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A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm
Hadas Gold, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: Journalism, as it has existed for centuries, is disappearing in the United States. First, local newspapers are closing by the dozens. Getting local news is becoming harder and harder to obtain. Second, even when a paper still exists, as this article de ... ⌘ Read more_
Next year’s battle royale over tax policy will shape America’s fiscal future
Neil Irwin, Contributing Writer - Axios
_Stephan: How you vote in November, as this article explains, is going to make a big difference as to what your tax rate will be._
_Illustration: Sarah Grillo / Axios_
When Americans go to the polls in November, they will be deciding the playing field for t ... ⌘ Read more
Directed energy weapon replaces million-dollar missiles at 13 cents a shot
David Szondy, - New Atlas / U.K. Government
_Stephan: Drones have changed the nature of war weaponry, and this new British technology is a response to that. It makes the Israeli genocide in Gaza even more obscene. It forces one to ask, was their no other way to conduct Israel's war than killing tens of thousands of women and children?_
US-Backed Camps in Northeast Syria Are Holding 29,000 Children in Detention
Aisha Maniar, Contributing Writer - truthout
_Stephan: The military-industrial complex empowered by thoughtless unconscious American officials in Washington has condemned tens of thousands of individuals, mostly women and children to horrific detentions that gone on year after year because no one in media reports on it and no one in Congress or the Executive branch seems t ... ⌘ Read more_
Majority of US voters support climate litigation against big oil, poll shows
Dharna Noor, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: It appears that Americans are slowly, very slowly, awakening to what the carbon energy industries have done to wreck the earth's matrix of life and destroy the environment. As the article about the first national poll reports, "Asked if fossil fuel companies “should be held legally accountable for their contributions ... ⌘ Read more_
Supreme Court rejects claim that South Carolina’s congressional map was racially gerrymandered
JOSH GERSTEIN and ZACH MONTELLARO, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: Anyone with an IQ higher than the measurement of their waist who is even minimally enlightened about what has been going on in South Carolina knows the redistricting carried out by the MAGAt Republican legislature was racially based. But, of course, the corrupt MAGAt ... ⌘ Read more_
Justice Alito’s Upside-Down Flag Claim Dismantled by Police, Neighbors: Report
CHARISMA MADARANG, Contributing Writer - Rolling Stone
_Stephan: The actual truth about the Alitos' behavior about the flags they flew is beginning to come out. What is clear to me is that Samuel Alito should not be on the Supreme Court, and it is a measure of how dysfunctional our highest court and our Congress have become that nothing is happening to deal with any of ... ⌘ Read more_
The assault on America’s libraries designed to foster ignorance and damage social and individual wellbeing
Stephan A. Schwartz, Columnist - Explore
_Stephan: All my life, beginning when I was five, I have valued and cherished public libraries. I understood even as a young boy how important they were. Libraries were the place you could go to learn about anything that interested you or that could entertain you when you ... ⌘ Read more_
Inside the GOP plan to destroy social mobility in America
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story
_Stephan: Thom Hartmann lays out very well what the leaders of the MAGAt cult are trying to do. You would think voters who support criminal Trump and the MAGAt Republican cult would understand that the leaders of the cult are trying to create an easily manipulated ignorant semi-literate peasantry to serve the autocratic uber-rich authoritarians. You might think that si ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden’s got a plan to protect science from Trump
ERIN SCHUMAKER, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Here is some good news. In preparation for the upcoming election, President Biden is trying to Trump-proof the NIH, the largest medical research entity in the U.S. so that even if Biden loses medical science will not be subject to the same medical nonsense espoused by criminal Trump when he was president._
_Pro-Palestinian protesters chant at University of Chicago police while bei ... ⌘ Read more_
Divided states of America: From Oregon to Louisiana, campaigns for secession are taking place at local and state levels – and some are succeeding
LEWIS PENNOCK, Reporter - Daily Mail (U.K.)
