*Warning of More Pandemics to Come, Public Health Experts Urge Collective Examination of What it Means to Live in 'Harmony with Nature'.*

Most terrorists would hesitate before releasing a disease that was likely to kill their own side as well as the enemy. But bats, unknowingly spreading a virus that can affect humans, won't be held back by any sort of conscious consideration.

*Numerous high-ranking Trump administration officials in the U.S. Department of the Interior are connected to right-wing anti-environmental think tanks and legal groups funded by corporate interests and wealthy individuals seeking to privatize public lands.*

A Republican senator's staffer told a constituent with cancer that buying medical coverage is just like buying a shirt — if you can't afford it, tough on you.

That is the way the US medical system operates, and it shows why we need a national medical system that won't charge people for medical treatment.

Transferring a few thousand troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan is easy to do and would be easy to reverse; it is not a step on a path to ending the US interventions there.

In 1905, an exposé convinced the US public to demand better safety standards in meat processing plants. This plus unions give the workers good pay and safe practices. Now, after a 50-year lobbying campaign, the companies have eliminated both.