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Medical Academia Faces Continued Censorship Of Discussions On Gaza, Lebanon

August 11, 2026 Ana Vracar, BreakThrough News. , , , , ,
Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, health workers have been among the loudest voices exposing Israel’s attacks on healthcare. Nurses, doctors, and other medics warned relentlessly that the systematic destruction of health and life in Palestine is a blueprint for what could follow if occupation authorities are not stopped. They helped mobilize millions around the world – yet they also faced censorship and attempts to discredit them inside their own professional spaces. Recent experiences by health professionals suggest these are not isolated incidents but part of a coordinated strategy to delegitimize medical expertise when it counters Israel’s claims about attacks on Palestinian, Lebanese, and other patients, medics, and infrastructure.

Dr. Fauci And His Inquisitors

August 8, 2026 Stephen Millies, Struggle -La Lucha. , , , ,
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 29 was a throwback to the days of Joe McCarthy and the witch hunt.     The retired director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was allegedly called before the panel to account for his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. It was really a trap set by committee chair, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The aim was to get the 85-year-old scientist to contradict his earlier testimony and then have him indicted for perjury or obstruction of justice. That’s an old tactic used during the anti-communist hysteria during the late 1940s and 1950s.

Dr Hussam Abu Safia Faces ‘Major Health Deterioration’ In Israeli Custody

August 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
The head of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Doctor Hussam Abu Safia, is experiencing a major deterioration in his health due to severe torture and beatings inflicted by Israeli jailers, the Palestinian Prisoners Information Office informed on 5 August. The Palestinian doctor is currently being held in Israel’s underground Rakevet torture center, located within Nitzan Prison. Abu Safia was targeted during a brutal raid by Israeli officers at the facility on 27 July.  According to the statement, Palestinian prisoners were beaten with batons, shocked with electricity, exposed to tear gas, and shot with rubber bullets.

How States Can Protect Residents From Harmful Pesticides

August 6, 2026 Emma Newton, Inequality.org. , , , ,
For decades, when a pesticide manufacturer’s product made someone sick, families had a path to justice: their day in court. But this summer, the Supreme Court closed that door for millions of Americans harmed by toxic pesticides. In a 7-2 ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell, the Court sided with chemical company Monsanto, ruling that state courts can no longer hold the manufacturer accountable for failing to include a warning label on its products if the federal EPA hasn’t required one — no matter what the science shows or what a jury decides.

Legal Team Of Mumia Abu-Jamal Appeals To The UN For Support

July 29, 2026 Renee Feltz, Truthout. , , , ,
World-renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is 72 years old, suffering multiple health problems, and may die in prison, say legal advocates in a new request they filed today that asks the United Nations to support his release. Abu-Jamal’s legal team decided to appeal to the UN after having exhausted nearly every legal avenue for relief available in the United States. Abu-Jamal was a Black Panther and journalist when he was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and he has always maintained his innocence. His death sentence was overturned in 2001, and in 2011, Pennsylvania resentenced him to life without parole.

We Must Act With The Same Moral Courage As Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiya

July 27, 2026 National Single Payer, Counter Punch. , , , ,
National Single Payer, a national, grassroots organization joined by the principles that health care is a human right, must be free from profit, and will be achieved through national legislation, endorses the appeal issued by Doctors Against Genocide for immediate international action on behalf of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician detained by Israeli Occupation Forces in December 2024 because he refused to abandon his patients under his care. We call on every government, medical association, hospital, university, humanitarian organization, and elected official to demand his immediate release.

Louisiana Weakened Community Air Monitoring As Industry Pushed Back

July 27, 2026 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. , , , , ,
In Louisiana’s petrochemical belt, some of the people most exposed to toxic air have the least information about what they are breathing. A new investigation by the nonprofit newsroom Floodlight, produced in partnership with The Guardian and with contributions from the Louisiana Illuminator, finds that the state’s public air monitors are frequently located miles from major industrial polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals released along the corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as “Cancer Alley,” is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.

How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

July 11, 2026 Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , , ,
On 4 June 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a devastating assessment of the state of the world’s food systems. According to the new estimates, which draw on data up to 2021, unsafe food causes approximately 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths every year. Nearly one in nine people globally falls ill from contaminated food, with the African and Southeast Asian regions together accounting for nearly three-quarters of all foodborne illnesses and 60% of global deaths. The burden falls most heavily on those who have contributed least to the crisis: children.

