“More than ever, we’re concerned about the worsening health situation and its impact on the burgeoning recovery. Rebounding mobility and poor use of protective equipment will make for a dangerous summer cocktail.” At a White ...
To make matter worse, Remdesivir is a drug that “has had its development costs paid for, in large part, by independent donors like governments and ministries of health in China, the WHO, and the US government.” ...
The Trump administration has turned sharply toward economic nationalism. It attacks and undermines the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the UN. Trump and other top officials explicitly insult many world leaders. He imposes high tariffs. ...
“The bases were named during the Jim Crow South era and it wasn’t done to respect the African Americans of the South. It was to appease the Jim Crow governments of that era.” The annual ...
Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June ...
They don’t care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money. The bizarre “conservative” idea of “freedom” has struck again. Margaret Sullivan reported in the Washington Post on a new study that ...
Republican Lauren Boebert previously made headlines for illegally reopening her gun-themed restaurant during the coronavirus lockdown While some progressive Democratic outsiders have booked victories against stalwart incumbents, outsider Republicans have also produced upset victories over ...
With unemployment nearing Great Depression levels and many still waiting on any government support, a new person-to-person relief economy is forming. The responses of governments around the world to the pandemic and its resulting economic ...
“What our numbers show is that voters are fed up with Mitch McConnell continually putting corporate handouts ahead of working people.” In a tight Democratic primary, Amy McGrath defeated Kentucky state Rep. Charlies Booker, The ...
Lack of healthcare is a death sentence. (Common Dreams) In the first 10 Democratic debates, moderators asked candidates 21 questions about how they planned to pay for social programs like Medicare for All. Yet when it ...
“Taxpayers provided funding for the development of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Consumer advocates reacted with disgust Monday ...
Comedian and former talk show host Jon Stewart directs Irresistible, a new feature film that explores the role of money in politics. Teaming up with his one-time “The Daily Show” colleague Steve Carell, Jon Stewart’s ...
While community members remembered Elijah McClain with a violin vigil, the police responded with pepper spray and batons. After a full month of nationwide protests in response to a Minneapolis cop killing George Floyd, in ...
(David Swanson) The past month’s activism has changed a great deal. One thing it’s helped with is brushing aside the tired old argument over whether government should be big or small. In its place we ...
“Elijah McClain and his family deserve justice.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Demonstrators in Aurora, Colorado Saturday are calling for justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being attacked by city ...
“This is a clear instance of the law and law enforcement being used to protect corporations, profit, and property over people.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) At least 40 U.S. climate and environmental advocacy groups ...
It looks like the president’s goal is to make America white. When President Donald Trump first began talking about ending “chain migration” in 2017, media outlets pointed out that his own parents-in-law had likely obtained lawful ...
“After talking with Breonna Taylor’s family, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants. This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States.” In the ...
“It’s obvious,” Barr said. US Attorney General William Barr offered no evidence to support the Trump administration’s stance against mail-in voting. During an interview on “Morning Edition,” the highest ranking US attorney also defended the ...
The US is considering approving the product even as Monsanto juggles multiple multi-million dollar lawsuits from cancer patients over its deadly Roundup herbicide. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The United States Department of Agriculture is ...
![U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump for a working lunch with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trump-bolton-pompeo-288x180.jpg "Bolton Weaves a Tall Tale in his Venezuela Chapter 21")
Four major sanctions over 10 months that crippled the Venezuelan economy are hardly indicative of an administration that “vacillated and wobbled”, in Bolton’s words. (Common Dreams) From the first paragraph of “Venezuela Libre”, the ninth ...
“Europe will have to take on more responsibility.” On Monday, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S military to withdraw 9,500 out of over 34,000 troops from Germany by September, citing that Berlin had owed payment ...
“Carlos Ingram Lopez should still be alive today.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Video of the police killing of Tucson, Arizona resident Carlos Ingram Lopez in April was released to the public on Wednesday, prompting ...
The future of school choice with COVID-19 may be playing out in suburban communities like Wake County, North Carolina, and it isn’t pretty. While sheltering with her family during the pandemic, dealing with the challenges ...
As protests against police brutality and racism drive policy shifts around the nation, which changes can actually bring sustained long-term improvements? Protesters against police brutality and racism have gathered to demand systemic change since the ...
With a global pandemic and an economic recession, homeless sweeps meet resistance While millions of Americans were told to stay at home at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, unhoused people were the most acutely ...
“Mr. Barr’s work at the Department of Justice has nothing to do with correcting injustice. He is the President’s fixer.” The House Judiciary Committee opened its investigation into Attorney General William Barr Wednesday with testimony ...
With mass protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin morphing into demands to grapple with racism and to confront a police culture where brutality is all too common, and ...
“Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve ...
Tonight we are proving that the people’s movement in NY isn’t an accident. It‘s a mandate. While nationwide protests against police brutality continue, some voters had the chance to vote in Democratic primary elections in ...
It’s become clear we can’t rely on EPA to do its job. Which is why the task once again falls to Congress. (Common Dreams) Four years ago this week, Congress and President Obama took a ...
“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” said President Donald Trump. The statement came as a response to White House officials who insisted the president was simply joking when ...
Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s rightwing government is not only less and less popular among Americans, but it guarantees continued repression against Palestinians and continued unrest in the region. (Common Dreams) Joe Biden wants you ...
“Let us go forward together, and demand that Congress finally make the necessary investments in clean water for all Americans, putting human lives ahead of corporate profits.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A report about ...
The Trump administration is angling to move billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid directly into the State Department, partially bypassing USAID and giving the White House near-total discretionary control over how and to who ...
No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest. (Common Dreams) BlackRock is a global financial giant ...
According to Johns Hopkins Unversity, Arizona currently has the biggest spike in cases nationwide. As coronavirus cases spike in the south and west of the United States, President Trump is set to hold a rally ...
It is not just for purposes of getting a vaccine and treatments quickly that we should want fully open research. (Common Dreams) I know I have been pounding on this a lot, but it is ...
“This late Friday night dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York whose ...
American voters now support sweeping changes to policing; 83 percent want a ban on racial profiling, 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras and White Americans’ concern over police violence has increased by ...
We are at a reckoning point in history, where we must decide how we will continue as a nation and how we will continue as inhabitants on this planet that supports all of our lives. ...
As the nation grapples with long-simmering racial tensions reignited by the murder of George Floyd, a series of suspicious hanging deaths of black men is sparking fears of a new wave of anti-black terror. (By: ...
How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality. Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact about the US economy. But remarkably, mainstream economics (that is, the ECON learned by most ...
“EPA has abdicated its responsibility to set federal drinking water standards for a chemical long known to be unsafe.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s EPA on Thursday finalized a rule to roll ...
“The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection using a Nazi concentration camp symbol.” President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign shared a new ad on Facebook using Trump’s typical alarmist language about ‘dangerous mobs’ ...
“In South America, Trump wanted to send the US military to Venezuela to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, Bolton writes. He ‘insisted on military options for Venezuela’ and even told his cabinet that it ‘is really ...
Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of COVID-19. Nor do we yet see a labor-led national protest against ...
US racism and police violence are intrinsically linked and date back many years, but the militarization of the US police and its use of deadly violence against suspected petty criminals, or even non criminals, is ...
“Certainly things held indoors are less safe than things held outdoors. But all these large gatherings are going to lead to spread. There’s just no question about it.” President Donald Trump is preparing to return ...
“Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers’ 401(k) plans and IRAs.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) With the American public’s attention consumed by ...
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