President Trump’s February 19, 2026 Executive Order 14387, under the Defense Production Act of 1950, to ensure a stable and adequate supply of U.S.-produced Glyphosate also provides a liability shield for Bayer, a company that deliberately poisons human beings. It is unconscionable no matter the inconvenience in switching to safer, saner farming protocols, such as regenerative farming and crop rotation. There are many new and innovative ways to safely and successfully farm. Congress.gov/crs-product/R43767
Ghostwritten science by former Monsanto-now-Bayer that provided the singular 2000 study relied upon by the industry, policy makers, and farmers to claim the herbicide Glyphosate (Roundup) is safe, has been permanently retracted by scientific journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. Glyphosate has been scientifically proven to cause cancer, born out by the $10 billion in lawsuit settlements since 2018. Most of Europe has now banned its use, as well as the import of any crops grown using Glyphosate.
WashingtonPost.com/climate-environment/2025/12/05/glyphosate-roundup-cancer-bayer-study/
NYTimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/glyphosate-roundup-retracted-study.html
The stated rationale behind the continued poisoning of Americans with Glyphosate is the American food system's disproportionate dependency on the herbicide.
However, 90 percent of all the corn and soybean production in the U.S. is exported, 80 percent of which is used for animal feed and industrial processing. Respectively, the real dependency is not on food production, but on crop yielding profits. In Iowa, 80-plus percent of its corn is grown for ethanol production.
Worse yet is Bayer's monopoly stranglehold on genetically modified (GMO) corn seed forced on American farmers after all its natural immunity to weeds and pests has been eliminated through decades of genetic engineering. These vulnerable seeds are then additionally engineered to be specifically resistant to Glyphosate, alone, while most other weeds and pests are not. This is intentional to capture both the worldwide corn and soybean seed market, along with the only herbicides and pesticides that can protect the plants growth cycles to fruition. Meanwhile, other manufacturer's seeds cannot prevail for anything close to the higher crop yields produced by this monopolistic captured synergy.
As Iowa governor candidate Zach Lane stated at January's GOP gubernatorial primary forum stated: “What's actually going on is we have heavy consolidation in the formation of monopolies within our agriculture sector. We have three companies that now control over 85 percent of seed and input and fertilizer, and they are actively extorting our farmers. This is the real issue if you talk to farmers. Input prices are out of control. No one is holding these people accountable, and we have to start to break these monopolies apart.” RCReader.com/commentary/first-ever-gubernatorial-republican-primary-forum-held-in-scott-county-was-educational-and-substantive
It is too often an impediment to competition because the cost of these farming inputs is much higher. Small operations and family farms are compelled to operate using Glyphosate for obvious reasons that include seed and herbicide/pesticide drift into their own planted acreages.
There is a hard admission by the Trump Administration that without the use of Glyphosate, crop yields would not provide enough profits to sustain many U.S. farmers. But if this narrative is actually true, then it’s an ecological crime against nature to allow such a monopolistic system that benefits one corporation’s owners/shareholders, while recklessly causing harm to human beings (and many unsuspecting critters and vegetation) unfortunate enough to encounter exposure in toxic amounts. Not to mention …
Destroying World's Richest Soil
… a complete affront to Capitalism in a supposed free market economy. And don’t think for a minute this destructive product doesn’t have a shelf life, because it absolutely does since it is simultaneously destroying the richest, most fertile soil in the world. Eventually there won’t be enough soil capable of growing a dandelion, let alone feed the world, Americans and animals included.
What the fish could possibly justify poisoning people in a moral world? Sustained monopoly profits for Bayer? Higher crop yields for greater profits for farmers at large, and consequently much of the economic activity that flows from those efforts? None of these justifications get anywhere close.
And what about the gross dereliction of administrative, judicial, and legislative duty, arguably bordering on criminal intent. These miscreants violate their oaths by codifying Glyphosate contamination of crops that poison consumers (humans and critters). And also by spraying toxic nanoparticles (Aluminum, Strontium among others) into the atmosphere that spread through the air we breathe while slowly falling to Earth to be absorbed into the soil, using a fanciful explanation of geoengineering to reflect the sun away from the Earth to mitigate warming. Except after decades of this spraying, not a degree of warming has been provably mitigated. But soil has been provably permanently compromised.
The 21st-century U.S. government is proving to be an entity that has long abandoned the people’s interests in favor of leadership and bureaucrats' own individual advancement via endless sources of fiat money and the power it wields. This advancement can only be attained via a collusion of bad actors in position to pillage a nation’s treasury. And that degree of pillaging can only occur if the people that fund that nation’s treasury allow it. It really is that simple.
The Declaration of Independence, the foreword to the U.S. Constitution, provides Americans with an express remedy to restore their constitutional republic, our actual form of government versus a pure “democracy,” if it becomes corrupt beyond repair. If there was ever a moment to stop and consider the politics of the day, this is it.
