America’s second civil war? It’s already begun
Robert Reich,  The Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.   -  AlterNet

_Stephan: Robert Reich has just published his version of The Great Schism Trend that I have been talking about for the last decade. We are essentially in complete agreement.  Now the questions are: Will Americans … ⌘ Read more

Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams state ban
Kelly Rissman,  Reporter  -  The Independent (U.K.)

_Stephan: More and more of these horrible stories about women in Red states not getting the healthcare they need keep coming out. I picked this one not only because it proves what the Republicans have done to women’s healthcare in the states they control but also because it is from a British paper, and it gives one … ⌘ Read more

In DC, a new wave of AI lobbyists gains the upper hand
BRENDAN BORDELON,  Tech Lobbying and Influence Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: Here we see once again the corruption of the U.S. Congress, and how this country gets into the terrible situations in which it so frequently finds itself. Instead of developing policies that foster wellbeing, once again Congress is whoring itself out to lobbying money. They are creating policy based not on facts, they are making policy on … ⌘ Read more

How rich is too rich?
Lucas Chancel,    -  nature

Stephan: Grotesque wealth inequality has become a major social force shaping the United States and much of the rest of the world. Here is a very good take on this reality.

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_In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, residents in unplanned settlements live just blocks away from wealthy suburbs.

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U.S. health care is increasingly like a casino
Caitlin Owens,  Senior Policy Reporter  -  Axios

_Stephan: Here is a recent report on the state of America’s Illness Profit System. It isn’t good, things that were already bad are getting worse. As the report lays out it is all about the social status of the patient and money. The United States has the worst and most expensive pseudo-healthcare system in the world. And, because the healthcare industry rents through lobbying funding … ⌘ Read more

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow,    -

_Stephan: Here is further information on the absolute corruptness of criminal Trump. (And yes, I say criminal Trump given all his convictions for rape, and fraud, what else should he be called.) The carbon industry CEOs who went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss criminal Trump’s ass and to whine about how ineffective the $400 million … ⌘ Read more

Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
ABBY VESOULIS,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

Stephan: Yet another report on the decline of healthcare for women in states controlled by Republicans. Tracking this trend is one of the saddest American stories I have ever tracked. So much misery for no reason other than prejudice.

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North America’s Biggest City is Running Out of Water
Caroline Houck,  Senior Editor  -  Vox

_Stephan: Mexico City, I think, should be seen as an alarm bell warning cities throughout the United States, and the world come to that. Water and how it it handled is going to become a major factor in the wellbeing of communities, and neither Mexico nor the cities in the United States are preparing properly. I urge you to do some research into the community in which you live to see … ⌘ Read more

Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
Emma Shortis,  Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University  -  The Conversation

_Stephan: Project 2025. This is what the TCP Republican Party and criminal Trump seek to do to American society, including eliminating true democracy in the country. We stand at a precipice, and a la … ⌘ Read more

‘His cult followers are nuts’: Eruption after fact-check confirms Trump rally diaper story
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you have watched my latest SR podcast you know why people will violate all the principles they claim to base their morality on when they are told to do so by an authority who does not so much lead them as personify them. But I confess I never thought it would come to this. Trumpers wearing dia … ⌘ Read more

‘Undisguised corruption’: Critics slam Trump for ‘selling the White House’ to Big Oil
David Badash,    -  AlterNet

Stephan: If you vote for Trump or any of the cretins who serve him in Congress or State legislatures you will be voting for all efforts to end the carbon era to end and preparations for what climate change is doing to stop. In the years to come your children and their children will hate you for destroying their wellbeing.

