At the time of this writing, the on and off, then on again negotiations for a bi-partisan compromise on a bill to extend stimulus to our flagging economy are still in process. And, after the latest remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, on October 5th, legislators are forced to …

Herd Immunity is a Double Tragedy in the Making Yesterday we learned that two unnamed White House spokespeople confirmed that achieving “herd immunity” for Covid-19 is part of the President’s plan to control the pandemic. Achieving herd immunity means effectively letting the virus spread unchecked. The head of the World Health Organization, …

World environmentalists seemed encouraged when Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that China will achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2060. But (https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/519073-xi-jinping-as-an-environmentalist-cmon-man) the Chinese state under Xi can hardly be considered a true champion for environmental protections, because its “developing-at-all-costs” philosophy and exponential need …

Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson are leading candidates for the completion of a Covid-19 vaccine likely to be released in the coming months. These companies have published their vaccine trial protocols. This unusually transparent action during a major drug trial deserves praise, close inspection of the protocols raises …

Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/assange-faces-extradition-for-exposing-us-war-crimes/ Three weeks of testimony in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London underscored WikiLeaks’s extraordinary revelation of U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. But the Trump administration is seeking to extradite Assange to the United States to stand trial for charges under the Espionage Act that could …