_Stephan: The Great Schism Trend is moving into a new phase. I have reported on this before but, as we move towards the election, it is now gathering momentum. Somewhere from 20 to 30% of the po ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Kitty cat’ storms hitting US heartland are growing threat to home insurance
Jake Bittle, - The Guardian (u.K.)
_Stephan: Another report on the growing insurance crisis in the United States. This crisis is spreading all over the country has climate change becomes an ever larger factor in local weather. As a country, we need a new nationwide insurance structure, but with our present dysfunctional Congress, I don't see how it is going to happen._
... ⌘ Read more
Biden has no plan to touch the Alito controversy, even with a 10-foot pole
ADAM CANCRYN, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: I think Biden is making another mistake; he seems to be trapped in a Washington political structure that no longer exists. We a House that is controlled by a cult, where they even dress like their master, and a Supreme Court with a majority cabal at a level of corruption never before seen. In my opinion, Biden needs to speak ou ... ⌘ Read more_
DeSantis says he’s ‘restoring sanity’ by erasing climate change from Florida laws
Kate Yoder, Staff Writer - Grist
_Stephan: Ron DeSantis has an ego so large that he seems to think he can banish or ignore climate change. Either way he is deliberately and consciously failing to prepare the people of his state for what is coming, and Florida is going to become one of the most severely impacted of all the states_
_Old concrete can be recycled in furn ... ⌘ Read more_
A Hidden Threat
Brady Dennis, Kevin Crowe and John Muyskens, Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: If you live along a coast and are on a septic system I urge you to do research to see what your future sea rise is projected to be. Ihave lived much of my life on properties dependent on septic systems. We live on such a system now. But, before we moved here 16 years ago, I did a lot of research to make sure sea rise was not going to be an issue in the future. For much of the South, however, where millio ... ⌘ Read more_
Amendment killing nationally legal cannabis makes it into House farm bill
SAUL ELBEIN , Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: This is what the MAGAt House Republicans are doing. Rather than passing policies that foster wellbeing, they are creating more chaos in a Congress already barely functional. Marijuana an issue from decades ago is being reintroduced by two MAGAts, Mary Miller, representing the 15th District of Illinois, and Doug LaMalfa, represen ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever
Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley, Staff Writer - RollingStone
_Stephan: The Republicans in Congress are no longer interested in governing. They are no longer a political party, they are a cult. What they are doing is kneeling subserviently before their master because their political advisors have told them if they don't, and criminal Trump says something against them, they ... ⌘ Read more_
Supreme court rules South Carolina doesn’t need to redraw congressional map to consider Black voters
Sam Levine, -
_Stephan: This decision by the christofascists majority on the Supreme Court castrates the Voting Rights Act, promotes anti-Black racism, and legalizes minority White rule in states. I think it should also be noted that Chief Justice Roberts chose to assign Associate Justice Alito to write the decision and the ... ⌘ Read more_
FACT: Democrats restore economies that Republicans wreck
D. Earl Stephens, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Although a large number of Americans don't seem to recognize it, the facts are irrefutable. The economy and individual Americans do better under Democratic governance than under Republican governance. It is true at both the federal level and at the state level._
_Barack Obama ... ⌘ Read more_
Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden
Lauren Aratani , Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This article describing how many Americans are completely out of touch with what is really going on in the U.S. economy. I see this as an illustration of how powerful misinformation on social media, and the endless lies spewed out by the MAGAt cult has become in this country._
_Stephan: They don't like electric vehicles, they are obsessed with guns. They say their faith and Christianity determine their behavior and yet they violate everything Jesus teaches. When I tell you we have become two different countries in a single nation, this article illustrates the difference very clearly. The East side of Oregon as the article des ... ⌘ Read more_
The campaign to gut Washington’s power over corporate America
DECLAN HARTY, JOSH SISCO and JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: The christofascist revolution that is going on in the United States is being financed by corporations and the uber-rich, and they are banking on the Supreme Court to reduce the regulation and oversight of their financial base, as this report describes. The rich always try to do this, so there is nothing particularly surpri ... ⌘ Read more_
Stocks are up 12% this year, but nearly half of Americans think they’re down. What’s going on?**
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_Stephan:_
_Many Americans incorrectly think the stock market is down, inflation is rising and a U.S. recession is underway.
