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Ellen Vollinger: Trump’s Proposed Rule Would Deny Food Stamps to 3.1 Million Food Insecure Americans; Henry Lowendorf: On 74th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bomb Attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, World Faces Dangerous New Nuclear Arms Race; Robert Pollin: Comprehensive Study on Medicare for All Refutes Criticism by Centrist Democrats & GOP; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Some examples of discriminatory design are obvious—which doesn’t mean the reasons behind them are easy to fix. And then there are other questions around technology and bias—in policing, in housing, in banking—that require deeper questioning. Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of racist heart trackers.

The "Seven Sisters" was Big Oil--the cartel of corporations that came to own almost all the oil in the Middle East. They gained this treasure by hook and by crook, in violation of the law, with help from corrupt monarchs abroad and the U.S. government, armed forces, and CIA. This week, Part 2 takes us from the founding of OPEC in 1960 to the Iraq Wars and the present.. No matter what happens, Big Oil comes out ahead. Adapted from a video documentary. Part 2 of a 2-part series originally released in May-June 2013.

In April 2019, the internationally known pediatrician and anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott gave an interview to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She reviewed and added information to the 2018 book "Fallout" by Fred Pearce. Pearce recently travelled the world to visit the contaminated test sites, bomb making locations, nuclear power accident sites, and launch systems for nuclear weapons that are still on high alert. The concluding chapter of his book deals with the attempts at a cleanup of some of the longest lived and dangerous substances known to man.

Ironically, there were serious attempts by the Zionist lobby to prohibit this very forum from taking place, including an unsuccessful lawsuit, emphasizing the need for this forum. Today we will hear forum organizer Sut Jhally, distinguished activist Angela Davis, moderator Vijay Prashad, and Nation columnist Dave Zirin. After all this, we read Nada Elia's comments on the heartbreak of learning that freshly elected Congress member Ayanna Pressley has now revealed herself as "progressive except Palestine" by voting with AIPAC to condemn BDS, flimsily defending her vote. [Our own Rep. Katherine Clark did the same.]

The issue of urban pests like rats in Baltimore has been in the news lately due to racist tweets sent by US President Donald Trump about the city being “rat and rodent infested.” Unlike Trump, U. Wisconsin Associate Professor Dawn Biehler actually knows what she’s talking about when it comes to the root causes of rodent infestations in cities like Baltimore. Biehler, who is also the author of the 2013 book "Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats," joins us on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast to discuss how rat infestations in cities are actually an environmental justice issue and how they can be dealt with in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Elder writes for World BEYOND War and Civilian Exposure, an organization that tracks how the U.S. military poisons people around the world. Pat’s focus is on documenting contamination caused by the U.S. military’s use in routine fire-fighting drills of deadly, persistent, cancer-causing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (also known as PFAS).

In research published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the authors reported that 10% of wells account for more than three quarters of gas leaked into the atmosphere as a byproduct of extraction. That has the equivalent greenhouse gas effect of adding 500,000 cars, or about 2% of the U.S. auto market, to the road. This finding may have a silver lining for mitigating impacts on the environment, Zondlo said, because fixing a relatively small number of these “superemitting” wells could lead to a major reduction in emissions. He cautioned that identifying the leakiest wells is not always easy ...