Download the Spanish translation Descargar la traducción al español de este artículoDownload the Portuguese translation Baixar a tradução em português deste artigo In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s ...
“This steep rise in electricity prices is the other side of the story of the so-called market reforms in the electricity sector that have taken place over the last 30 years.” Download the Spanish translation ...
Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On September 15, 2021, the heads of government of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United ...
“Virtues are praiseworthy personal qualities that are beneficial to us and to our fellow human beings. Vices are blameworthy personal qualities that are harmful to us and to our fellow human beings. Among our virtues ...
Regional players have long accused the US of supporting the group with midnight helicopter transport into Afghanistan. (By: Alex Rubinstein, Substack) The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have ...
Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. They are dissatisfied and impatient with how school courses, ...
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ. Births and evolutions ...
Wet markets are perfect breeding grounds for pathogens that can jump from animals to humans. The exact origin of the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which started the COVID-19 pandemic, is still unclear. Early reports suggested that ...
It is a sign of hope that Biden and Blinken are turning to legitimate, multilateral diplomacy in the case of Afghanistan, even if only because, after 20 years of war, they finally see diplomacy as a last ...
Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, joined the likes of Amazon and AstraZeneca to take advantage of the pandemic to become noticeably richer. Murthy, who previously served as surgeon general in the Obama ...
While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get ...
Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package is necessary for a rapid recovery for all, but it’s only a first step toward attaining broader economic security. The new Democratic administration is poised to make its first proud ...
For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around ...
Despite industry rhetoric, hydropower is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a post-pandemic recovery and a renewable energy future. There’s some good news amidst the grim global pandemic: At long last, the world’s ...
In Ecuador’s presidential election held on February 7, 2021, Andrés Arauz won the largest number of votes but could not prevail in the first round against 15 other candidates; he won 32.71 percent of the vote, short ...
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) ...
Capitalism’s “conservative” defenders yet again oppose raising the minimum wage. They fought raising it in the past much as they tried to prevent the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) that first mandated a U.S. minimum ...
(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. ...
Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize ...
Within hours of a move which saw Small Street making money to the detriment of Wall Street, authorities rushed in to shut the system down, with free marketeers in the financial world suddenly demanding overnight. ...
To grasp the sheer magnitude of U.S. economic inequality in recent years, consider its two major stock market indices: the Standard and Poor (S&P) 500 and Nasdaq. Over the last 10 years, the values of ...
(David Swanson) It took a variety of approaches to market the 2003 war on Iraq. For some it was to be a defense against an imagined threat. For others it was false revenge. But for ...
Brian Ferguson’s research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history and our closest ape relatives, suggests war is not part of our evolution. War and all of its brutality ...
The Post has a long and sordid history of relying on think tanks funded by weapons makers and other dark money interests to push for war. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) An alarming report published ...
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted ...
The more victims and critics of capitalism coalesce and thereby strengthen one another, the more that economic system is questioned and challenged. That in turn provokes capitalism’s defenders. They increasingly resort to attaching qualifying adjectives ...
Since the 1970s, U.S. real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of real wages rising every decade, that stagnation changed the lives of the U.S. working class in traumatic ways. Likewise, since the 1970s, ...
“This is what we have been reduced to: A violent mob. A nation on the brink of martial law. A populace under house arrest. A techno-corporate state wielding its power to immobilize huge swaths of ...
“The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat.” The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat. He and his GOP had shown little grasp of ...
NEET is one of the coveted medical entrance examinations held by the National Testing Agency. Qualifying for this exam makes one eligible to get admission to MBBS or BDS courses offered by prestigious medical colleges ...
Trump faces a dilemma in the truest sense of the word. Donald Trump is becoming more fearful and anxious by the day. Above everything else, he desperately wants to save his own skin and avoid ...
No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy. The great majority of enterprises will continue to be owned and operated by a small minority ...
We must vigorously advocate for a team that would put an end to the normalization of war and make diplomatic engagement in the pursuit of international peace and cooperation our number one foreign policy priority. Congratulations ...
In mid-January 2020, 800 people gathered at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy to celebrate “China Day” with a seminar on Chinese-Mexican relations. Mexico’s Minister of Economy Graciela Márquez Colín, who has a PhD in economic history from Harvard ...
The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed fascism. Polarized politics and ideologies alongside long-accumulated social problems and movements ...
Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies are letting America die. The billionaires who make their money from fossil fuels have bought off Trump and Republicans so that they’re denying climate change while a dozen states in ...
Viewing the GOP convention seemed a little like binge-watching the last several years’ parade of none-too-subtle signs of incipient fascism. We saw extreme nationalism, scapegoating immigrants and foreigners in general, white supremacy, “strong (narcissistic)-man” government, ...
(David Swanson) If we were to look beyond words to actions, there would be no doubt that virtually all U.S. politicians have, in effect, taken the Trump/Kissinger view of U.S. troops for as long as ...
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 ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Russia has declassified the video footage of the largest nuclear explosion of all time, the Arctic detonation of the so-called “Tsar Bomba” in 1961. The explosion was 1,500 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
The United States has a long history of meddling in the political affairs of other nations and using shadowy military and espionage techniques as a means of overthrowing governments seen as being a threat to ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Perhaps the most significant of the many weak points in human cognition is our persistent tendency to overlook the absences of things. To notice what’s there but not what isn’t there. We notice ...
The last four years have been deeply traumatizing to millions of Americans as we have watched our nation in the stranglehold of a maniacal, dictatorial and compulsively deceptive president. But it is worth examining the ...
“A wild divergence from our current trajectory is the only hope our species has for survival, so as a member of our species it is your duty to participate in that divergence in any way ...
No other president or presidential candidate than Donald Trump has so openly courted far-right violence. (Common Dreams) The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention featured Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple famous for ...
Woke capitalists are not socialists in disguise, they represent a very real and dangerous side of contemporary capitalism. (Common Dreams) This month Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of the asset management firm BlackRock, was ...
“If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~ Julian Assange “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” ~ P C Hodgell (Caitlin Johnstone) Human life ...
A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more. (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Diana ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) To oppose power is to set yourself on a collision course with despair. You set out, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, charging full speed at the man all set to overthrow the status quo, ...
The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. (Common Dreams) A national political nominating convention, ...
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