By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of a historic agreement in Dubai calling for the first time for countries to transition away from fossil fuel use for powering energy and transportation, the chief cause of climate change due to global warming, the Biden administration just announced a proposal to conserve old-growth…
Agriculture
Rebuilding American Infrastructure With Millions in Grants
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. â There was a time in a previous reality when creating tens of thousands of good paying jobs while rebuilding America would have been big news in newspapers and on television news channels. Not anymore. Social media sensationalism and silly memes and videos have replaced the grocery store checkout…
Biden Administration Helps Expand Access to Rural Health Care Through Investing in America Agenda
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While House Republicans continue to try to fool the MAGA Trump constituency into believing they might have a case for impeaching President Joe Biden, federal workers in the Biden administration (a.k.a. the Deep State) continue to show up for work every day to try to help the American people.…
Biden Administration Announces $188 Million in New Spending to Protect Forests
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration recently announced another $188 million in new spending to protect and preserve private forestland through the U.S. Forest Service, a move that will help prevent the loss of forests that help prevent more severe climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
Biden Administration Invests $2.7 Billion to Improve and Expand Rural Electric Infrastructure
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been much hand wringing and commentary on what’s wrong with America, democracy and why people don’t trust the federal government, which led in part to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. We submit that the reason is pretty obvious and right in front of everyone’s face. Republicans have been running for office for…
Biden Administration Announces $981 Million in Spending for Rural Infrastructure Investments
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back during the height of news covering during the midterm election campaign, mainstream media pundits and commentators often blamed Democrats for ineffective messaging and failing to get the word out on how President Joe Biden’s legislative successes would help suffering people even in rural America, where working class people…
Biden EPA Bans Chemical Pesticide Linked to Psychological Health Disorders in Children
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of children just in the United States have been diagnosed with some form of attention deficit disorder and/or hyperactivity disorder by psychiatrists and psychologists, and are often treated with pharmaceutical medication or behavioral therapy. But what if these problems are not genetic or cultural psychological issues, but…
Foreclosure Moratorium and Mortgage Forbearance Deadline Extended
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
There’s Not Much Time Left to Plan if We’re Going to Survive
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — We don’t have much time. It’s addicting in our newly evolved human condition to stay focused on the fast breaking news of the moment, the sensational clickbait. From day to day, we bounce back and forth from one crisis story to another.…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Joins Republicans in Opposing Trump’s Tariffs and Trade War
Congress Skips Town for Spring Break Without Passing Disaster Relief Aid Package
By Glynn Wilson – As farmers and victims of floods, tornadoes and hurricanes desperately await financial aid from the federal government, members of Congress took off for a two week Spring Break this week without passing a disaster relief package, stymied in a compromise by a threatened presidential veto over more funding to help the…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Urges End to Federal Government Shutdown
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 20 of the Trump federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, held a media conference call with reporters on Thursday to provide an update on what’s going on in Congress and Washington to end the shutdown and other national legislative issues, including the latest on…
Senators Urge President Trump to Deliver on Aid for Farmers Hurt by China’s Tariffs
Staff report… Washington, D.C. – United States Senators are calling on President Donald Trump to make good on his promise to make assistance payments to farmers harmed by his Trade War with China and retaliatory tariffs on soybeans and other crops. In a letter written to the president just obtained by the New American Journal, U.S.…
Alabama People Support the President, but May Be Hardest Hit by Trump’s Twitter Trade War
Home Grown Axis of Evil: Corporate Agribusiness, the Occupation of Iraq and the Dred Scott Decision
By Heather Gray – In 2005, I attended the National Media Reform Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. While there I visited the historic St. Louis courthouse and the huge Gateway Arch by the Mississippi River that symbolizes St. Louis as the gateway to the west. It was here that U.S. corporate agribusiness, the U.S. occupation…