The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic. When U.S. President Donald Trump cut off his government’s funding ...
A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent. Over the past several months, wildfires have burned a huge portion of Australia’s natural landscape. We’re talking almost ...
MintPress’ Ahmed Abdulkareem traveled through Yemen’s recently liberated al-Jawf Province to see firsthand the devastation left behind by Saudi-backed AQAP militants. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) The journey from Sana’a to the far northeastern stretches ...
“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A new report examining the ...
The oil and gas industry is weaker than ever, offering a perfect opportunity for humanity to pull the plug. While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid ...
The attack on the Chinese government and the World Health Organization’s work on the new virus by the Trump administration is unfounded. On April 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a news conference at the White ...
The coronavirus may have encouraged a break in usual diplomatic conflicts across the globe, but the US has maintained tension with Iran in the Persian Gulf. ‘Shoot Down and Destroy’ The coronavirus may have encouraged ...
“This reflects the deliberate invisibilization of the foreign worker; the whole machinery of state operates as though they don’t exist.” With COVID-19 taking a grip on countries all over the world, people are being told ...
Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
India is accelerating down the track of religious strife, and the government itself is driving the vehicle. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Last week, 22-year-old Dilshad “Mehboob” Ali was dragged into a field on the ...
A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia ...
One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health with the respecting of individual liberty? The virus respects no borders. ...
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread. On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
The Saudi regime has engaged in a number of questionable activities since the global outbreak of COVID-19, including moving masses of African refugees deported from areas with coronavirus to the Yemeni border. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, ...
Bill Cosby was always a rapist monster. That much, hindsight and evidence make clear. Still, moored in our “Me Too” moment, it’s easy to forget how profound and influential the man, and the network smash hit, The Cosby ...
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw ...
“Most royals are at severe risks of developing complications – poor diet, lack of exercise, age, all those factors play against many members of the monarchy I’m afraid. Evidently daily gatherings, outings and the coming ...
As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is ...
The principal deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) in the U.S. State Department, Alice Wells, dropped a bombshell on the Afghan government and the country’s political elites on ...
In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Dr. Tedros ...
The move was taken by the head of state’s medical team as a precaution in the event that a ventilator is needed. This is a developing news story… please check back for possible updates… (By: ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7 states failed to release a ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a number of questionable practices that have Yemenis fearing the Kingdom may be intentionally trying to spread the virus. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) The ...
“There is a massive shortage of respirators and ventilators, which are the only systems keeping patients with severe cases of COVID-19 alive.” Healthcare professionals are on the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus and ...
Citizen Truth talked to Fulbright grant recipients in Brasil and Spain about their unique situations and the different ways the crisis is affecting their lives and the lives of others in their respective countries. The ...
“This is not about fighting disinformation. The Hungarian government is taking advantage of a health emergency to accelerate its already extensive control over news and information in the country.” Yesterday, the Hungarian Parliament passed a ...
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
“The bottom line is that the Taliban (and Pakistan, which mentors it) would see that the political ascendance of the Taliban in Kabul, whenever it is due, happens with international legitimacy.” In an extraordinary statement ...
Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly. I’m writing this at 585,000 worldwide active cases, 26,000 deaths, and with only China and Korea seemingly ...
Assange’s treatment in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
“I am now self-isolating.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, just weeks after cavalierly declaring that he was still “shaking hands with ...
“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March ...
Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of COVID-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism. The COVID-19 pandemic is now moving at a speed that the world had not anticipated a few weeks ...
Citizen Truth’s William Bacha spoke to Italian and Spanish citizens about their personal experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. When I walked into the grocery store this morning the front of the store was filled with ...
“It is the weapons companies, private prisons, and asset management firms like BlackRock that stand to gain a profit from war and migration.” With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling ...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened ...
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen’s farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century ...
Bumping elbows at the United Nations. The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to ...
Reports out of Iran and Venezuela detail the devastating impact American sanctions are having on the two countries as they seek to prevent mass death and overwhelmed health services amid the global Coronavirus crisis. Reports ...
On March 16, 2020, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva wrote a blog post on the Fund’s website; it represents the kind of generosity necessary in the midst of a global pandemic. “The ...
“There were people whose lives were in danger, and we acted. Period.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) After two Italian volunteers used a 3-D printer to manufacture a desperately needed ventilator component for those stricken ...
The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the state. The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus. (By: Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin, ...
“We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) As an eruption of coronavirus cases in Italy strains the country’s healthcare system past its ...
The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women’s rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he ...
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