Credit: Patrick Smith / Getty_
A new poll is offering fresh evidence that the U.S. economy’s strong performance isn’t resonating with ... ⌘ Read more
‘Deeply alarming’ report finds almost a third of Congress are ‘election deniers’**
Alex Henderson, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: This is how deranged the Congressional Republicans have become. There have been 63 court cases testing whether there was something awry in the 2020 election, thousands of hours of research tested the idea., nothing confirmed the claim that there was anything amiss in the election. It is all criminal Trump's fabrica ... ⌘ Read more_
A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education
LUONA LIN, - Pew Research Center
_Stephan: AI is becoming an issue in education, yet another example of how it is growing in influence in all aspects our society with almost not coherent thought as to how to integrate it so it is a positive influence instead of a destructive one. There needs to be a major societal-wide discussion about AI, and it is not happenin ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump shares video suggesting his victory will bring ‘unified Reich’**
Patrick Smith, Reporter - NBC News
_Stephan: "Unified Reich." Criminal Trump is so far gone mentally that he has begun to openly employ Hitler's language when he speaks to his followers. This is the latest example but not the only one. And the MAGAt Congress members and voters continue to kneel at his feet rendering their obeisance to their master. This is straight out of what happened i ... ⌘ Read more_
Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change
Fran Silverman, Associate Director of Communications - Yale School of the Environment
_Stephan: Further proof that we live in an interconnected, interdependent matrix of life, and if we are to survive we must protect the matrix. As a country, as a society, fostering wellbeing must become our most important priority._
_Credit: Yale School of t ... ⌘ Read more_
How Much is a Planet Worth?**
BILL MCKIBBEN, - The Crucial Years
_Stephan: Bill McKibben spells out what I said in the previous article and why I said it. Climate change prevention, like our democracy based on the data, hangs by a thread. Except for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren , Katie Porter, and a few others no one in Congress, certainly no Republicans, seem to give a damn about what is happening. As the data in the chart shows other countries seem to get it but in the U.S. as a culture, ... ⌘ Read more_
Medicaid “Unwinding” Disproportionately Affects Disabled People, Advocates Say
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_Stephan:_
_Disabled people are losing benefits with little or no notice, getting bad advice when they call for information, and facing major disruptions in care while they wait for issues to be sorted out._ _Credit: Rich Legg / Getty_
Jacqueline Saa has a genetic condition that leaves he ... ⌘ Read more
Local officials react to Hicksville Community Memorial Hospital’s closure
Marin Murphy, - Channel 15 - WANE (Ohio)
_Stephan: This is one the many stories I see about hospitals closing. Rural hospitals and healthcare systems have been in a growing crisis, and since 2010, over 130 have closed. Yet when was the last time you ever saw this medical crisis discussed on a network news program?_
_Stephan: Louisiana is a poor, poorly educated state scoring at the lowest rank in most social outcome research. It is ruled by a small group of christofascist White supremacist Republicans more interested in preserving their ideology than fostering wellbeing. This is their latest move in the post-Dobbs era to cont ... ⌘ Read more_
‘A Truer Reality Beyond Reality’: Hannah Arendt’s Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root
JOANNA WEISS, Contributing Writer - Politico
_Stephan: We have about a third of the American population who make up MAGAt world, and loneliness and a sense of abandonment producing resentment and hate, as this article describes, is one of the reasons seemingly rational people become so irrational. Take a look also at my podcast, Conscious ... ⌘ Read more_
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study
Reynalda Cordova Vivian Viallon Emma Fontvieille Laia Peruchet-Noray Anna Jansana Karl-Heinz Wagner, World Health Organization -- International Agency for Research on Cancer - The Lancet
_Stephan: A physician reader wrote to say that since SR publishes research ... ⌘ Read more_
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show
Brendan Fischer and Victoria Cadostin, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: We have an active and growing movement of people who want to take over America, end its democracy, and make it a christofascist White supremacy, male-dominant heterosexual-only society. It is not one single unified movement. Rather a collection of groups each promoting ... ⌘ Read more_
Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election
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_Stephan:_