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Schools are bracing for widespread teacher layoffs. Here’s why
Katie Lobosco,    -  CNN

_Stephan: We are heading, as this article describes, for a further degradation of America’s public education system. Why? Because the Republicans in Congress will not extend funding that began with the Covid pandemic. America is becoming the most poorly educated nation amongst the other developed nations in the world; the least literate, and the least capable in mathematics. Th … ⌘ Read more

The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only
EMI NIETFELD,  Staff Writer  -  Slate

_Stephan: This article is the first I have seen that really climbs into the IVF procedure in the United States which, as it describes is very different than in other nations. Why? Because in the U.S. you can gender select, something you cannot do in other nations. And, because we don’t have healthcare focused on wellbeing, having an illness profit system, IVF is increasing a profit scheme … ⌘ Read more

Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage
DHARNA NOOR,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: As the damage of the carbon industries and their role in creating climate change becomes ever more evident I think many Blue states are going to follow what Vermont is doing. This issue of the responsibility of the carbon industries, I think, is going to become a major political issue strongly influenced by the corruption of Congress … ⌘ Read more

Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception
Hannah Devlin,  Science Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: What I have been warning you about AI is now becoming increasingly recognized as this article describes. I think this is going to have a significant impact on our democracy because many people are easily manipulated by influences they see as authoritarian. To understand why take a look at my podcast. What I describe is … ⌘ Read more

Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali … ⌘ Read more

Biden admin says it’s ‘reasonable to assess’ Israel used American weapons in ways ‘inconsistent’ with international law
Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Biden has changed his position on Israel and its genocide, and I think this is happening because of the large demonstrations at colleges and universities across the country. I believe the Democrats and Biden are beginning to reali … ⌘ Read more

The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy
Chandra Childers ,    -  Economic Policy Institute

_Stephan: Recently I have had several readers write me, often criticizing me, and asking why I say the Red States, particularly the Red States of the South, have such inferior governance, and such poor wellbeing. They tell me they accept the social outcome data I publish frequently. but they don’t understand or deny my conclusions. So why do the old Confed … ⌘ Read more

Biden draws GOP’s wrath with pause in bombs shipment to Israel
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Speaker of the House Republican Mike Johnson Credit: The Hill

President Biden’s move to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel has drawn the fury of Republicans, further polarizing U.S. efforts to deter Israel from launching a bloody c … ⌘ Read more

Louisiana GOP Blocks Abortion Exception for Young Survivors of Rape and Incest
Chris Walker ,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: This story about the Republican politicians in Louisiana is disgusting. I don’t know how Republicans live with themselves. As this report describes how would you ever get the image of a raped child delivering a baby while holding her Teddy Bear out of your memory? I certainly couldn’t. But then most of these anti-choic … ⌘ Read more

East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse and How It Will Reshape World Politics
Nicholas Eberstadt,    -  Foreign Affairs Journal

_Stephan: The world of the next century is going to be very different than it is today. It isn’t just climate change, it is also dramatically changing population levels, and vast migrations both internally and across nations. Here is the headline on population from this research paper. “In the decades immediately ahead, Ea … ⌘ Read more

Renewable Energy Surpasses 30% of Global Electricity Supply for First Time Ever
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

Stephan: Here is some good news – not great news, it could be better, but good – about humanity emerging from the carbon era and addressing the pollution humans have created that is destroying the earth’s matrix of life.

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Desperate for Workers but Dead Set Against Migrant Labor: The West Virginia Dilemma
Paul Kiernan ,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start

_Stephan: West Virginia has never been a well-governed state. The population is poor, poorly educated, and getting more elderly because young people don’t stay in the state. It is the only state to see its population decline.  As this article describes all manner of hourly worker jobs now can not be filled and as a … ⌘ Read more

The 10 Most Obese States in America
Brianna Navarre,  Staff Writer  -  U.S. News

_Stephan: Obesity has become one of the defining characteristics of the American population. It is one of the main ways Europeans and Asians identify American tourists on sight. It is also, as this report describes, costing us almost $200 billion dollars in health costs because it is the source of a whole spectrum of health problems. It is also, although nobody talks about this, one of the defines of the Grea … ⌘ Read more

How Republicans keep U.S. guns and ammo flowing to Latin American drug cartels
Max Taves,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / DC Report

_Stephan: American guns are the murder weapons of choice throughout Central and South America. How is this possible? Because the Republicans in Congress have been rented like prostitutes by the corporations that make the murder weapons, and no law constraining gun manufacture or sales can get passed. The result is not o … ⌘ Read more

Poll: States With Strict Abortion Bans Are Driving Young Workers Away
Chris Walker,  News Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: I told you this would happen, and it is. We are seeing the population of the United States sort itself in accordance with the Great Schism Trend. Conservatives in significant numbers are moving to Red States so they can be around people who agree with their sense of resentment, victimization, racism, and views on abortion, education, and … ⌘ Read more

