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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
During the busiest periods, the process will slow due to COVID-19’s constraints. For the estimated 50 million Americans who will vote at a polling place this fall, delays and long lines will likely surface sooner ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, the charter industry added to systemic inequities that afflict Black communities. The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic ...
A legal stipulation preserves the images, which could become evidence proving who won the presidential election in a major battleground state. In November 2018, Florida faced its biggest recount nightmare since the 2000 presidential election. ...
Does the typical CEO of a major company add $20 million of value to the company that employs them or could they hire someone at one-tenth of this price who would do just as much ...
Our richest corporations are much to blame for the free-market “winner take all” philosophy that has caused over half of our nation to try to survive without adequate health care and life savings. (Common Dreams) When Dr. ...
The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age. ...
The largest Wall Street bank is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service for the exclusive right to solicit postal banking customers. (Common Dreams) Imagine if activists and elected officials were clamoring for emergency ...
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 ...
“We’re human, we have real feelings and I’m glad that we got a chance to get in a room and talk with one another and not just cross paths and say good luck in your ...
Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University—looked at raw evidence ...
Paul and his wife were confronted while protests heat up across the country. Protesters demanding racial justice confronted Republican Senator Rand Paul and his wife as police escorted them back to his hotel after the ...
The study comes amid unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the latest high-profile police shooting of a Black man and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an alleged far-right militia member. (By: Julia Conley, Common ...
The U.S. presidential election has so far involved and will undoubtedly continue to involve a clash over voting strategy for the left. A significant array of left commentators, for example, Cornel West, AOC, Angela Davis, ...
“We knew this would happen. Lake Charles and Cameron Parish are petrochemical industry epicenters. The plants, export terminals, refineries, oil tank farms are ticking time bombs every hurricane season.” This is a developing news story… ...
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 ...
US Cyber Command and the Pentagon are availing themselves of the Russian meddling narratives and added a few others to justify the creation of a cyberwar army with international and domestic capabilities via the National ...
Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled “To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and “If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The ...
When it comes to ending the scourge of Donald Trump at the ballot box, John Roberts is not your friend, let alone your savior. As election day approaches, voting-rights lawsuits are heating up across the ...
Marijuana is on the ballot in South Dakota in November this year. This is a state that has the dubious distinction of being the only one to twice defeat a medical marijuana initiative. And it ...
British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s ...
“It’s something students are definitely going to want to talk about when they come back to school,” Samantha Garrett told me while schools were closed for the summer in Milwaukee, and the community was grappling with the ...
Unconfirmed reports have linked the shooter to a militia group with videos shared on social media showing him walking by police after the shooting. In the third night of uprising and protest following the police ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris was able to visit him with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated ...
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 ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump adviser Jared Kushner are hitting the road in an attempt to strong-arm more Arab states into normalizing relations with Israel, turning their backs on Palestine and isolating Iran. ...
In the rush to vote absentee as the pandemic broke, they didn’t fill out forms to get a mailed-out ballot for the presidential election too. On August 20, the Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that they would send ...
“We cannot have the specter of a disrupted election – an election that doesn’t count all votes – hovering over the election season.” Donning a blue US Postal Service mask, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faced ...
“Jacob Blake’s 3 SONS were IN THE CAR he was getting into when Kenosha Police shot him tonight. They saw a cop shoot their father. They will be traumatized forever.” Unrest erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin ...
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, ...
“The Democrats are trying to make this a referendum on Donald Trump, not his policies, not the issues, but on Donald Trump himself.” As a celebrity, President Donald Trump has been forced to endure critics ...
Many countries are now experiencing the second surge in cases that medical experts warned would occur if public safety measures and restrictions were lifted too soon. Only roughly 4 percent of the world’s population lives ...
“From the most remote village in the Alaskan tundra to the tiniest island in the Everglades, there’s one connection we’ve always depended on: the mail.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) As of Friday afternoon, more ...
The key message from this year’s DNC is the emphasis the Biden campaign is putting on reaching out to so-called “moderate Republicans,” presenting Trump as an aberration and Biden as the cure. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
The facts show that Trump is engaged in a child abuse scheme of massive proportions—in violation of the very laws he is claiming to uphold. President Donald Trump thinks of himself as a champion against ...
New figures from the Institute for Policy Studies show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer than ever, adding nearly $700 billion to their fortune since the ...
In the face of a historic public outcry, the postmaster general has promised to stop sabotaging essential services—temporarily. (Common Dreams) Skyleigh Heinen, a U.S. Army veteran who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and anxiety, relies on ...
“If this helps, good… But you can’t buy back trust in government—or the water coming out of your faucet.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Six years after residents in Flint, Michigan began relying on their ...
“It takes those vital, truthful, healthy revolutionary impulses, then twists them around into support for the United States president and the agendas of the Republican Party.” Today the US president moved from tacit endorsement and evading ...
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
