Christian Sorensen is a novelist, military analyst, and independent journalist mainly focused on war profiteering within the military-industrial complex. An Air Force veteran, he is the author of the recently published book, Understanding the War ...
Why label intelligence reports “Secret” then lie about it if no evidence of criminal activity or an intelligence-led cover-up existed? (By: Elizabeth Voz, Mintpress News)Concerning the Finders cult — the elusive Washington, D.C.-based outfit whose ...
Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
As we argue vaccination campaigns and the disintegration of our world economies millions of men and women have been forced into a cycle of abuse they can no longer escape – courtesy of mandatory lockdowns ...
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June ...
Danny Haiphong is a co-author of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. He is also a contributing editor at Black Agenda ...
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered. A 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands, was part ...
Heather Ann Thompson is the author of Blood In The Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 And Its Legacy.
There’s nothing new about this, which is why I know it’s there before having seen the new budget proposal. The United States funds most of the world’s most oppressive militaries, sells them weapons, and trains ...
Throughout its history—wherever it arrived and settled in as the dominant economic system—capitalism provoked struggles over the redistribution of wealth. In other words, this system always distributes wealth in a particular way and likewise produces ...
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically. The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in ...
Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Find out more about the New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNIs0hXRs1h2j03pNKvlu7QDpnyeNestA5llKSV1KpOgutFw/viewform
On April 20, President Joe Biden remarked that the police murder of George Floyd “ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism” in American policing, and he called for action at all ...
Frankie Roberts is the co-founder of LINC or Leading Into New Communities Inc. LINC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Wilmington, NC. They provide transitional living and case management services to meet the needs ...
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 ...
For a president who promised a new era of American diplomacy, this has been a dreadful start. President Biden took office promising a new era of American international leadership and diplomacy. But with a few ...
Cybersecurity threats are emerging as one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. and its NATO allies have turned down every attempt within the UN framework for banning cyberweapons. Two major ...
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 ...
The national debt is a meaningless number. (Common Dreams) I keep asking this question because whining over the government debt looks to be a huge growth sector in the next year or two, or perhaps ...
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 ...
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 ...
The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this ...
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 ...
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, ...
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