As Americans become increasingly critical of the Israeli government, foreign assistance is put under a new microscope. (Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News) JERUSALEM — Last year, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager with an American gun. Now ...
Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already ...
Biden must recognize that the best way to protect U.S. personnel in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region is to take them out of the Middle East. The U.S. bombing of Syria on Thursday ...
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 ...
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 ...
After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools. In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect ...
Biden kicked off his campaign by telling wealthy donors that “nothing would fundamentally change” under his presidency. After one month in office, it appears as if that is one campaign promise he is likely to ...
Twitter’s actions are quite a departure from 2019 when it delayed a network upgrade in Iran at the behest of the US government for fear that it could interfere with anti-government demonstrations. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress. The Biden-Harris transition team identified COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change as its top priorities. Rivers are the through-line ...
Protests in Haiti have led to hundreds of deaths yet have drawn little attention in the west, thanks in large part to its strongman leaders’ continued loyalty to the United States. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
American neocons and hawks, including those inside his own administration, appear to be flexing their muscles to kill Biden’s commitment to diplomacy at birth, and his own hawkish foreign policy views make him dangerously susceptible to their ...
“The tax code is so rigged for the rich that even when they kill people they get a tax break.” (By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams) Four pharmaceutical corporations that agreed to pay a combined $26 billion ...
Workers at one of Amazon’s warehouses are deciding whether or not to join a union. Amazon’s union-busting efforts indicate just how important the vote is. Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, ...
In Durham, North Carolina, a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change. As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina, ended, she would ...
Hedge funds and private equity firms make profits off our misery and threaten any future health care reform. (Laura Packard, Common Dreams) Americans are drowning in billions of dollars of medical debt, which continues to ...
Under Donald Trump’s presidency, Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia, Israel, the UAE, and other repressive regimes, had virtually free reign to commit unchecked human rights abuses without worry that they might be chastised or ...
The lack of critical coverage of Biden’s new announcement suggests that corporate media will no longer be as concerned about “kids in cages” now their preferred candidate is in the White House. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
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 ...
The pandemic has demonstrated the shortcomings of our mega-food industries and the necessity to localize food production. Farms and mills from Northern California to Canada are creating new small-scale, regional food systems. The U.S. was ...
Unable to secure a profit in immunizing poorer nations, Western multinationals, including Oxford’s private partner AstraZeneca, have prioritized those who can pay the most. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Europe is reeling from the shock ...
The same media that behaved as attack dogs against Trump for four years (unless he was carrying out aggressive actions abroad) are likely to turn into lap dogs now that there is a Democrat in ...
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 ...
Haines is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. (Editor’s Note: Avril Haines’ Confirmation Hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, January 19) Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets foot in the White House, the ...
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 ...
Nuland would be a ticking time-bomb in Biden’s State Department, waiting to sabotage his better angels much as she undermined Obama’s second-term diplomacy. Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because ...
Samantha Power has been an outspoken advocate of US humanitarian intervention, promoting the Iraq war and defending human rights abusers like Israel and Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) President-elect Joe Biden has selected ...
Biden’s officials have spent their careers in a hall of mirrors and revolving doors that conflates and confuses defense with corrupt, self-serving militarism, but our future now depends on rescuing our country from that deal with the devil. In ...
New figures from the UN and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show that since the war in Yemen began, the US has sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, making the Kingdom ...
So much vital work to be done—that must be done—for a more a peaceful world. Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that ...
“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic (By: Alan Macleod, ...
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 ...
In the days between Election Day and the announcement of Joe Biden as the projected winner of the presidential race, even as national election results remained muddy, one thing was crystal clear: the American public ...
So long as U.S. leaders continue to coddle the Saudis, it’s difficult not to ask who is more evil—the maniacal Saudi crown prince or the mendacious Western governments and businesspeople who support him? Washington Post ...
There were 104 separate incidents of drivers crashing into protests between May 27, the date of the George Floyd killing, and September 5, including 96 civilians and 8 police vehicles. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out. “Instead of going to school every morning, what if school could come to you?” an ad asks enticingly, promising ...
In 2004, Dr. José Armando Arronte Villamarín was posted to head a Cuban medical brigade in Namibia. Cuban medical personnel first came to southwest Africa in 1975 alongside Cuban soldiers; the soldiers had arrived there ...
“If you can’t get a Covid test or find an N95, it’s because these contractors stole from the American people to make faster jets and fancy uniforms.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Instead of adhering ...
Purported to be among Joe Biden’s top picks for Defense Secretary, the longtime supporter of endless war and limitless Pentagon budgets is exactly the wrong choice. If the Democrats manage to push Joe Biden over ...
It is long past time to recognize that the cruel experiment in financing higher education through student loans has failed. The democratic principle of tuition-free education in our country pre-dates the founding of the United ...
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 ...
In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with U.S. President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that the virus was virulent, but he decided to ...
Come November 3, Oregon residents will have a chance to approve the most far-reaching drug reform measure ever to make a state ballot when they vote on Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act. ...
After much delay, GOP-led legislatures in Michigan and Pennsylvania may act. But they are offering less than what Democrats seek—and what other GOP-led battleground states do. Republican-led legislatures in Michigan and Pennsylvania may soon pass ...
Western capitalist approaches have created dangerous conditions in California, but Indigenous communities have managed fire as a natural part of the ecosystem. In more than 20 years of living in Southern California, I have never ...
The racist analogies have not held up for centuries, and yet they continue to crop up from unqualified and prominent figures today. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been known to have an interest in eugenics, but ...
Barr’s views on the role of religion in public life, while less publicized than his cheerleading for executive power, are equally virulent. Attorney General Bill Barr is by far the most dangerous member of Donald ...
