Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday on fraud charges. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) indicted Bannon and three accomplices for allegedly defrauding donors of a border wall ...
“Facebook banning leftwing media is the logical end point of begging a US-based corporate publishing monopoly to arbitrate truth.” Facebook announced yesterday it has removed hundreds of “Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts” connected to ...
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 ...
At the Democratic National Convention, Republicans have found a sizable seat at the table. The biggest headlines out of the virtual Democratic National Convention have been plaudits for Michelle Obama’s speech and more than a ...
A dismantled USPS erodes American social ties, neighborhoods and even families. (Common Dreams) The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of collapse and privatization. This comes after years of federal political maneuvering that has effectively depleted revenues ...
Wisconsin makes a big turnaround, while some issues in Georgia endure. After disastrous primaries in the early days of the pandemic, some of the same states have run better elections in August as voters have ...
A Three Percenter asked the witness if he was a member of Antifa and promised him more people would return to his home An armed man and member of the far-right Three Percenter militia showed ...
DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The ...
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 ...
Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep craters in the U.S. food ...
YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like ...
Adequate housing, healthcare, food, public services, education, mass transit, health & safety standards, and environmental protections are the prerequisites for a humane democracy. (Common Dreams) Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are ...
“The determination by an independent congressional watchdog today invalidates actions Mr. Cuccinelli and Mr. Wolf have taken and both should immediately step down from their illegal roles.” The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has completed a ...
“I have never in my career faced so much difficulty attempting to trial monitor as in Julian Assange’s case.” — Rebecca Vincent, Director of International Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
On this anniversary, we must renew our commitment to preserving and expanding Social Security in the face of these relentless efforts to undermine it. (Common Dreams) When President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law ...
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 ...
“The NCAA has failed generations of young men and women even when it comes to their most basic responsibility — keeping the athletes under their charge healthy and safe. The time has come for change.” ...
(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 ...
The Anti-Money Laundering Act would expose the owners of shell companies now sits alone on a shelf in the US Senate while the Federal Reserve shrugs its shoulders in the face of blatant manipulation by ...
Republican John Kasich will enjoy a full speaker slot at the Democratic National Convention With the Vice President selected, the Democratic Party is gearing up for the Democratic National Convention. To the surprise and frustration ...
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back manufacturing that the U.S. and European ...
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 ...
Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million. (Common Dreams) How’s pandemic life been going for you? If you work in America’s healthcare industry, that depends. That totally depends. If ...
In a three-week period leading up to the VP announcement, Harris’s page was edited over 400 times, magnitudes more than her rivals. Yesterday, the Joe Biden campaign announced Senator Kamala Harris as the Democratic ticket’s ...
The U.S. imports everything from food to toilet paper, medical supplies to widgets. How one American state is changing that. “An incredible opportunity for domestic manufacturing.” That’s how Mercedes Gonzalez, a director at Global Purchasing ...
The conditions of isolation foster not only physical but also psychological violence, which can be even more devastating for the victims. (Common Dreams) One of the most neglected consequences of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 is ...
“Trump’s erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s trade policies during his first term have “failed to ...
“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.” Lawyers for US President Donald Trump responded to legal pressure from Manhattan District ...
“He is working to dismantle a fundamental institution of our democracy. He needs to resign or be removed, now.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) On the heels of a “Friday Night Massacre” at the U.S. ...
The unrest and riots in Chicago took place early Monday morning After a heated confrontation with police over a Sunday afternoon officer-involved shooting, an uprising of riots and looting erupted early Monday morning. Chicago police ...
“America is in a dead sprint to authoritarianism. The man is pulling out all the stops to prevent the citizens of this country from holding a legitimate election in which he might face removal from ...
“Anything that’s going on social media that’s negative or alike without permission, photography, that’s video or anything, there will be consequences.” Autumn normally is a time for schools to welcome back students, but during the ...
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 ...
People have the right to know how CEOs and major corporations do on the “Hedonistic Index” of greed and power. (Common Dreams) The combination of greed and power often spin out of control and challenge ...
In the fight for racial justice, teachers have a heavy job, for schools are both microcosms of, and preparation for, society. Because teachers serve as significant adult figures in children’s lives, their interactions with students ...
“This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail.” Many of the states to have the first schools reopen in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic have faced multiple growing pains. The growing laundry ...
“The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets.” New York is taking on the National Rifle Association as Attorney General ...
The Food Industry Scorecard is the result of a year-long audit of the nation’s largest food companies to see what animal welfare promises they made, kept and broke. Like countless animal lovers, I have always ...
Cori Bush, activist and nurse, was the highlight of the results as she defeated a Missouri political dynasty in her Democratic primary. Two big Democratic victories are being held as a benchmark for the success ...
Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic convention in Wisconsin. Schools and work have turned to virtual settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, so it should come as no surprise ...
In June the U.S. Department of Energy published the Report on the Status of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands. The report claims that the decades old nuclear waste dump in the Marshall Islands ...
“It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits.” (By: Lisa Newcomb, Common Dreams) As Covid-19 cases and deaths ...
“I do not want to be an experiment.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The hashtag #DemandSafeSchools lit up Twitter on Monday as teachers and students in districts across the country took part in protests over ...
With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials ...
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 ...
The use of force detailed in the report “is ultimately a symptom of the very issue that started these protests: unaccountable police violence.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In a report titled “The World is ...
Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S. Big ...
The president’s attack on the Nevada mail-in voting initiative elevates the state’s position as a strong predictor of the presidential victor, having only chosen two losers in over the past 100 years. President Donald Trump ...
“It was a hellhole long before COVID happened.” Prisoners at Georgia’s Ware State Prison rioted Sunday after reports of high tensions due to coronavirus cases and poor living conditions. Two staff members and three prisoners ...
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 ...
