Plastic pollution in space

Health, Science, World July 26, 2025

The Rising Cost of Orbit: Pollution, Power, and the Commercial Space Race

In a triumph of commercial spectacle over ecological wisdom, the upper atmosphere has become the latest frontier of human waste. Once a realm of stars, silence, and reverence, low Earth orbit is now an expanding scrapyard for satellites, rocket debris, and metals burned into the sky—all celebrated as progress by billionaires and bureaucrats whose reverence lies not in wonder, but in Wall Street portfolios and Pentagon budgets.

Hillary Clinton sitting in a toilet

Health, U.S., World July 26, 2025

Prescription for Power: How the DNC Hid Its Ruling-Class Patient from Public View

In a political theatre as elaborate as any corporate boardroom melodrama, a recently declassified intelligence report has exposed what keen-eyed critics had long suspected: the Democratic National Committee, that stalwart PR arm of America’s professional ruling class, was fully aware that their 2016 nominee—Hillary Rodham Clinton—was not simply under the weather, but psychophysiologically unraveling.

Starry night with hills in the distance

U.S. July 25, 2025

American Hunger Games: Gaza Starves While Washington Eats the Script

In a stunning display of moral indigestion, U.S. officials abruptly pulled out of Gaza ceasefire negotiations this week, leaving a smoldering crater where diplomacy briefly flickered. The official justification—delivered with the slick, slippery conviction of someone who’s never missed a catered lunch—was that “Hamas doesn’t want peace,” a phrase that has become a kind of bureaucratic yoga mantra: empty, flexible, and convenient for ignoring the sounds of dying children.