GUEST: David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect

[Frederick Nagel]

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect and author of "Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power," talks about how to overcome the sEpstein class of billionaire grifters.
https://peaceandplanetnews.org/author/daviddayen/

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Fred
Activist Radio

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Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine. News that the people in charge, the corporations and your government want to keep from the public eye.

Common Dreams:
"WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Food Safety analyzed the level of risk the EPA permitted for both currently approved and legacy pesticide active ingredients. The analysis found that pesticides have been allowed on the market with a cancer risk as high as one in every 100 people exposed, a far greater level than the EPA’s benchmark of a one in a million chance of developing cancer. Over the last 40 years, the EPA has approved 200 active ingredients that are 'likely' or 'possible' carcinogens.

The Center for Biological Diversity analysis examined pesticide product labels for all currently approved pesticide products. The EPA has instituted cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 pesticide labels (1.4%) containing an active ingredient that the agency has designated a 'likely' human carcinogen. And the agency has instituted cancer warnings on just 242 of the 22,147 pesticide labels (1.1%) that contain an ingredient the agency has designated as a 'possible' human carcinogen."
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-analyses-epa-consistently-fails-to-warn-public-of-pesticide-cancer-risks

-->The NYT doesn't like to upset the chemical companies. I am sure the newspaper will report on this EPA failure at some time. But why not today or this week?

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Common Dreams:
"Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces on Friday were caught on camera assaulting and detaining a crew of CNN journalists while they were reporting from the occupied West Bank.

A video of the incident posted on social media by CNN Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond shows the CNN crew walking near the Palestinian village of Tayasir, which in recent days has come under assault from Israeli settlers who established an illegal outpost in the area.

The crew are then accosted by armed members of the IDF, who order them to sit down. After the crew complies with their commands, the soldiers come to seize the journalists’ cameras and phones that are being used to record the incident.

A soldier then puts CNN photojournalist Cyril Theophilos in a chokehold and forces him to the ground. Writing about the assault later, Theophilos said that the soldier 'pushed and strangled me,' adding that this kind of violence 'is just a symptom of the IDF’s actions in the West Bank.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-assaults-cnn-crew

-->The NYT is still filtering out stories like this. Ethnic cleansing is happening in the West Bank, but where is our newspaper of record?

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Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group:
"Nicaragua ranks among the top 25 countries worldwide with roughly 70–80% of its power now generated from renewable sources. The first thing you notice when you drive over the border from Costa Rica are the towering turbines spinning steadily against the Pacific horizon, their blades cutting through the strong coastal winds in the Rivas region.

These iconic structures, part of the Amayo wind farm—one of Nicaragua’s pioneering renewable projects—are a striking welcome sign to a country that has undergone a remarkable transformation in its energy landscape.

Nicaragua, long reliant on imported fossil fuels for electricity, has aggressively shifted toward renewables over the past two decades. In the early 2000s, the nation depended heavily on oil-fired generation, but strategic policies, private investments, and abundant natural resources have driven a rapid increase in clean energy supply.
By 2025, the country had achieved impressive milestones, with renewable sources consistently powering a majority—and often exceeding 70-80%—of its electricity grid in recent years."
https://nscag.org.uk/nicaragua-a-top-25-country-for-renewable-energy-with-70-80-green-power/

-->What are the chances that the NYT will cover this story? Our national media follows suit. Nothing good about Nicaragua will ever be publicized in the empire's newspaper.