The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It
Jak Shafer,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is an excellent article on the change in journalism. It is a major trend changing our culture as it withers, and not in a good way. Journalism is being replaced by the weaponization of lies on social media. The result is a population of ill-informed people who have lost contact with the truth, and who no longer understand or value democracy. … ⌘ Read more

Aid Groups Warn of “Bloodbath” After Israeli Forces Seize Rafah Crossing
JULIANNE MCSHANE,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I do not in any way excuse or defend the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas. They are war crimes. But I do not think what they have done compares with the genocide of Muslim women and children being carried out by the Israelis. How is it possible that Jewish men, many of whose forebearers were murdered by Hitler’s Na … ⌘ Read more

The Trump campaign contemplates a jail sentence
Shelby Talcott,  Staff Writer  -  Semafor

Stephan: We have never seen a former president who has been convicted as a rapist, financial fraudster, and eventually very possibly committer of treason. Now I think there is an excellent chance we are going to see a former president convicted and sent to prison. What do you think America will do if that happens?

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Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm
Judith Graham,  Staff Writer  -  Kaiser Family Foundation Health News

_Stephan: The inferiority of the American Illness Profit System becomes clearer day-by-day, here is just the latest in an endless sequence of reports showing a factual basis proving its inferiority. Yet nothing happens in Congress to correct any of this because the Congress members are so corrupt, and in the po … ⌘ Read more

How Trumpism has pushed a fringe charismatic theology into the mainstream
Matthew D. Taylor and Paul A. Djupe,  Senior Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies | Director of the Data for Political Research Program at Denison University  -  Religion News Service

_Stephan: The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement is the religious side of christofascism with TCP Republicanism the political side, and this report explains how … ⌘ Read more

A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
Adam Mahoney,  Contributing Writer  -  Grist / Capital B

_Stephan: Do you remember the water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Well, it is still going on, and is as racist as ever. There are two takeaways here. One is the racism, America remains a deeply racist country. Two is that the water crisis from old lead piping remains a crisis throughout the older towns and cities all over the country. If you live in such a community I suggest you … ⌘ Read more

More women are working now than at any time in U.S. history
Emily Peck,    -  Axios

Stephan: This is good news and bad news. Women who want a job are working. But because the United States has such appallingly poor child care as a society that many working women have a very hard time getting child care for their kids.  As a culture we just can’t seem to make fostering wellbeing important.

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North Carolina Map Shows Where State Could Be Underwater From Sea Level Rise
Alia Shoath,  Contributing Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Here is the latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concerning what is likely to happen to North Carolina as climate change continues. It is going to produce massive change in the state, displace large numbers of people, and cause enormous negative economic impacts. This is going to be replica … ⌘ Read more

‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines
MIKE SORAGHAN,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Another report on the corruption and scams of the carbon industries which always place profit above the wellbeing of the people and communities impacted by their work. These reports, one after another – SR has been covering them for years – all tell the same story: Greed for profit ends in environmental catastrophes. … ⌘ Read more

Report: Taxing Fossil Fuel Extraction Could Raise Nearly $1 Trillion for Climate Aid
MATTHEW TAYLOR,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I picked this article because I think it raises a very pertinent issue that needs international attention. The carbon industries through corruption of politicians and scams have avoided taking responsibility let alone paying for the damage they are doing to the matrix of life. They should be held responsibl … ⌘ Read more

CPJ condemns Israeli vote to shut down Al-Jazeera; warns of alarming precedent
,    -  Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

_Stephan: Fascism is arising in countries around the world, and Israel, under Netanyahu, has joined the trend. As a country it is also, in my view a nation guilty of crimes against humanity. I am not the only one with this view as polls show. Israel is becoming a pariah nation, and now it is sabotaging journalism, a classi … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s bombardment of dishonesty: Fact-checking 32 of his false claims to Time
Daniel Dale,    -  CNN

_Stephan: Several readers wrote me to ask my views on the Time Magazine cover article about Trump, and I have seen commentators talking about it all day on various television channels. I read the interview, thought it was crap, and then found this CNN fact-check which shows it was just what I thought it was. It is indeed nothing but a sequence of … ⌘ Read more

