“Trump is rejecting the rule of law and proposing military action that is antithetical to basic premises of the American experiment.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump on Monday evening threatened to use ...
“What we found is consistent with what people saw. There is no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The family of George Floyd, whose killing ...
“When the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, made public her plans to bring a case to the court last year, the US revoked her visa as punishment.” The International Criminal Court is set to begin ...
When, in mid-May, House Democrats rolled out the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (Heroes) Act, H.R. 6800, as the latest congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic, they also included a handful of criminal justice ...
Despite repressive curfews and police brutality, chants of “No Justice, No Peace” ring around the country. This weekend’s images of police brutality and militarized police across the nation solidified America’s status as a full-blown police ...
The war on Vietnam plays an infinitely larger role in history in the common understanding of a typical U.S. citizen than does what the U.S. government did to Indonesia in 1965-1966. But if you read ...
While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to ...
A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community ...
We need the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to be better than Trump. But we also need him to be better than himself. Dear Mr. Vice President Joe Biden, You showed up in public on Memorial ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
S.3176 was passed without being named, debated, or even discussed, even though it would set into law the largest such aid package in US history. This article was originally published at IAK and Mintpress News on May ...
![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 "Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran? 18")
As with George W. Bush’s false WMD claims about Iraq in 2003, Trump’s real goal is not nuclear non-proliferation but regime change. (Common Dreams) On May 6th, President Trump vetoed a war powers bill specifying that ...
Cruz’ call for an investigation into Twitter is the latest in a month of political turmoil for the company. Sen. Ted Cruz, R–Texas, formally asked the federal government to investigate Twitter on Friday. Cruz alleged ...
The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The “profit incentive,” they learn, makes private capitalism the ...
(World Beyond War) I’m adding Christian Sorensen’s new book, Understanding the War Industry, to the list of books I think will convince you to help abolish war and militaries. See the list below. Wars are ...
Twitter put a warning on the tweet for glorifying violence, while the fight for justice continues on the streets of Minneapolis and across the United States In the wake of a cop murdering George Floyd, ...
“Killing has no place in our National Wildlife Refuges.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s National Park Service plans to finalize rules this week that will allow hunters in Alaska to kill bear cubs and wolf ...
“If polluters want to deny the existence of the ongoing bailout, Congress should swiftly repeal these blatant corporate tax giveaways and make fossil fuels ineligible for stimulus lending programs.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) A ...
The order, if implemented, could theoretically facilitate easier lawsuits against social media companies. Years before US President Donald Trump took office, he connected with his base through Twitter. There, he became a vocal critic of ...
Every advanced democracy in the world has their coronavirus epidemic largely under control except the United States. And we’re on the verge of melting down again because a substantial minority of Americans simply don’t know ...
While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007, Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George ...
The U.S. has fumbled its own response to the pandemic at the same time that its greedy and selfish behavior about vaccines alienates the rest of the world. Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war ...
Pompeo’s assertion that Hong Kong no longer deserves special treatment could have wide-ranging economic effects for both states, depending on how Trump decides to proceed. Since the British government divested itself of Hong Kong in ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts an above-average hurricane season for 2020. The 2020 hurricane season began on May 15th in the Pacific and starts on June 1st in the Atlantic. NOAA predicts a ...
“What is happening tonight in our city is shameful,” Rep. Ilhan Omar said of police behavior. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Minneapolis police officers dressed in riot gear fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun ...
Even before COVID-19, the U.S. has had one of the lowest voter turnout rates among developed countries. This is a critical election year, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was a voting season unlike ...
Without further assistance from the Federal government, all states will be obliged to make draconian cuts in their budgets. (Common Dreams) Has the Senate Majority Leader lost his faith in the wisdom and predictability of ...
Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New York Times ...
The first oil tanker that came from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port into the Caribbean is called Fortune. The tanker entered Venezuelan waters on May 24 and was then escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force ...
“The federal government should have acquired, contracted for tests, PPE, they should have made it available to states in much greater quantities.” The COVID-19 virus has hit elderly populations the hardest, but despite pleas from ...
“The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They did not care.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage posted to social ...
An environmental photographer filed the copyright claim directly with YouTube YouTube took down a Michael Moore-produced documentary “Planet of the Humans” after a British photographer launched a copyright claim against the film. But Moore argued ...
Dan Kovalik’s new book, No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests — which I am adding to my list of books you should read on ...
The lives of civilians in Aden are being pushed into the abyss not only due to epidemic, disease, and fallout from flash floods but because of violent clashes between opposing factions of the Saudi-led Coalition. ...
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio executive produced a new miniseries about Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States, that premieres on Memorial Day on the History Channel. Based on the critically acclaimed 2017 ...
Biden and policy advisers around him have re-tooled the basic Trump and American foreign policy with slightly friendlier language As America reaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths, President Trump is taking a golf trip and most states ...
(By: Anthony Pahnke & Jim Goodman, Common Dreams) From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass ...
While negative coverage of Donald Trump has been common due to his handling of the pandemic, media outrage has been muted in relation to the magnitude of the dying in our midst. (Common Dreams) Journalists ...
The Airports Council International (ACI) World and International Air Transport Association (IATA) outlined their recommendations for safely reopening air travel amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in a paper released this week. The Airports Council International (ACI) ...
Joe Biden is the Democratic Party presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders gave up the fight and endorsed him, and Elizabeth Warren has evidently abandoned her principles to try to become Biden’s VP pick. So yeah, a ...
“Today I’m identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues and mosques — as essential places that provide essential services.” Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and shutdown culture became standard fare, calls to reopen churches have ...
(David Swanson) John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and this TED Talk, has a new book called Touching the Jaguar. You can pre-order it here and get an online workshop and other bonus materials that I haven’t ...
A group of Hindu policemen in central India beat a diabetic man seeking treatment at a hospital after they mistook him for a Muslim man because of his beard. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) In ...
Importing kangaroo meat and skins must be banned in the EU, but Americans can also help protect this iconic species. Before the global pandemic turned the world swiftly on its head, another disaster unfolded with ...
What do you call a crisis that kills a hundred thousand Americans? It all depends on who does the dying. At first, it seemed like it was mostly white people infected and/or killed by the ...
This is the seventh and final article in series about the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee’s Shark Tank Initiative Hearing. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 , Part 6 ...
Earth Day was different this year. Filmmaker Michael Moore released his bombshell climate change documentary, Planet of the Humans, on YouTube on April 21, the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film ...
An Alaska school board that was in the national spotlight after removing five books from its high school reading list has rescinded its vote. In April, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Palmer, Alaska, voted ...
“I think we have a very good relationship with Russia. But Russia didn’t adhere to the treaty. So until they adhere we will pull out,” Trump said. For 30 years, the Treaty on Open Skies ...
This is the sixth in the multi-article series about the Shark Tank initiative, discussion Dr. Bright’s whistleblower complaint about corruption, political and industry influence in BARDA’s work. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, ...
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