What America Left Behind In Greenland

July 10, 2026 Pat Elder, Military Poisons. , , ,
President Donald Trump's July 2026 remarks criticizing Denmark's relationship with Greenland provide an unexpected backdrop for this report. Although the President did not specify what he meant by Denmark "not spending money to really help Greenland," his comments invite a broader examination of the responsibilities that accompany the American military presence and strategic interest on the world's largest island. The geopolitical tensions have been extraordinary. Following President Trump's repeated suggestions earlier this year that he might use military force to acquire Greenland, Danish military planners reportedly developed highly classified contingency plans that included destroying key Greenlandic airfields if the United States attempted an invasion, according to the BBC.

Roundup Wins!

June 29, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. , , ,
MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) just got a poke in the eye as the US Supreme Court narrowed avenues for plaintiff cases against the chemical giant Bayer (formerly Monsanto). Ever since March 2015, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a Group 2A “probable human carcinogen” tort cases exploded up to 170,000 claims of complications from Roundup. The US president had already ‘greased the skids’ for the Supremes by declaring glyphosate as a crucial necessity for National Defense by signing an executive order; Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides d/d February 18, 2025.

Kenya Is Not America’s Quarantine Zone

June 27, 2026 Beverley Waithaka, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Western nations have a long history of deciding that African land is available for their use and exploitation for any reason they choose. Donald Trump’s declaration that Kenya would serve as an Ebola virus disease quarantine hub for U.S. citizens in Africa who are exposed to the disease is a reminder that these colonial ideologies still exist. For those in the U.S. watching from afar, this may seem like a foreign policy story with little relevance to their daily lives, but it isn’t. The same entitlement that has directed the Trump administration's decisions domestically has shaped its actions abroad.

Community Mobilizes After Trump Announces $75 Million For Coal Terminal

June 17, 2026 Ken Epstein, People's World. , , , ,
Oakland, California—Community environmental groups are intensifying efforts to organize resistance after President Donald Trump announced last week that the federal government will invest $700 million to boost the coal industry in the U.S., including $75 million to build the long-delayed West Oakland Coal Terminal. In remarks last Thursday at a press conference at the White House, Trump relied on an old law, the Defense Production Act, as the basis for the investment, with the bulk of the money—$425 million—going to support 13 existing coal plants across the country.

Arms Embargo Now! GKN Out Of Garden Grove!

May 31, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , , ,
On Thursday, May 21, a 34,000-gallon storage tank carrying a highly toxic and flammable chemical, methyl methacrylate, overheated at the GKN Aerospace facility in the middle of a predominantly working-class Garden Grove neighborhood. The overheating tank released toxic chemicals into the air, creating a serious risk of explosion and forcing over 50,000 residents to evacuate. GKN Aerospace’s chemical crisis has resulted in evacuations in Garden Grove, Stanton, Westminster, Cypress, and Buena Park, forced dozens of school closures, and disrupted hundreds of businesses.

Climate Change Breeds Disease; Public Health Cuts Help It Spread

May 16, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
Before anyone boarded the MV Hondius, the conditions for an outbreak were already forming across the landscapes where climate disruption, rodents and human activity increasingly collide. Argentina’s health ministry has recorded 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025 — roughly twice as many as the same period the year before. Officials have not yet identified the cause of the surge. Climate science offers a strong candidate. Argentina and neighboring countries endured years of severe drought from 2021 to 2024, including Argentina’s worst dry spell in more than 60 years in 2023, followed by extreme rainfall in 2024.

Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Organize Peoples Tribunal For Justice

May 4, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , ,
In 1945, tens of thousands of occupied Koreans were forced to live in Japan, primarily as impoverished workers. When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70,000 Koreans were impacted. Though they and their succeeding generations have been severely harmed by the exposure to radiation, they still have not received recognition, an apology or compensation for their suffering. A delegation of atomic bomb victims just completed a tour of the United States and testified before the United Nations. Clearing the FOG speaks with Shim Jin-tae, Han Jeongsun and a representative of Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) about their experiences and their struggle for a nuclear-free world. Translation provided by Hyunsook Elizabeth "Echo" Cho.
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