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 ...
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed ...
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 ...
Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z are weighing in on the plight of black men and women in the United States — through a collaboration on a new song entitled “Entrepreneur”. After the death of George Floyd ...
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, ...
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 ...
Across the U.S., the ice cream truck song is a familiar sound during summer — but it has a racist past. Will drivers stop playing it? The familiar melody is actually called “Turkey in the ...
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 ...
Boys State is a new documentary that focuses on an annual event where teenagers are brought together for an exercise in government — providing a revealing glimpse into why politics are the way they are ...
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) ...
“The supernatural series takes place in the 1950s Jim Crow-era south, following a group of African American protagonists who must battle racism, monsters, and terror — with the lines blurring between all of those elements.” ...
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 ...
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