Progressive Democrats should be comforted (perhaps even experiencing some healing from Long Trump Derangement Syndrome?) by President Trump’s stumbling away from his MAGA and MAHA promises straight into the polar opposite arms of Progressive Democrats and their globalist agendas. Neocon Republicans should be equally pleased because the trifecta of U.S. branch powers appear to be back in sync, returning to familiar collusion territory, where allocation of excessive spending (much of which must be borrowed by taxpayers) triggers obscene money-printing-for-pillaging by the usual suspects.
Trump’s reversal in policy direction is evidenced by the following: Trump’s recent Executive Order 14387 shielding makers/users of Glyphosate (and other “forever chemicals”) from being sued for causing cancer and other illnesses/diseases, while green-lighting Glyphosate manufacturing here in the U.S. instead of China (currently responsible for 95 percent of Glyphosate production worldwide). What isn’t said is this on-shoring of carcinogenic Glyphosate production and sale without warning labels alerting consumers to its dangers, will now expose the government to lawsuits for its negligence, causing harm.
Ergo, the Supreme Court is also about to rule in a case on whether to issue Immunity from liability for cancers et al from the use of Glyphosate. The various amicus briefs filed by the Trump and Biden Administrations supporting the immunity attests to the real purpose behind this concurrent adjudication. SupremeCourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=%2Fdocket%2Fdocketfiles%2Fhtml%2Fpublic%2F24-1068.html
Add to this, state legislatures all around the country are writing immunity shields for Glyphosate and forever chemicals into their state codes, including Iowa Senate File 394. Now honestly, whose interests are really being represented with these three branch's alignment? Legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF%20394&ga=91
Also realigning with Progressive Democrats and Neocon Republicans is the Administration’s robust war support and/or initiations, such as Ukraine v Russia, Israel v Palestine, Venezuela, attacks on Iran twice in a matter of months, and the continued droning of Yemen.
Anthropic's AI Dilemma
The above military aggressions appear to justify the Department of War's Bill of Rights violations via an all new hyper-level of AI tech intrusions, revealed with the sudden blacklisting and punishing of the privately-owned AI company Anthropic for refusing to cross its own red lines in using its AI Claude Systems for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
It is important to note that Anthropic’s Claude is already used throughout the Department of War and many other federal government sectors. And as if the COVID-19 debacle never happened, Congress continued financial support with a $3 billion+ appropriation via the Foreign Assistance budget for Bill Gate’s Vaccine Alliance GAVI to continue experimental injections masquerading as vaccines worldwide.
Pentagon wants to use Anthropic’s technology as it sees fit for “all lawful purposes.” In this scenario, the technology referred to is called “Claude.” The Pentagon doesn’t want to accommodate safeguards defined by Anthropic. Anthropic was dropped because it won’t eliminate “safeguards.”
Trump and the Pentagon are threatening to invoke the ame Defense Production Act of 1950 cited above to force removal of Anthropic not only in relevant Department of War (DOW) contracts, but in all government contracts if it refuses to remove its safety guardrails. Congress.gov/crs-product/R43767
In poor form and gamesmanship, the Trump Administration is also threatening a punitive measure, declaring Anthropic a “Supply Chain Risk,” while simultaneously labeling Anthropic’s Claude, a Large Language Model (LLM), essential to national security. WSJ reports Anthropic’s products are the only AI currently used in the U.S. government’s classified systems, such as TargetID, intelligence assessments, and battlefield simulations. WSJ.com/opinion/trumps-road-to-war-with-anthropic-e536f669
An open letter was issued from leading AI lab employees, including Google and OpenAI, supporting Amodei’s decision to not waiver on crossing the company’s redlines. It is interesting to note that XAI is not included in this open letter. NotDivided.org
“AI systems are not nearly reliable enough to make fully autonomous weapons. Technically, it cannot reliably function without human oversight,” asserted Dario Amodei in a CBS interview, March 3, 2026. The “Supply Chain Risk” designation is purely punitive for Amodei's refusing to cave on Anthropic’s redlines of mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. YouTube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU
Currently, AI tech is ahead of the law. In other words, the law doesn’t contemplate all AI’s applications using people’s private data. In the case of mass surveillance, it is legal for the government to collect people’s data, such as social-media posts, driver's-license information, conceal/carry permits, birth certificates, travel data, rallies and protests attendance, voter registration rolls, etc.
Until now, the government could not do anything substantive with this massive accumulation of data. The ability to run it through programmed AI surveillance applications for analysis promises to be a game changer in mass government intrusions and potential criminal violations, defiling constitutionally protected rights, and creating oath breakers out of countless thousands within the pubic sector.
Ending on a Positive Note
I recently heard two nuggets of invaluable wisdom relative to politics.
The first cautions that if criticisms are against a person(s) instead of their policy(s), it is almost always deliberate disinformation as a means of distraction.
The second advises that when evaluating a law(s), a policy(s), a program(s), an expenditure(s), etc., your consideration and discernment of one critical element should decide your support or opposition: “Who does it give power to?”