_Microsoft said the video probably came from a group it calls Storm-1516, a collection of disinformation experts who now focus on creating videos they hope might go viral in America. Credit: Nanna Heitmann / The New York Times_
Last month, a video began circulating on social media purporting to tell the ... ⌘ Read more
Far Right Billionaires Are Waging a War to Capture State Courts
Alyssa Bowen and Evan Vorpahl, Staff Writers - truthout
_Stephan: If Biden isn't re-elected and both the Senate and the House do not end up with Democratic majorities this is what is going to happen to destroy a fair judiciary based on law not politics. It all comes down to who votes, how many, and how the vote comes out._
Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of [artificial intell ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.schwartzreport.net/2024/05/18/its-the-end-of-google-search-as-we-know-it/)
Confused about Biden’s Israel weapons policy? Here’s what you should know.
LARA SELIGMAN, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: It is my personal view that the Biden administration is making a major error in its policy about arming Israel. To me, it is very clear Netanyahu and his cronies are committing genocide. This is the best explanation I have found about why Biden is doing what he is doing and what the rationale is. I don't agree with it, but I do u ... ⌘ Read more_
The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot
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_Stephan:_
_‘The trial has introduced us to a world of moral and ethical loathsomeness in which people use and abuse one another routinely. It’s Trump world.’ Credit: Mark Peterson / AFP / Getty_
There is something important about Trump’s criminal trial in New Yo ... ⌘ Read more
Trump seen editing angry speeches before allies gave them outside court: reporter
M.L. Nestel, News Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Think about what this article is telling us, and it is based on first-hand factual observation. We have a party whose Congress members walked away from doing their Congressional duties, so they could go to the trial of a convicted rapist and con man in order to lie as he told them, and attack America's judicial sys ... ⌘ Read more_
Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
Jeremy Schwartz, Contributing Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: Here is another part of what is happening. I see more and more trends like this, and none of them predict a happy unified country of people educated to think rationally on the basis of facts. We need to start talking about this reality that is ... ⌘ Read more_
Extreme heat will put millions more older adults at risk in the future
Aimee Cunningham, Biomedical. Writer - Science News
_Stephan: The human population of earth is getting older. Fewer children are being born. Cared for the aged and aging is going to become a growing issue, and the medical research is clear, as this research article describes. By 2050, because of the greed I described in the preceding report, as many as an additional 246 million ad ... ⌘ Read more_
DeSantis, amid criticism, signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority
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_Stephan:_
_The majority of voters in Florida elected a governor and state legislature that is openly and actively destroying their future. Large parts of Florida are going to disappear under the sea; it has already started. The rest of the state that stays above the sea will still face all kinds of temperature and water ... ⌘ Read more_
Climate change is likely to aggravate brain conditions, study finds
, \\- Medical Press - University College London
_Stephan: As the climate changes and an increasing number of researchers look at the effects it is likely to produce the news that comes out of their work is ever more alarming. Here is the latest I have read about._
_Credit: CC0 Public Domain_
Climate change, and i ... ⌘ Read more
FERC Overhauls Electric Grid to Pave Way for Renewables
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is some way too late, but nonetheless still good news. Finally, the country is beginning to seriously restructure the electrical grid to prepare for the conversions to Renewables._
_Electric power lines are attached to the transmission tower along the power grid in ... ⌘ Read more_
School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling
Russell Contreras, - Axios
_Stephan: This is very sad news for those of us who worked so hard to end school segregation and bad news for the United States. We are going in the wrong direction in so many ways._
Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over th ... ⌘ Read more
School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling
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_Stephan:_
Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over the last three decades, according to two new reports and an Axios review of federal data.Why it matters: As the U.S. marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark ⌘ Read more
4 GOP-led states sue administration over Title IX rules for transgender students
