The Background Xinjiang, a province of northwestern China, accounts for 640,000 square miles, equal to two-thirds the size of continental Europe. It is China’s largest region, but mostly desert, and produces a fifth of the ...
Biden is following in the footsteps of Obama and Trump, who both promised fresh approaches to foreign policy but for the most part delivered more endless war. The Biden presidency is still in its early ...
NATO’s failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls “uncertain times” should therefore be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to ...
(By: James DiEugenio, CovertAction Magazine) When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom. ...
Journalists had a chance to join Assange in his struggle to rebuild journalism. Instead, they fled the battlefield, leaving him as a sacrificial offering to their corporate masters. (Common Dreams) Court hearings in Britain over ...
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a ...
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both ...
The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The “profit incentive,” they learn, makes private capitalism the ...
For nearly a decade now, a collection of former heads of state, high political figures, businessmen, and cultural figures have been working to reform drug policy at the national and international levels. Known as the Global ...
“The education of our children has been repeatedly put at risk by their [The Gates Foundation’s] non-evidence based ‘solutions'” During a press conference Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to reimagine the ...
Raising awareness about the risks of continuing “agribusiness as usual” has become more important than ever. A typical weekend for 26-year-old Juvel Ingal is perhaps atypical for most. On Saturdays, she spends her time at ...
The oil and gas industry is weaker than ever, offering a perfect opportunity for humanity to pull the plug. While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid ...
May Day offers a perfect opportunity to reshape labor relations during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the inequalities baked into the U.S.’s capitalist system—one that deems nurses and grocery workers ...
An alarming 75 percent of new or emerging diseases start in animals. As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States grow and the government scrambles to address the virus’s spread, it’s important to ...
“A consequence of the failure of the austerity politics is that ideas that had been unthinkable just a few months ago—such as nationalization of hospitals and provision of substantial income support to unemployed workers—is on ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
“If they are allowed to extradite him from here, they will, and they will lock him up until he dies, which probably won’t be very long, just for being a journalist and informing the public ...
The Education Department called American universities “multi-billion dollar, multinational enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue.” The US Department of Education launched investigations into Harvard and Yale over ...
“For Salamé, who is from Lebanon, this kind of multidimensional conflict is not unfamiliar; nor is it peculiar to have several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends and thereby make peace impossible.” Ghassan ...
A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS ...
“All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military ...
“The financial industry may have been overshadowed by Big Tech in recent years but remains at the heart of the question of whom the economy works for. You would assume this would merit the attention ...
Was Boris Johnson’s win on Thursday wholly attributable to Britain’s Brexit fiasco or did antisemitism come into play as well? U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a landslide victory over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party on ...
“This is one of the most shocking discoveries I’ve made in decades of radiation surveys.” The troubling discovery was supposed to remain under wraps, until Greenpeace Japan determined on December 4 that it had no ...
Another priest sexual abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church this time implicating officials as high up as Pope Francis. The global sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has devastated the reputation of the Catholic ...
“The Patriot Act extension passed the House with nearly all Democrats voting for it. When Pres. Trump signs it into law, Democrats will be just as responsible for warrantless surveillance as Trump and the GOP. ...
Bloomberg’s entry reflects a growing fear among billionaires that Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary and enact higher taxes if elected president. The New York Times reported on Friday ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
“The judge is sending a loud and clear message: Students have rights under the law and DeVos’ illegal and reckless violation of their rights will not be tolerated.” A federal judge on Thursday held Education ...
Conventional battlefields have been replaced by cyber warfare and the U.S. has already conducted two cyber attacks on Iran in 2019. The U.S. is believed to have launched at least two secretive cyber attacks on ...
In U.S. vs. Sineneng-Smith, the Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law prohibiting speech encouraging illegal immigration for financial gain violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could put far-reaching restrictions on ...
An executive order signed by President Trump to expand Medicare Advantage is being criticized for expanding the scope of Medicare plans contracted out to private companies. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in ...
“This is just one of many cases of the U.S. military wantonly tarnishing large parts of the Somali population with the ‘terrorist’ label.” A new report from Amnesty International finds that three Somalian men killed ...
In the age of standardized tests and common core state standards, today’s teachers must stick strictly to teaching the curriculum, which outside forces sometimes determine. Local school boards and administrators normally design school curriculums, but ...
Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a uranium enrichment program, but can the U.S. embrace a nuclear Saudi Arabia after exiting the Iran Deal? While attending a conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Saudi Arabi’s ...
“His views are dangerously out of the mainstream.” After President Trump officially nominated corporate lawyer Eugene Scalia to serve as secretary of Labor last week, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said his federation of labor unions ...
“These ugly emails reveal the utter contempt that Monsanto has for public health and for consumers, including mothers who only want to protect their kids’ health.” In just-released emails, a Monsanto executive expressed his desire ...
“The scale of new production forecast from the US is staggering, no other country comes even close.” The United States is on track to produce 61 percent of the world’s new fossil fuel production over ...
Multiple Americans who attended an annual Iranian-backed conference critical of U.S.-Isreal policy reported threatening visits from the FBI in recent months. According to three U.S. former government or military officials, the U.S. Federal Bureau of ...
“CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills.” A new study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that average CEO ...
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