A grim medical reality is unfolding across Middle America, predominantly Iowa’s farmland. In the land of pesticides and industrial agriculture, where policies have made farming dependent on cancer causing chemicals, cancer rates are rising faster than any other place in the nation. While federal regulators and agricultural conglomerates continue to insist that chemical-intensive farming practices…

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock’s license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city’s nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a surveillance network that is essentially impossible to avoid.  The lawsuit was…

Morale in the United States was lower during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Unfortunately, many Americans were not feeling very festive or positive about the US. Two weeks before the US’s anniversary, The Associated Press published a poll that captured the depth of American anxiety about the ruling class and life in general…