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[ad_1] The Trump administration’s PFAS plan includes $1 billion for underserved communities but risks regulatory delays and weakened safeguards. Critics warn the effort to rescind Biden-era drinking water limits could prolong millions of Americans’ exposure to toxic forever chemicals. Health Secretary Kennedy frames PFAS as a driver of chronic disease, yet environmental groups call the approach a distraction. The initiative preserves strict standards for PFOA and PFOS but extends compliance deadlines for smaller municipalities. More than 200 million Americans face PFAS-contaminated water as the new strategy faces backlash over legal defensibility versus health protections. The Trump administration’s latest push to…

[ad_1] Photo by Brett Jordan Donald Trump’s second presidential term is faltering.  His efforts in support of Israel’s war with Iran are floundering; his immigrant-deportation plan has turned into a nightmare; his tariffs were ruled unconstitutional; and his economic agenda is failing as inflation rises.  In the face of this deepening crisis, Trump is playing the race card. In a speech welcoming the UK’s King Charles on April 29th, Trump declared, “The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in…

[ad_1] Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide. Currently, much of the international debate centers on a single official: Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov. The former United Nations Special Coordinator has been designated by the United States as the Executive Director of the Trump administration’s…

[ad_1] The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech. London police making an arrest during a demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action, Sept. 6, 2025. (Alisdaire Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) By Stephen PragerCommon Dreams In a decision that Amnesty International described as “completely disproportionate,” four demonstrators with the outlawed group Palestine Action were sentenced as terrorists in the U.K. on Friday after being convicted for causing damage at an Israeli weapons factory in 2024 to protest the genocide in Gaza. Supporters of the so-called…

[ad_1] It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing a U.S. war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s NewsletterListen to Tim Foley read this article. The U.K. has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to years in prison on terrorism charges, and the U.S. is working to deport a prominent foreign policy analyst for criticizing the war in Iran. Four members of the group Palestine Action were sentenced to a combined total of 25 years in prison on Friday for breaking into a U.K. weapons factory owned…

[ad_1] Painted Plaster Ornament, Çatalhöyük, 6000 B.С. This mural painting is believed to depict Mount Hasan, the volcanic hill rising behind the town of Çatalhöyük and may be considered the world’s first city plan. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Photo: Dosseman. CC BY-SA 4.0. The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as part of my Arkeopolitics initiative, was met with reservations by a group of students from the Middle East Technical University’s faculty of architecture. They questioned how the map—exhibited in the Çatalhöyük section of…

[ad_1] The UC Davis Medical Center. Photograph Source: Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0 In Sacramento, more than 150 University of Californian [UC]  residents and fellows gathered for the first of 17 statewide rallies, dubbed “unity breaks,” at UC Davis Medical on June 2. The medical professionals there, members of the Committee of Interns and Residents-Service Employees International Union, launched a wave of similar union labor actions at UCLA and UC San Diego on June 10.  CIR-SEIU represents 1,007 residents and fellows at UCSD and 1,500 at UCLA. UC San Francisco’s unity break occurs on June 11, with 200-300…

[ad_1] A hearty cheer could be heard from patriotic citizens longing to restore American greatness when Justice Department lawyers argued last week that the administration could, if need be, “bulldoze” the Statue of Liberty. The argument was made in court proceedings to determine the future of President Donald Trump’s big, beautiful ballroom. Nobody actually wants the Statue of Liberty destroyed at this time, of course, though that could change. The New York Harbor colossus has long been a beacon to the world’s tired, poor, huddled masses blah-blah-blah, but this might not be the best time to encourage even more “wretched…

[ad_1] Richard Gowers (front right) with Jakub Hrůša, conductor, and brass players of the Berlin Philharmonic. Photo: David Yearsley. For centuries, the King of Instruments ruled by Divine Right. He had come from humble origins, midwifed into the world by an Alexandrian engineer by the name of Ctesibius two centuries before the birth of the King of Kings (aka Jesus Christ). This hydraulis—so called because water pressure was used to stabilize the wind generated by a cylindrical pump—was a modestly sized but ingeniously appointed portable mechanism. Soon, the boy (the organ, not Jesus) had been adopted all around the Mediterranean…

[ad_1] If police in the UK are told they must believe any racial minority who claims to have been racially abused, what are they supposed to do when they come across an incident where claims of racism are made? Obviously they will be inclined to see the person claiming racial abuse as the “victim,” and the accused as the “criminal.” How can they do otherwise? This is what happened when the police arrived on the scene of the stabbing murder of the white student Henry Nowak by Vickrum Singh Digwa, a 23-year-old British Sikh in Southampton in December 2025. Digwa…