Near the end of his life Lenin gave a speech that referred to the USSR as a transitional society. He explained that socialists had taken state power and could thereby take the post-revolutionary economy—which he ...
Will Americans Buy It Again? (Common Dreams) Joe Scarborough, on his morning TV show, had a roundtable with George Will and David Frum in which these three old conservative war horses discussed the possibility of ...
“It’s not normal for a civilization to be dominated by plutocrats and secretive government agencies and to only get offered the choice between two authoritarian corporate warmongers in a pretend election to a position of ...
The national security state is on the verge of a radical transformation. From DHS to the military, the pressure is mounting on all sides to revamp federal law enforcement hierarchies, shift information pipelines, and reimage ...
If Trump wins another term, the fascism we’re seeing in America today will pale in comparison to the fascism we’ll see tomorrow. The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow ...
(Peace Data) On July 22, 2020, Twitter executives announced that the social media platform would suspend 7,000 accounts pushing the QAnon (Q) conspiracy. A spokesperson for the company stated that the move by the platform comes ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program ...
Revenge is as sweet to Trump as a race war. What could happen to America if Trump were to further, severely crash the U.S. economy the day after Joe Biden is announced as the winner ...
“The influence that Russia, China or Iran could exert over public opinion in the United States is a tiny fraction of that which is exerted by the unaccountable US billionaire media every single day” (Caitlin ...
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass ...
Some countries have confirmed that they are entering a recession, a condition when a country’s growth is negative in two successive quarters. COVID-19 has severely impacted global healthcare and the economy. The pandemic has hit ...
The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature. When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios national political correspondent Jonathan ...
“Everywhere you look, the common thread across all plots and subplots of the story of 2020 is revelation. The movement from the unseen to the seen, from the unconscious to the conscious.” (Caitlin Johnstone) 2020 ...
Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great alarm—that ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to ...
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed us to conduct an experiment on how government assistance is good for people and the economy. When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans ...
Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the U.S. withdrawal ...
“Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what’s going on in the world because if the public understood what’s going on in the world, they would rise up and use their strength of numbers to ...
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. (Common Dreams) On Sept. 11, 1973, I was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. That morning, one of my roommates, a Chilean ...
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when masses of people rise up against it. That happened, for example, ...
The pandemic provides an opportunity to choose not to return to capitalism and its failures. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, the number of coronavirus cases being reported worldwide remains significant. For example, ...
What if we ignored corporations and their billionaire CEOs and owners altogether, gave them nothing, and instead directed all our efforts to providing unemployment and other benefits to individual human beings? (Common Dreams) It should ...
On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know what wasn’t in the best ...
This history of Democratic obstruction and vacillation to corporate interests and the greed of insurance companies must come to an end. The need for Medicare for All has never been more clear than it is ...
In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health. Public health advocates were winning. City after city was innovating ways to ...
Yoga teachers who work with marginalized communities say the practice is a key way to navigating stress, trauma and disruption. Like many industries, the yoga industry is facing some major upheavals due to COVID-19, with ...
Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him. President Donald Trump’s recent reelection campaign advertisement is straight out of the plot of a horror movie. Just days after he deployed ...
“Free” and “unregulated” markets simply do not define capitalism, and are not marked by anything like “liberty.” Capitalism is not, as its defenders like to claim, defined by “free” or “private” enterprises. Likewise, “free” or ...
“Actions of this kind threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends.” Space, once reserved for communication ...
“Reparations have been paid out to several groups in the United States in the past so it’s not something that’s unheard of and it’s definitely not something that’s a radical idea.” Many Americans are dismissive ...
The state’s Republican leadership did nothing to prevent this democratic disaster from happening, even though it had happened before, just two years ago. (Common Dreams) As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a ...
A study conducted by MintPress’ Alan Macleod revealed that both MSNBC and Fox News intentionally slanted their coverage to highlight Epstein’s links to either Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The ...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us. Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying ...
Anyone entertaining serious hopes for significant reordering of the American economy, of our race relations, of energy production and transportation, eventually realizes that all of this will require a simultaneous demilitarization of both our economy ...
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 ...
The fact that climate plans from the House Democrats and the “unity task forces” set up by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are better than anything we’ve seen in over a decade does not make ...
Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
Lawmakers are outraged over a recent story alleging that Vladimir Putin may be paying off Taliban soldiers to kill U.S. troops. But why are those troops still in Afghanistan? The New York Times in late ...
The biggest banks, it turns out, are every bit as complicit in the climate crisis as they were in the slave trade. (Common Dreams) In case you missed their tweets and statements, Wall Street wants ...
A cornerstone of orthodox economics is the idea that capitalists’ decisions about investing and producing are inherently “efficient.” This means that capitalists select among all alternative courses of action those whose costs are minimal and ...
No matter how much support a cause has when gearing up, it has little hope of accomplishing long-term goals if its supporters are divided. Since the 1960s, how many movements have excitedly exploded into existence, ...
On January 9, 2020, Ambassador Karen Pierce—the United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations—spoke at a meeting on the UN Charter. “Nobody could accuse the founding members of a lack of ambition when they drafted the ...
The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change. (Common Dreams) The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would ...
The Trump administration has turned sharply toward economic nationalism. It attacks and undermines the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the UN. Trump and other top officials explicitly insult many world leaders. He imposes high tariffs. ...
They don’t care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money. The bizarre “conservative” idea of “freedom” has struck again. Margaret Sullivan reported in the Washington Post on a new study that ...
Taking “movement moments” to change, from the Red Summer to Black Lives Matter. It is said that Mark Twain once quipped that “history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” These days one cannot escape ...
Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse. For decades, the public health officials like those at the World Health Organization warned that overcrowding exacerbates the risks of pandemics. Hygiene, social distancing ...
“Europe will have to take on more responsibility.” On Monday, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S military to withdraw 9,500 out of over 34,000 troops from Germany by September, citing that Berlin had owed payment ...
“Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) All around us, the quarantine is beginning to die. In the United States, the Southern states are slowly abandoning it and many Midwestern states are planning to follow. But it’s not just Republicans. ...
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