BROOKE MIGDON , Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: The perverse obsession MAGAts have about gender issues is one of their hallmarks. Part of it has to do with keeping women subordinate to men. But part of it, I think, is fear. MAGAt men, particularly White MAGAt men, are unclear about their own masculinity. When I look at media directed to women, especially White ... ⌘ Read more_
Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River
FRED PEARCE , Contributing Writer - Yale Environment 360
_Stephan: Albania is on the verge of making a dreadfully bad decision about its environmental future because of greed stimulated by Jared Kushner and his partners. The Trump family has no ethics and no concern for the wellbeing of the Matrix of Life. As they show us again and again, they care only about profit and power. I increasingly ... ⌘ Read more_
America’s second civil war? It’s already begun
Robert Reich, The Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. - AlterNet
_Stephan: Robert Reich has just published his version of The Great Schism Trend that I have been talking about for the last decade. We are essentially in complete agreement. Now the questions are: Will Americans ... ⌘ Read more_
Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams state ban
Kelly Rissman, Reporter - The Independent (U.K.)
_Stephan: More and more of these horrible stories about women in Red states not getting the healthcare they need keep coming out. I picked this one not only because it proves what the Republicans have done to women's healthcare in the states they control but also because it is from a British paper, and it gives one ... ⌘ Read more_
In DC, a new wave of AI lobbyists gains the upper hand
BRENDAN BORDELON, Tech Lobbying and Influence Reporter - Politico
_Stephan: Here we see once again the corruption of the U.S. Congress, and how this country gets into the terrible situations in which it so frequently finds itself. Instead of developing policies that foster wellbeing, once again Congress is whoring itself out to lobbying money. They are creating policy based not on facts, they are making policy on ... ⌘ Read more_
How rich is too rich?**
Lucas Chancel, - nature
_Stephan: Grotesque wealth inequality has become a major social force shaping the United States and much of the rest of the world. Here is a very good take on this reality._
_In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, residents in unplanned settlements live just blocks away from wealthy suburbs.
Credit: Viviane Moos / Corbis / Getty_
BOOK: Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth* ... ⌘ Read more*
U.S. health care is increasingly like a casino
Caitlin Owens, Senior Policy Reporter - Axios
_Stephan: Here is a recent report on the state of America's Illness Profit System. It isn't good, things that were already bad are getting worse. As the report lays out it is all about the social status of the patient and money. The United States has the worst and most expensive pseudo-healthcare system in the world. And, because the healthcare industry rents through lobbying funding ... ⌘ Read more_
What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow, -
_Stephan: Here is further information on the absolute corruptness of criminal Trump. (And yes, I say criminal Trump given all his convictions for rape, and fraud, what else should he be called.) The carbon industry CEOs who went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss criminal Trump's ass and to whine about how ineffective the $400 million ... ⌘ Read more_
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
ABBY VESOULIS, Reporter - Mother Jones
_Stephan: Yet another report on the decline of healthcare for women in states controlled by Republicans. Tracking this trend is one of the saddest American stories I have ever tracked. So much misery for no reason other than prejudice._
Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, ... ⌘ Read more
North America’s Biggest City is Running Out of Water
Caroline Houck, Senior Editor - Vox
_Stephan: Mexico City, I think, should be seen as an alarm bell warning cities throughout the United States, and the world come to that. Water and how it it handled is going to become a major factor in the wellbeing of communities, and neither Mexico nor the cities in the United States are preparing properly. I urge you to do some research into the community in which you live to see ... ⌘ Read more_
Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world**
Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University - The Conversation
_Stephan: Project 2025. This is what the TCP Republican Party and criminal Trump seek to do to American society, including eliminating true democracy in the country. We stand at a precipice, and a la ... ⌘ Read more_
‘His cult followers are nuts’: Eruption after fact-check confirms Trump rally diaper story
David McAfee, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: If you have watched my latest SR podcast you know why people will violate all the principles they claim to base their morality on when they are told to do so by an authority who does not so much lead them as personify them. But I confess I never thought it would come to this. Trumpers wearing dia ... ⌘ Read more_
