“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 ...
“We are going very quickly. I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccine.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the U.S. withdrawal ...
“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former ...
We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare. (Common Dreams) Should constitutional rights be used to shield corporations ...
We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. (Common Dreams) On Sept. 11, 1973, I was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. That morning, one of my roommates, a Chilean ...
“Never in the history of the federal elections have we ever not held an election and we should go forward with our election.” With the US elections nearly three months away, President Donald Trump tweeted ...
Not only are deaths up, but the state’s positivity rate is pushing 20% as Tropical Storm Isaias approaches. On the same day 216 Floridians died from the coronavirus, officials announced they would close all state-run ...
“Mnuchin and the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service appear to be exploiting this public health pandemic to hold the Postal Service to unreasonable loan terms without even consulting Congress.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when masses of people rise up against it. That happened, for example, ...
The federal moratorium on evictions expired this week, leaving 12 million renters at risk of losing their homes, and much as they did with healthcare, Democrats are offering little more than token non-solutions. (By: Alan ...
“Just how twisted is the Senate GOP coronavirus bill you ask? It includes $686 million for new F-35 fighter jets.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a floor speech late Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...
Three weeks away from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) a group of delegates are poised to withhold support for Biden as the presidential nominee unless the party changes the platform to include Medicare for All ...
“It is unconscionable for the Trump administration to circumvent the rulings of a federal court in order to once again thrust into uncertainty the families and communities who rely on DACA to stay together and ...
What if we ignored corporations and their billionaire CEOs and owners altogether, gave them nothing, and instead directed all our efforts to providing unemployment and other benefits to individual human beings? (Common Dreams) It should ...
Solution: slash the prices and kill the ads. (Common Dreams) Prescription drugs have long provided two bad examples of American exceptionalism. They cost three-to-four times more than anywhere else, and we’re one of only two countries in the ...
$1,200 stimulus checks, cuts to unemployment benefits, no eviction moratorium, and a $1.75 billion FBI Building? Yesterday, the GOP announced their latest coronavirus stimulus package proposal, the HEALS Act, a $1 trillion bill in response ...
The moves are believed by experts to be information gathering operations, attempting to track the positions of Chinese submarines and pinpoint coastal defenses as the US increases the tension with Beijing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) ...
This history of Democratic obstruction and vacillation to corporate interests and the greed of insurance companies must come to an end. The need for Medicare for All has never been more clear than it is ...
“As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ...
In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health. Public health advocates were winning. City after city was innovating ways to ...
Now it is time for various House Committees to publicly question Chairman Powell about the costs of the Fed’s callous indifference to the real economy and struggling Americans. (Common Dreams) The Federal Reserve Board—our unaccountable ...
“If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After a U.S. district judge ...
Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him. President Donald Trump’s recent reelection campaign advertisement is straight out of the plot of a horror movie. Just days after he deployed ...
Americans may soon be able to import prescription drugs from Canada, courtesy of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday. Restructuring America’s Pharmaceutical Industry Americans may soon be able to import prescription ...
A “tsunami” of evictions is about to sweep across the United States when the 120-day moratorium ends today, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness or worse – a new set of landlords called Facebook, Google ...
“This turns journalists into an arm of the government. We are not here to do surveillance for police.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Journalists and civil liberties advocates alike condemned a ruling Thursday by a ...
Democrats in Chicago, Kansas City, and Albuquerque have struggled to respond to Trump sending in federal agents. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered some details on Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement operation in Chicago, ...
“Actions of this kind threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends.” Space, once reserved for communication ...
What we are now witnessing is an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of human beings desperately seeking safety and a better life. (Common Dreams) It’s hard to know exactly where the ...
“With private debt funds, there is no bank involvement and no involvement with any institution subject to regulatory review. No information seeps out of this black hole.” The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned in ...
The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The majority of House ...
The Kentucky Attorney General’s lawsuit not only targets Wall Street’s predatory pension management practices, but singles out Blackstone CEO and top McConnell and Trump donor Steve Schwarzman. In a surprise move on Wednesday, Kentucky Attorney ...
“The order to close the consulate, one of six China operates in the US in addition to its Washington embassy, came directly from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.” In the latest escalation of tensions with ...
“Reparations have been paid out to several groups in the United States in the past so it’s not something that’s unheard of and it’s definitely not something that’s a radical idea.” Many Americans are dismissive ...
In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world doesn’t organize itself,” and promised to “put the U.S. back at the head of the table” among the ...
Florida’s large population and its status as a swing state means that the prohibition on felons’ voting has national impacts. On July 16 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which will likely prevent ...
Video shows Trump supporters with a Confederate Flag on their truck attack Black Lives Matter protesters Counter-protesters and President Trump supporters attacked Black Lives Matters protesters in Teller County, Colorado on Friday. Video evidence shows ...
The state’s Republican leadership did nothing to prevent this democratic disaster from happening, even though it had happened before, just two years ago. (Common Dreams) As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a ...
“Neal is one of the most powerful members of Congress, and it’s clear he’s using that power to benefit Wall Street fund managers instead of regular Americans.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Rep. Richard Neal, ...
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, ...
A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot to ...
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