By Peter Yeung Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from his small backpack to inspect a clump of deep green moss. Among the greenery, he has spotted an orchid: Dracula morleyi. Blotted in black with a flash of…
Editor’s Note: The neocons’ insane foreign policy has now brought us closer to nuclear war (see Doomsday Clock) than we have been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and IF WE DON’T TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY WE MAKE IT MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN. The neocons will probably continue to run foreign policy under Trump…
Editor’s Note: I don’t know how to weigh the considerable danger of a second Trump presidency against the genocide of infants in Gaza. Genocide can’t be just another issue about which each presidential candidate has a position (“She’s good on infrastructure, the economy and the environment, but bad on genocide, so her positions are…
Excerpt from a recent article on Covid (emphasis mine): “In 2021, UK researchers reported early results from a study comparing brain scans taken before and after the pandemic began. They discovered signs of damage and accelerated aging in the brain, particularly in the region responsible for smell, even in patients who had experienced mostly mild cases of Covid…
The longstanding partnership between California State University, Long Beach and Boeing is a showcase of higher education’s complicity with US-Israeli militarism and the Gaza genocide. Originally published on May 20, 2024 in (and reprinted with the permission of) Mondoweiss. By Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson, Araceli Esparza, Steven Osuna, Dennis López and Azza Basarudin “Over the years, Boeing and its employees have…