Schools are bracing for widespread teacher layoffs. Here’s why
Katie Lobosco, - CNN
_Stephan: We are heading, as this article describes, for a further degradation of America's public education system. Why? Because the Republicans in Congress will not extend funding that began with the Covid pandemic. America is becoming the most poorly educated nation amongst the other developed nations in the world; the least literate, and the least capable in mathematics. Th ... ⌘ Read more_
The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only
EMI NIETFELD, Staff Writer - Slate
_Stephan: This article is the first I have seen that really climbs into the IVF procedure in the United States which, as it describes is very different than in other nations. Why? Because in the U.S. you can gender select, something you cannot do in other nations. And, because we don't have healthcare focused on wellbeing, having an illness profit system, IVF is increasing a profit scheme ... ⌘ Read more_
Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage
DHARNA NOOR, Staff Writer - Mother Jones
_Stephan: As the damage of the carbon industries and their role in creating climate change becomes ever more evident I think many Blue states are going to follow what Vermont is doing. This issue of the responsibility of the carbon industries, I think, is going to become a major political issue strongly influenced by the corruption of Congress ... ⌘ Read more_
Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
Hannah Devlin, Science Correspondent - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: What I have been warning you about AI is now becoming increasingly recognized as this article describes. I think this is going to have a significant impact on our democracy because many people are easily manipulated by influences they see as authoritarian. To understand why take a look at my podcast. What I describe is ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law**
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law**
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, Reporters - CNN
_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali ... ⌘ Read more_
The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy
Chandra Childers , - Economic Policy Institute
_Stephan: Recently I have had several readers write me, often criticizing me, and asking why I say the Red States, particularly the Red States of the South, have such inferior governance, and such poor wellbeing. They tell me they accept the social outcome data I publish frequently. but they don't understand or deny my conclusions. So why do the old Confed ... ⌘ Read more_
Biden draws GOP’s wrath with pause in bombs shipment to Israel
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_Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson Credit: The Hill_
President Biden’s move to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel has drawn the fury of Republicans, further polarizing U.S. efforts to deter Israel from launching a bloody c ... ⌘ Read more
Louisiana GOP Blocks Abortion Exception for Young Survivors of Rape and Incest
Chris Walker , News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: This story about the Republican politicians in Louisiana is disgusting. I don't know how Republicans live with themselves. As this report describes how would you ever get the image of a raped child delivering a baby while holding her Teddy Bear out of your memory? I certainly couldn't. But then most of these anti-choic ... ⌘ Read more_
East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse and How It Will Reshape World Politics
Nicholas Eberstadt, - Foreign Affairs Journal
_Stephan: The world of the next century is going to be very different than it is today. It isn't just climate change, it is also dramatically changing population levels, and vast migrations both internally and across nations. Here is the headline on population from this research paper. "In the decades immediately ahead, Ea ... ⌘ Read more_
Renewable Energy Surpasses 30% of Global Electricity Supply for First Time Ever
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Here is some good news -- not great news, it could be better, but good -- about humanity emerging from the carbon era and addressing the pollution humans have created that is destroying the earth's matrix of life._
 movement is the religious side of christofascism with TCP Republicanism the political side, and this report explains how ... ⌘ Read more_
A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
Adam Mahoney, Contributing Writer - Grist / Capital B
_Stephan: Do you remember the water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Well, it is still going on, and is as racist as ever. There are two takeaways here. One is the racism, America remains a deeply racist country. Two is that the water crisis from old lead piping remains a crisis throughout the older towns and cities all over the country. If you live in such a community I suggest you ... ⌘ Read more_