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 read more

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 read more

Is Donald Trump a strong leader? By what measure can his second term so far be deemed a success? Then there is the issue of America First. Trump hasn’t stopped foreign wars; he actually continues to fund them. And what about the Epstein files? Where is the transparency?

CrossTalking with David Swanson, Misty Winston, and Bryce Greene.

God told me he has a message for you. It is this.

The peoples of the Earth, led by the United States, are concentrating wealth in the hands of a small percentage of the people. You may ignore this more than you deny it, but even if you deny it, as time passes, you go on having less and less of the wealth — and suffering as a result. You do not deny or ignore that result. Consequently, you’ll likely want to find something or someone to blame other than those hoarding all the money.

The read more

A year and three-quarters since the escalated genocidal assault on Gaza was launched, a year and a half since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its genocidal actions, eight months since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant read more