Most Europeans do not see a tradeoff between economic growth and preserving the environment. Propaganda and happy Green New Deal patter worked.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Iran War: Iran Disses Witkoff and Kushner in Doha but Does Not Get $6 Billion in Frozen Assets; Strait of Hormuz Traffic Sub-Par but Continues on Oman Side as Talks Over Future Management Continue
Today’s Iran war update: Iran can’t even get its Biden-era promise to return $6 billion in frozen asset honored. So what happens now?
Progress in Understanding Early-Onset Cancers?
Cancer has been recognized as an environmental disease since the first description of chimney sweep’s cancer by Percivall Pott in 1775. The primary social determinant of this disease is described well in this article Lancet Oncology (Abstract then unfortunately a paywall), even if the “social determinants of health” are anathema during our MAHA Moment. More […]
Big Money, the Maine Senate Race and US Party Competition: A Tale in Two Pictures
A “follow the money” analysis of the Maine Senate race, as in the Platner challenge, shows that it is indeed an exercise in class warfare.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Peace Power and Trust Engineering
War Power has long served civilization as the primary institution for managing consequential international conflict. But as the destructive costs of modern warfare continue to rise and advances in communications, sensing, verification, and artificial intelligence expand humanity’s capacity to produce calibrated trust, a new possibility, Peace Power, emerges.
These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt
A grass-roots effort to extinguish medical debt shows how destructive and ought-to-be-criminal US debt collection is.
Iran War: Israel Makes Massive Bomb Blast in Southern Lebanon, Threatens Imminent Attack on Iran; Iran Refuses Meeting with US on Strait of Hormuz as Assembly of Experts Statement Assures Already Likely Death of MOU; Strait of Hormuz Transits Increasing as Iran and Oman Not on Same Page
Today’s Iran war news: Israel is aggressively escalating in Lebanon and threatens Iran as its Assembly of Experts hardens the red lines.
Is Ecuador’s US-Born President, Daniel Noboa, the Most Powerful Drug Trafficker in Latin America?
“Noboa and Ecuador today export 70% of the cocaine consumed by the world. Most of it leaves on this criminal’s merchant ships and is packed in his banana facilities.”
Happy Birthday, America. Our Best Tradition Is Taking on the Powerful
A sunny view of egalitarian tendencies in the history of America.
Coffee Break: Texas ICE Protestors Get Decades in Prison and Little Notice from Liberal Media
Nine anti-ICE activists have received decades long sentences after a July 4, 2025 noise protest outside an ICE facility went horribly wrong. The case has received an alarming lack of attention from liberal, and even leftist opponents of the Trump 2.0 regime.
‘We Were Warned,’ Says WHO Chief as More Than 1,300+ Dead Across Europe From Climate-Driven Heat Wave
Eaxaming the Europe air conditioning question as more heat is on the way.
Iran War: Axios Reports US, Iran Agree to Ceasefire Within Ceasefire, Doha Meeting on Strait of Hormuz as Iran Stands Up US on Technical Talks; Ship Transits Fall; Reports of Big US Buildup; Israel Attacks in Lebanon Continue
Today’s Iran war news: As many predicted, the MOU negotiations are coming apart along side a report of a further US buildup in theater.
