The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved new COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, with both companies stating that the vaccines will be available in the coming days ahead…
By François Diaz-Maurin | March 7, 2024 Despite an international treaty banning all nuclear detonations, the issue of nuclear weapons testing is taking center stage once again. Last November, Russia…
By Robert Jay Lifton | August 29, 2024 The candidates in the coming election in the United States have said little, certainly nothing coherently, about nuclear weapons. Yet those weapons…
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For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border…
In the summer of 1949, World War II veterans protested a pair of concerts held by Paul Robeson, a Black singer and civil rights activist who expressed support for communist…