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Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time.
The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two small atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed between 110,000 and 210,000 people and wounded many others, almost all of them civilians.
It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as
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Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we’ve long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.
The reality is that many geologists and other scientists have seriously doubted that explanation since it was first proposed in 1980, and an intense debate has raged ever since, with many arguing that such an impact, or even a large number of such impacts, probably played at most a bit
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Honestly, don’t expect this to end well. As TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, author of the classic book on an imperial planet To
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Honestly, I just never imagined it would actually hit a trillion — yes, a trillion! — dollars. I’m thinking, of course, about what’s still called the “defense” budget. It’s now
By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, July 26, 2025
Polluted with dangerous, human-made chemicals.
So writes Mariah Blake in the preface to her important book, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. The United States is the place where she writes that every child is born pre-polluted, but I think merely because she’s writing about the United States, not because it isn’t also true of everywhere else on Earth. In fact, Blake quotes Rachel Carson as having
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In its Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration is proudly cutting funds for “woke programs” ranging from the U.S. Program for International Development to the Environmental Protection