In my latest podcast episode, Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer, speaks about some of the unexpected events fueling climate change. As he notes, the fossil fuels powering fleets of tanks, aircrafts, and boats used in wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Ukraine, are all having tremendous, adverse effects on the climate.
Listen to this and more in my latest episode; link in bio. Podcast episodes are also available on all major podcasting apps.
America’s treatment of immigrants is a moral catastrophe. Families fleeing violence and persecution are seized, caged, and pushed out to countries where torture, rape, and political repression are routine, often with only the barest pretense of due process. This is not border “enforcement”; it is deliberate cruelty used as a political weapon. It has already stained America’s name before the world and shredded any claim to moral leadership.
Today’s podcast guest is Evaggelos Vallianatos, a historian, environmental strategist, and writer who has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities. He worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies.
In this episode, we discuss the current political juncture of the climate change discussion in the United States, what countries are doing globally to combat climate change, the societal, health, and human rights impacts of climate change, and what actions everyday people can do to help combat climate change.
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Evaggelos Vallianatos is a historian, environmental strategist, and writer. He has served as a visiting professor on environmental history and environmental regulation and politics at a number of universities, including Humboldt State University, the University of New Orleans, Bard College, American University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Pitzer College, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Vallianatos worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, where he studied US agriculture and pest management practices and policies. His experience led him to write the book Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (2014, co-authored with McKay Jenkins), which highlights how the environmental watchdog agency became a “polluter’s protection agency.”
Vallianatos is the author of hundreds of articles on Greek history and the environment, and six books, including Poison Spring. He has a BA in Zoology and MA in medieval Greek history from the University of Illinois, and received a PhD in European and Greek history from the University of Wisconsin.
Trump and Netanyahu stand as corrosive forces who have disgraced the offices they hold and desecrated the democratic ideals they were sworn to uphold. Each has weaponized fear, division, and deceit to perpetuate his own power—undermining courts, vilifying truth, and poisoning public and international trust.
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Iran is executing people at an alarming rate, increasingly targeting political prisoners and protesters through opaque judicial processes. Most executions are carried out by hanging, often after trials lacking transparency or independent verification. According to international monitors cited by major outlets including ABC News, at least 1,639 people were executed in 2025—the highest number in decades. Human rights groups warn the pace itself is intentional, noting authorities carried out “4–5 executions per day” to instill fear and suppress dissent.
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The killing of journalist Amal Khalil raises urgent questions about the protection of journalists and the freedom of the press. Reports indicate that Israeli forces carried out the strike that killed Amal Khalil in Lebanon, a claim that requires immediate, independent verification. Human Rights Watch has called on Lebanon to join the International Criminal Court by acceding to the Rome Statute, enabling accountability for those responsible. At least nine journalists have been killed this year, including in documented “double-tap” strikes. When journalists are targeted, the truth is buried, but the perpetrator must face justice.
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Hezbollah operative
Growing fissures inside the Republican Party are becoming impossible to ignore, as once fervent Trump allies now denounce his presidency with a ferocity that borders on disbelief. Figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson, who long enabled his demagoguery, now recoil from the very agenda they helped advance, attacking his authoritarian instincts, economic mismanagement, and pervasive corruption. They are joined by other high profile Republicans and former officials—Jeff Flake, Adam Kinzinger, and a growing cadre of so called “YOLO Republicans” in Congress—who openly warn that Trump is an existential threat not only to the party but to American democracy itself. Whether this belated chorus of repudiation will translate into meaningful defections at the ballot box in the coming elections remains uncertain, but its implications for Trump’s political future, and the GOP’s, are profound.
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… and you can watch Tucker pretend he DIDN’T KNOW he was lying. Check out his email on the matter
But democrats are ok
Democrats are the threat
Russia’s war against Ukraine is marked by systematic atrocities that flagrantly violate fundamental human rights and the laws of war. Russian forces have launched indiscriminate and disproportionate strikes on cities and other populated areas, killing thousands of civilians, destroying homes, hospitals, schools, and energy infrastructure in clear disregard for civilian life. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced or forced to flee, often under relentless bombardment that appears aimed at terrorizing the population rather than achieving any legitimate military objective. Most shocking is Russia’s large-scale abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children, many sent deep into Russia or Belarus, stripped of their identity and subjected to political indoctrination—actions the United Nations now recognizes as crimes against humanity. These grave abuses are morally abhorrent and absolutely unacceptable under any circumstances.
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Keep eating up the Jew propaganda
Evilly inhumane 😥
Criminal … plain and simple.
