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Sunday, November 16, 2025
9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.
More Bad Omens for Business Travel, As WEF Axes Tropical Davos and Mobile World Congress Suffers Wave of Cancellations
The cancellation of the World Economic Forum’s Singapore meeting and the gathering exodus of participants from the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona do not bode well for the near-term future of business travel.
How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
Facts and figures on how blind US support of Israel puts Palestinians’ blood on our hands.
Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2021
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New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.
Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.
No Matter How Powerful Israel’s Military Becomes, It Still Can’t Win
Israel’s conflict with Palestine is a constant threat that even the most advanced weaponry can’t tamp down.
Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly
Costco is not nice.
New Adventures in Gardening: Urban Composting
The next step in my adventures in gardening – composting – to feed my plants and reduce the waste I dump into NYC’s collection system.
Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis
As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.
