Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military “aid?” (DavidSwanson.org) —Did you know that the U.S. government has ...
Hello world! As I sit at my desk gazing at what is fast-becoming an overgrown garden – my daughter thought earlier this April that she would beat her boredom by mowing the grass and instead ...
“Profit-driven capitalism proved extremely inefficient in its response to the virus.” Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.” ...
Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the US government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. (By: John Whitehead, Mintpress News) I have never known any ...
“These things are happening daily — it’s getting a lot more dangerous,” Eddie Song told NBC News after he and his wife were told by a man that Asians caused coronavirus. With the competition out ...
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 ...
“For the past 40-plus years, a group of “conservative” billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities ...
One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due ...
It is a sign of how bad things are when the editorial board of the Financial Times, the world’s leading business newspaper, carries an editorial calling for “radical reforms… reversing the prevailing policy direction of ...
Bill Cosby was always a rapist monster. That much, hindsight and evidence make clear. Still, moored in our “Me Too” moment, it’s easy to forget how profound and influential the man, and the network smash hit, The Cosby ...
As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is ...
The U.S, Italy, and Indonesia have the highest mortality rates from COVID-19, according to Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture. Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture (DKV) released the latest ...
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary ...
In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. (By: John Whitehead, ...
Advocates for homeschooling and other forms of public school privatization want you to believe the pandemic has a silver lining—they’re wrong. In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when ...
As of Sunday night, the United States has 143,055 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 2,513 deaths. At a Sunday night press conference, President Donald Trump announced a long list of social distancing guidelines will be ...
“Some entertainers are seeking to console or at least occupy the attention of those in lockdown by creating new content to stream online.” As America joins other countries in hunkering down to avoid coronavirus, the ...
“Being a good citizen is being a good neighbor—so what do ‘good neighbors’ look like in the time of panic buying, hand sanitizer, and physical avoidance?” As we create “social distance” to protect ourselves and ...
“How can we best help people connect the dots between capitalism, growth, debt, bailouts, war, injustice and fragility? And what alternative narratives can we present for a system focused on better, not bigger?” Let’s be ...
‘Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers. They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down.” The world is fighting a global pandemic, and the United States is set to become one of ...
One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change. Amidst all the terrible news about the spreading coronavirus epidemic, a scintillating fact has emerged that can energize the ...
In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. The ...
“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden swept Super Tuesday III and in doing so has likely ended the Democratic presidential primary. Biden won Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday and has become the undisputed front runner ...
Google’s description of its Coronavirus efforts falls short of the president’s claims. Verily, a Google sister company under the Alphabet Inc. umbrella, is trying to assist Americans who might be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. ...
US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus. (By: Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin, ...
The Supreme Court recently heard what could become a landmark case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The concept of separation between church and state is a key part of the American democratic experiment. The ...
For the first time, there were as many female leads in family films as male leads, according to a new study. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media released these findings regarding films from ...
Trump defended his administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and spoke about the Democratic primary at his first town hall of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump held his first town hall of the 2020 ...
“At a certain point there needs to be a serious and empathetic conversation about Biden’s relatively frequent, confused, irritable inability to complete coherent thoughts. It’s not about a stutter. Watching him speak a mere four ...
While Sen. Bernie Sanders laid claim to the big-delegate prize in California, former Vice President showed with multiple wins in key states that he is now the corporate Democrat’s only hope. “May the best candidate ...
“Doubters may claim that our nation can’t afford Medicare for All, but it’s increasingly likely that we are about to discover just how costly our current system really is.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) The ...
From climate change to healthcare to agricultural science, Trump and his allies have made it clear that they are more than willing to ignore scientific evidence and advice in order to justify cutting funding for ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
The media hysteria over Russian interference in the 2016 election has directly led to the current moment where the topic is often weaponized for purely political purposes, and it leads to more misinformation and confusion ...
John Pilger on the betrayal of Julian Assange by Australia, that country’s service to UK and American empire, and the fate of the free press. (By: John Pilger, Mintpress News) On Saturday, there will be ...
Attendees at the conference discussed the Coronavirus outbreak, Libya, the Iran nuclear deal, and other topics. On February 16, the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 held in the Germany city of Munich wrapped up ...
“Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives. They want to see more rifts and more chaos in society. ...
“Ginger tea, yoga, etc are symptomatic treatment methods – they’re good in helping boost your immunity. But it’s not a proper cure. A proven cure for Coronavirus has not been found yet.” The New Coronavirus ...
“ISIS has already rebuilt its forces and it’s moving to the offensive … only this time militants are better trained, better equipped, and they are no longer interested in engaging the military in frontal attacks ...
“Californians should be forewarned that if they want to vote for someone outside the centrists — say, Bernie Sanders — they need to change their party affiliation to either Democrat or No Party Preference. But ...
“Australia, writes Rick Sterling, should be proud of its three native sons that were willing to speak truth to power no matter the consequences.” (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across ...
The Democratic Party’s top presidential nomination contenders have now engaged in their eleventh debate but, for the most part, kept the gloves on and did not go for the jugular. But of the few shots ...
Libya’s political future has yet to be decided, but it will deeply impact Europe’s future and the battle against Islamic radicalism. A stone’s throw away from Europe, Libya’s internal strife is ringing ever present in ...
“Guaidó’s appearance may only be covered as a footnote in American media, but it illustrates Trump’s campaign strategy and the weakness within the Democratic party establishment in resisting American imperialism.” For many viewers, the most ...
In the past decade, new technologies have transformed the way that people learn. The world of education changed in the past decade. New technologies transformed the way that people learn, standards for what is taught ...
Although the risk of full-scale war with Iran has significantly diminished, there are several other tools Iran could use against the U.S. If Iran has come to play second fiddle to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...