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 ...
Author Max Brooks is making headlines for suggesting that Hollywood could help relay the message of scientists during the global pandemic. It’s somewhat fitting, since the COVID-19 virus has the cinematic sweep of an apocalyptic ...
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 ...
Yoga teachers who work with marginalized communities say the practice is a key way to navigating stress, trauma and disruption. Like many industries, the yoga industry is facing some major upheavals due to COVID-19, with ...
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 ...
In Minneapolis, an overhaul of police conduct after the killing of George Floyd is inciting controversy among some activists. The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the city’s police department on June 26, a little more than ...
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 ...
As national protests call to defund and dismantle police departments, existing alternatives to police offer potential beacons for the way forward. This is a moment of contention and restructuring in America. Mass public outcry is ...
“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 ...
A study conducted by MintPress’ Alan Macleod revealed that both MSNBC and Fox News intentionally slanted their coverage to highlight Epstein’s links to either Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The ...
“They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David. (By: Jon Queally, Common Dreams) The U.S. Navy veteran who was brutally attacked by unidentified federal police in Portland, Oregon ...
Esther Salas’s son was killed and her husband injured four days after she was assigned the case of a lawsuit shareholders launched due to Deutsche Bank’s role in Epstein’s finances Five days ago, US District ...
Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. announced on Twitter that he wants to launch a conservative movie studio geared towards content that he believes Hollywood would normally avoid. “To all conservative producers who want to make a ...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us. Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying ...
“They want to see what they can get away with before launching into other parts of the country.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage and first-hand accounts of unidentified federal law enforcement officials snatching up Black Lives ...
“I had a staff sergeant when I was a young officer who actually told me that at Fort Bragg. He said he went to work every day on a base that represented a guy who ...
Anyone entertaining serious hopes for significant reordering of the American economy, of our race relations, of energy production and transportation, eventually realizes that all of this will require a simultaneous demilitarization of both our economy ...
A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
“This is an actual threat to political speech: badegeless, nameless, masked federal officers assaulting, and snatching-up protesters in Portland.” Federal agents in camo gear have been seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon pulling antiracism ...
What can make this moment’s passion positive? What can make this moment’s anger future-seeking? COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a ...
America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control. When schoolchildren across the United States began their ...
“Stepien has less than four months to turn the Trump campaign around. A large focus will be toward securing battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.” President Donald Trump made a drastic change to ...
“Eviction is a very public experience that impacts the entire community. Your belongings are dumped on the street while your children and neighbors watch. Given the high degree of tension we are already experiencing, I ...
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a ...
The fact that climate plans from the House Democrats and the “unity task forces” set up by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are better than anything we’ve seen in over a decade does not make ...
“We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed,” said Earthjustice. “We’ll be seeing them in court.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) ...
Taylor’s death at the hands of police officers on March 13 has prompted protests, but so far no officers have been charged. Demonstrations over Kentucky’s handling of the alleged murder of Breonna Taylor continued Tuesday. ...
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