Tyson Foods Dumped Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Slaughterhouse Pollutants Into U.S. Waterways, Report Finds
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Yet another example of a corporation choosing greed for profit over integrity and fostering wellbeing. What can you do about something like this? The answer is simple, and it can be very effective. Do not ever buy anything produced by the Tyson F … ⌘ Read more

Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars? Maybe for the passengers—but not for everyone else.
Jingwen Hu,   Professor, Michigan Transportation Research Institute, University of Michigan  -  Live Science

Stephan: Here is the best report I have found after considerable research on the safety of EVs. It is clearly an evolving technology, but moving in the right direction which, I think, is good news.

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Mandatory evacuations ordered in Texas after heavy rain and floods
Phil Helsel,  Staff Writer  -  NBC News

_Stephan: This flooding in Texas, I think, should be taken as a warning as to what climate change is doing, and how it is going to get worse and worse. Texas under the Republicans is not preparing properly, but then nor is much of the rest of the country, particularly the Red States. It is a sad business to watch because it is going to cause so much mis … ⌘ Read more

Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, as labor market growth slows
Lauren Kaori Gurley,  Reporter  -  Microsoft Start / The Washington Post

_Stephan: Here is the latest on the labor market and, as the report describes it, “marks the 27th consecutive month that the unemployment rate was below 4 percent. This was last recorded during a low-unemployment period between 1967 and 1970, and again for a longer period between 1951 and 1953.” Sadly, I don’t think Bide … ⌘ Read more

An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges
Tim Stelloh,    -  NBC News

_Stephan: Ai is becoming a factor in a wide range of public sectors with very little public discussion in Congress as to how this should be regulated. In this report, you can already see how AI is becoming a major factor in criminal cases in courts all over the country. As time goes on and the AI technology continues to develop I predict this is going … ⌘ Read more

Congressman Henry Cuellar in court accused of receiving $600,000 in bribes
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Democrat Representative from Texas 28th District Henry Cuellar: ‘Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas.’ Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The US justice department on Friday accused the Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar an … ⌘ Read more

Why Florida banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist
Kenny Torrella,  Staff Writer  -  VOX

Stephan: More corruption of the political process. We are one of the most corrupt developed nations in the world, and this is yet another example of an existing industry trying to block an emerging technology in order to ensure its continuing profits even though it does damage to society’s wellbeing.

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New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn’t
Kate Yoder and Joseph Winters,    -  Grist

_Stephan: Yet further proof that the carbon industry has known for years that their argument that gas was a green replacement for coal was deliberate misinformation. I think a case could be made that the executives of the petroleum industry are criminals working against the wellbeing of humanity in order to protect th … ⌘ Read more

The Rise Of Big Oil’s Zombie Pipelines
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Carbon dioxide pipelines. Once again we are going down a path controlled by misinformation, lobbying, and corruption. We must give up carbon not try it under a new system. This is part of materialism and the denial of the Matrix of Consciousness.

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Credit: Rogelio V. Solis / AP

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U.S. Loses Soft Power Edge in Africa
BENEDICT VIGERS,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The geopolitical status of the United States, as this Gallup survey illustrates, is declining. Our international policies, largely because of the way the Congressional Republicans are controlling funding, and because of the choices being made by the Biden administration are causing a loss of confidence in America. Other world leaders see The Great Schism Trend as it is happening, and the very rea … ⌘ Read more

Abortion Bans Push Some in US to Travel to Mexico for Reproductive Health Care
Alejandra Marquez Guajardo ,  Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.   -  truthout

_Stephan: With abortion essentially illegal in what was the old Confederacy, states now controlled by TCP Republicans, are seeing a dramatic decrease in the quality of female healthcare. Concurrently Mexico is becom … ⌘ Read more

In Rafah I saw new graveyards fill with children. It is unimaginable that worse could be yet to come
James Elder,   UNICEF’s Global Spokesperson  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is my opinion that the Biden administration has committed a grievous error, or more accurately continued an American practice that over the last half-century has resulted in the murder of millions of people, to our great and everlasting shame. To … ⌘ Read more