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Mask Mandate on Public Transportation
The Biden administration announced it will appeal the ruling that called the federal mask mandate on public transportation unlawful.
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Earth Day: Military Degradation of the Environment
Pat Elder, founder of MilitaryPoisons.org, said that on Earth Day, we should consider the U.S. military’s contribution to environmental and human destruction: “Let’s consider what causes cancers, immeasurable suffering, and early deaths for millions. And then we can talk about per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and how the military has known these are killer chemicals since the 1970’s but continued to use them in firefighting foams. We can examine how concentrations of these chemicals in the single parts per trillion in the food we eat and the water we drink can send us to an early grave and rearrange the DNA…
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Will Congress Stop the Worst Humanitarian Crisis, the Saudi Attack on Yemen?
A just-published piece in Forbes, “Ti…
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Pentagon Contractors Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
[T]he tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it.’ …
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Future of Covid-19 Vaccine Patent Waivers Is in Doubt
More than a year after the first Covid-19 vaccines went into use, only 15 percent of people in low-income countries have received a single dose of the vaccine, and no agreement has been reached on any proposal for intellectual property waivers for the vaccines. Tahir Amin, the cofounder of an organization attempting to reshape patent law to better serve public health, talks about the failures of multilateralism and the structure of the World Trade Organization.
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U.S. Senate: Prosecute Russia War Crimes, not Ours
MARJORIE COHN, [email protected], @m…
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NATO, Russia and Nuclear Threats
Amid warnings from Russia that they will increase force in the Baltic Sea if Finland and Sweden join NATO, Greg Mello, executive director of the nuclear disarmament and environmental protection advocate Los Alamos Study Group, said: “Let us hope that mature voices in Sweden and Finland can dial back these impulsive responses we are seeing to war propaganda that is filling informational channels right now. As Hannah Arendt remarked, where there is no free press, ‘anything is possible.’ That ‘anything’ now includes the extermination of the human race. Everybody needs to stop, investigate what has really been going on, think,…
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Key Covid Coverage Ends as Federal Funds Run Dry
Last month, uninsured people lost access to free Covid-19 tests and treatments after the end of the Health and Resources Administration’s Covid-19 Uninsured Program. Dr. Adam Gaffney says that “the uninsured will now be deterred from obtaining Covid-19 care or treatment––which could contribute to viral spread, or worsen outcomes by delaying care for these vulnerable individuals.”
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Indoor Air Quality and Covid: A Federal Response Finally Gains Momentum
The White House’s recent emphasis on improving indoor air quality to reduce virus transmission has been praised by scientists, including Linsey Marr and Jose-Luis Jimenez. They argue that at the beginning of the pandemic, major public health agencies like the CDC and WHO failed to communicate that the spread of the virus is significantly driven by airborne transmission.
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Networks Covered the War in Ukraine More than the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
“’Astonishingly, the two peak months of coverage of the [2003] Iraq war each saw less saturated coverage than last month in Ukraine (414 minutes in March of 2003 and 455 minutes in April)…'”
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn