Daily News 09/25
Daily News 09/25
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
Who’s the Nuclear Threat?: Nuclear Alert
Video: Chris Hedges: Don Corleone Trump I visited Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City the day before it closed, in October, 2016. . . . . Trump is doing to the country what he did to the Taj Mahal. His administration is operating well beyond its means with a budget of $7.4 trillion for fiscal year 2026, against projected revenue of just $5.6 trillion. Trump’s idiocy has embroiled the United States in an endless and unwinnable war with Iran, which may tank the global economy. He is set to cut health coverage for 15 million people, along with food assistance and other basic needs programs. He has terminated the jobs of thousands of government employees. He has shut down USAID, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center. He gutted Voice of America and vows to close the Department of Education. He withdrew from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement (twice). He continued the suspension of funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which had begun under the Biden administration. He canceled thousands of U.S.-funded international development projects. He erased government datasets and climate-related web pages. He slashed the budgets for renewable energy initiatives while revoking federal carbon and pollution regulations.
Powerful Hurricane Polo drenches Mexico’s coast from offshore as Nolo nears Hawai
ENSO: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions El Niño is expected to persist through March-May 2027, with a possible chance. (55%) of ENSO-neutral in April-June 2027. Page 24. CPC …Read more
The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly.There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030
Trump Keeps Spining the Iran Nuclear Bomb Lie!: Just Before the US Chosed to Bomb Iran: March 2 2026 Last Friday the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense threatening war with Iran. Why? Because it had refused his demands to give up what he claimed was its own atom bomb. The Omani foreign minister explained on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Iranian team had agreed not to accumulate enriched uranium and offered “full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA.” This new concession was a “breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And I think if we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach” to achieve “agreement that Iran will never, ever have a nuclear material that will create a bomb. This is, I think, a big achievement.” Pointing out that this breakthrough “has been missed a lot by the media,” he emphasized that by calling for “zero stockpiling” went far beyond what had been negotiated during President Obama’s administration, because “if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched then there is no way you can actually create a bomb.” — Negotiation to Detonation
In an explosive op-ed in The New Republic, former Judge Michael Luttig, a noted conservative, argues that the “catastrophic end [of U.S. democracy] could well come on January 3, 2027, when Trump and his Republican congressional allies wage the final battle in Trump’s determined war to corrupt America’s democracy and deliver a lasting political victory over the Democrats for his MAGA Republican Party.” Luttig asserts that “House Republicans are now poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3.” He told Katie Couric in an interview posted on Substack that he heard reports from insiders that members of the House are considering not certifying Democratic winners of the midterms. Luttig called it a “congressional coup.” Article I, Section 5, Clause 1 of the Constitution says that “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.” The House of Representatives is the “judge” of its “elections” and “returns.” — Trump’s Final Battle to Sabotage the Midterms
We are sitting around discussing ideas totally beside the point. The important question is not whether the rate of inflation is high or low or can be brought under control but whether our generation will succeed in destroying the world. We are seeing the supply of arms pile up as the Americans and Soviets advance from one missile system to the next. This same threat lies before the next generation. We should realize that the stockpiling of destruction precedes discussion of inflation and unemployment. The arms race is too serious a matter for us to be content to dispute economic theories that float off into the stratosphere.
Stop Pretending This Is A Democracy
Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers
In its push to subordinate women, the American right is embracing raunch
Trump’s Unconscionable United Nations Rant
Iran Launches Surprise Attacks On US Bases As Trump Covers Up Soldier Casualties
The Espionage Act Monster: How Washington Crushes Those Who Expose Its Crimes
Iran’s president hits out at ‘bully’ Trump in UN speech but signals willingness to talk Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran is ready for dialogue and diplomacy ‘but without the language of force’
Report Warns Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño The event “is bringing temperatures climate change is projected to deliver 20 years in the future.”
Climate Breakdown Imperiling Coral Reefs: “Rainforests of the Sea”
Germany De-Industrialised Itself For Ukraine, And Trump’s Oil Donors Profited
Gas Costs 4 Freakin’ Cents In Iran — Literally
Three international bodies warn of risks of rising debt and soaring borrowing in major economies IIF highlights challenges facing US, France, UK and Japan, while OECD and IMF also voice global concerns. Three heavyweight international bodies have issued stark warnings about the risks of rising debt levels and soaring borrowing costs across large economies. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Institute of Finance (IIF), the voice of global banking, on Wednesday highlighted the dangers of soaring interest rates on $365tn (£275tn) in global borrowing. In its quarterly debt monitor, the IIF predicted a “structurally debt-intensive future” as governments and companies scramble to invest in new technologies and bear the costs of ageing societies.“The buildup in global debt is set to accelerate as governments and corporates compete to boost growth and secure their positions in an economy reshaped by structural changes,” it said
The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment. — Shadow Government Statistics
The Ludwiwig Institute, Put US Unemployment Rate Last Month at 24.3%
Since the Trump Adminstration’s Bureau of Labor Statistices publishes less information than previous administrations, Shadow Government Statistics has stopped publishing its alternate publishing it’s alternate unemployment rate. Based upon information from the BLS’s Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization and the fact that labor force participation rate, this month to 61.6%, my guesstimate rate of unemployment is still over 30%!
From Hiroshima to Iran, Today, Depleted Urainium Dust is Floating in the Air That We Breath:
Before 1945, cancer mortality was very rare. Large increases in cancer mortality in the past 100 years begin with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. A Japanese government map of the major causes of death in Japan from 1899 to 2004 shows that cancer mortality increased rapidly after 1945. With the introduction of each new nuclear technology since 1945 — atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, depleted uranium — it is obvious that ionizing radiation is a major cause of cancer globally, and uranium is a major radioactive component of nuclear weapons, including depleted uranium weapons systems introduced to the battlefield in 1991 in Gulf War I. This breast cancer map from Centers for Disease Control data (see below illustration) identifies that within a 100-mile radius of nuclear reactors is where two-thirds of all U.S. breast cancer deaths occurred between 1985 and 1989. The map (see below illustration) of nuclear power plants in the U.S. identifies them as the major cause of breast cancer in the U.S., as well as nuclear weapons labs in New Mexico, Idaho, Washington and California. This is further confirmed by the breast cancer clusters identified in Japan and California, which occurred where it rained the day the Chernobyl radiation cloud passed over and the rain deposited the fission products in the environment. — Leuren Moret
Radiation specialist and whistle-blower Leuren Moret has said that “since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere.” This spewing of depleted uranium into the environment cannot possibly make the United States or anyother part of the world “free.” Rather, it places the entire world in thegrip of a toxic, radioactive force that is wreaking havoc on our beautiful planet. — Depleted uranium: A crime against humanity and the environment
From, The Queen’s Death Star Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle East, shows how depleted uranium spread worldwide after the “Shock & Awe” bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq:
The Sunday Times Online, February 19, 2006, reported on a shocking scientific study authored by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan: “Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK”. The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the “Shock & Awe” bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003. Out of concern for the public, the official British government air monitoring facility, known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), at Aldermaston was established years ago, to measure radioactive emissions from British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities
Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Are ‘Ubiquitous,’ Study Shows Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens taint everyday consumer products, food, drinking water, medicines, building materials and pesticides, scientists reported. The more scientists look for chemicals that can increase breast cancer risk, the more they find. Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens lurk in consumer goods, food, drinking water, pesticides, drugs and building materials, scientists reported in a peer-reviewed study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Exposure to these chemicals is ubiquitous, the authors warn, yet biomonitoring efforts are failing to measure people’s exposures to most chemicals or assess risks from compound exposures. Chemicals found in and derived from fossil fuels accounted for some of the largest production volumes and environmental releases of potential breast carcinogens, said lead author Jennifer Kay, a research scientist at the Silent Spring Institute, which works to reduce toxic threats to women’s health. She called widespread use of petrochemicals, particularly to make plastic, “a huge problem.”