Both state and federal regulatory agencies failed the people of Flint, Michigan, by declining to take action after discovering the presence of high levels of lead in the community’s water supply. As a result, Susan Hedman, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s top Midwest official, has been forced to resign, with February 1, 2016, marking her […]

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is on the rise in America. While there are plenty of pharmaceutical drugs that medicate children with ADHD, these “medicines” do not treat the underlining cause of the disorder. In recent years, a growing body of evidence has suggested that fluoridated water is responsible for the growth of childhood mental disorders, […]

Despite being considered a “developed nation,” the U.S. often still fails to provide its citizens with the infrastructure necessary to survive, including clean drinking water. The most recent example of this occurred in Flint, Michigan, where state and federal regulators allowed the public drinking water supply to be contaminated with toxic lead, resulting in widespread […]

We live in a world of finite resources that abide by fixed patterns and rules, or what physicists call the laws of nature. Civilizations are not immune to these rules. They are subject to cycles of catastrophe and eucatastrophe; disaster and restoration. The fall of complex human societies remains poorly understood, and current theories fail to consider historical […]

Have you had a “quit success” lately? A new study reveals that e-cigarettes are helping people quit the “real thing” – better known as commercial “cancer sticks.” New research shows that smokers trying to quit are as much as sixty percent more likely to succeed if they use e-cigs and see a specialist (rather than […]

Marijuana has been paraded as the drug that makes you dumb. This caricature is rapidly loosing merit in 21st century. Multiple studies attest that cannabis does not lower IQ and can bolster cognitive performance. In the first study of its kind, scientists investigated the long-term effects of marijuana use in teens, comparing IQ fluctuations in […]

A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. In their periodic ranking of economic freedom, a trio of libertarian thinktanks – the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute and the Swiss Liberales Institut – have dropped the U.S. […]

Healthy food activists rang in the New Year with an exciting victory in the fight for cleaner, healthier food, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially kicked arsenic-based animal drugs to the curb; hopefully for good. As of Dec. 31, 2015, the FDA withdrew approval for all applications of nitarsone (or Histostat), an […]

A massive ongoing gas leak in southern California is being compared to the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A recently declassified US government report found that the Fukushima catastrophe was far worse than had been originally reported, prompting many to wonder how severe the California gas leak really is. Methane, a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than […]

It’s no secret that California is experiencing a major drought. In an effort to prevent further evaporation and keep the water clean, the sunshine state spent millions of dollars on dumping millions of plastic balls – and in turn, the hormone disrupting chemicals in those plastic balls – into California’s water supply. The Los Angeles […]

The U.S. Energy Department has stalled a construction project for a complex waste treatment plant at the radioactive, contaminated Hanford site in Washington state by 17 years. The nuclear bomb waste won’t be processed until 2039.(1) Hanford, Washington has long been recognized as the most contaminated nuclear waste site in the U.S. Approximately 60 percent […]

No matter what the final outcome, one of the most important aspects of the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is that it has drawn public attention to the ongoing federal land grab — part of a scheme that threatens not only the Western states where the feds already own more than 40 percent […]

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe demonstrated that the risks attached to nuclear power far outweigh the benefits. As a result, many Japanese citizens are now in favor of using alternative forms of energy. In an ironic twist of fate, the Japanese government has now decided to subsidize offshore wind power to aid the Fukushima recovery. The […]

After residing in Fairfield, Conn. for more than four decades, General Electric (GE) is closing shop and moving its global headquarters to Boston amid growing frustration over Connecticut’s draconian tax policies. While the move is expected to severely impact the state’s  economy, GE’s decision to jump ship came as no surprise. The decision reportedly was […]

In a move that further cemented Big Ag’s control over our food supply, the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich just recently granted Swiss seed giant Syngenta a patent on seedless chili peppers and their use “as fresh produce, as fresh cut produce, or for processing.” The patent also covers the plants, their cultivation, harvesting […]