the accuracy of the election results from Maricopa County will be included in the much-delayed report. Maricopa is Arizona's most populous jurisdiction and home to Phoenix. Joe Biden defeated Dona ...[Read more]
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How COVID is changing Trump country
Alabama's population is dwindling for the first time in state's history as a result of COVID-19's deadly spread throughout its residents. "Our state literally shrunk in 2020, based on the numbers that we have managed to put together, and actually by quit ...[Read more]
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As Bids to Slash Pentagon Budget Fail, US Military Spending Slammed as ‘Height of Absurdity’
"Americans want to see our leaders invest in solutions to today's most pressing issues—not line the pockets of wealthy arms-makers at the expense of working families," says Win Without War's Erica Fein. ...[Read more]
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