“Rescuing fossil fuel production is absolutely the wrong direction for public health amid a global pandemic.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) The Federal Reserve came under fire Thursday for expanding its emergency Main Street Lending Program ...
The situation in the area of M4 highway (Aleppo-Latakia) of Idlib province remains tense in relation to the activities of terrorist groups. Particularly, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham members held another protest near al-Nayrab village on April ...
“If that happened in real life, I think everyone would very clearly and viscerally understand the privacy implications, but because this is being done remotely with sophisticated video technology from an airplane, we don’t experience ...
“As Covid-19 cases began to increase, senators and representatives from both parties traded securities—many related to the pandemic itself.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A new analysis of financial disclosure documents found that Republican and Democratic ...
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military “aid?” (DavidSwanson.org) —Did you know that the U.S. government has ...
“We only wish that this administration cared as much about the lives of working people as it does about meat, pork, and poultry products.” President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday ordering meat and ...
“A country that puts people in this situation is not a country upholding its responsibility to its citizens.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A Gallup poll out Tuesday indicates that tens of millions of U.S. adults ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of withholding coronavirus aid from sanctuary cities. After several rounds of emergency relief from Congress, states and local governments are still waiting on Capitol Hill to support ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is close to finalizing language that would remove discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans. Health experts are sounding the alarm about a Trump administration regulatory rollback that ...
Hello world! As I sit at my desk gazing at what is fast-becoming an overgrown garden – my daughter thought earlier this April that she would beat her boredom by mowing the grass and instead ...
“Health care workers don’t need lip service. They need raises, health benefits, and paid sick leave.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A new study on the crisis of underlying illness, poverty, and lack of insurance within ...
“Given the power enjoyed by his sister Betsy DeVos and the close relationships he enjoys with senior figures in the United States government, it appears that a new era is dawning for Erik Prince.” The ...
The new data—which also address child marriages, female genital mutilation, and unintended pregnancies—”shows the catastrophic impact that COVID-19 could soon have on women and girls globally.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Lockdowns around the world ...
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 ...
“I was in denial. That can’t be, I am an American citizen. My child is an American citizen. How can they exclude us? That can be real.” While a majority of Americans have begun to ...
The native plant movement and backyard habitat projects seek to re-create livable natural spaces for endangered pollinators and other animals. The world’s wildlife is in danger of dying off, and inevitably taking humanity out with ...
“Today’s decision is an outrage, a blow to American democracy, and must be overturned by the DNC.” When Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for President, he announced a strategy to continue to amass delegates, “while ...
America’s billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while ...
Like growing millions of Americans who are not sick from Covid 19, but from Trump’s setting new standards for derangement, I determined to discover what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually means. And where it came from. I ...
Arresting and imprisoning people for drug offenses is a luxury America’s biggest cities are finding they can no longer afford as they struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. Now, citing the need for social distancing measures, ...
“Payday lenders exploit millions of working families through predatory practices. Congress shouldn’t prop them up during this crisis.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is pressing the Trump administration to ...
During an interview with Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow asked who owned the patent for the vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk. “There is no ...
“We once again have been forgotten by our own government.” Native American tribes and reservations have been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic both in terms of public health and economy. “We are United States ...
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 many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the Cornoavirus has created a brave new world. And in other ways, the arrangement has reinforced the cowardly old one. Class ...
Raising awareness about the risks of continuing “agribusiness as usual” has become more important than ever. A typical weekend for 26-year-old Juvel Ingal is perhaps atypical for most. On Saturdays, she spends her time at ...
As corporations like Amazon and Whole Foods spend fortunes on advertising campaigns thanking their workforce for “heroic” service, they refuse to provide even basic protective gear or sick pay and ruthlessly crush any internal dissent. (By: Alan ...
“This decision is a huge victory for clean water. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to blow a big hole in the Clean Water Act’s protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans.” In ...
Turkey’s foreign policy centered around Recep Erdogan’s ambitions has been devised as a giant web weaved all across Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe. Now the Turkish leader may fall prey to his own schemes. ...
“Profit-driven capitalism proved extremely inefficient in its response to the virus.” Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.” ...
“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 ...
“We don’t want people to panic. We don’t want people to be afraid of pets. There’s no evidence that pets are playing a role in spreading this disease to people.” Until this week, humans have ...
William Shakespeare called our world a stage because just as actors make their entry and exits onto a stage, so we all enter into this world, move through different stages in life on this earth, ...
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 ...
If you were playing a game by its rules, discovered the rules were unfair, and learned that the penalty for losing the game was death, would you not flip over the table?
Stupidity Is Killing Us When did America become so stupid? There have recently been rallies at state capitols of “Liberate Michigan,” “Liberate Texas,” etc., which the president has fueled on Twitter. The rallies advocate for ...
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 ...
Shalala broke federal law by not disclosing stock sales in 2019 as required by the STOCK Act. When Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Donna Shalala as the sole Democrat to the five-person Congressional ...
“It’s simply bizarre and unconscionable that the Trump administration would have United manage billions in relief to hospitals.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Watchdog groups and healthcare advocates are raising serious concerns about conflicts of ...
With swift and utter clarity, the coronavirus pandemic is smashing the myth of U.S. individualism. We are not independent individuals as many of us like to think, making it because of our own strengths or ...
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 ...
Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the US government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. (By: John Whitehead, Mintpress News) I have never known any ...
“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 ...
The school privatization movement is not stopping as the country remains locked down. COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to slash education budgets due to the economic collapse caused by the outbreak, and ...
“This is why oversight is important. No matter when or who it hurts, big business and corporations will always try to cash in.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Small businesses filed class-action lawsuits against three large banks Monday, ...
Despite a recent study from Harvard showing strong evidence that people breathing air with more particulate matter have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19, the EPA has chosen to maintain old standards on ...
Local volunteer efforts across the country provide resources and free delivery to seniors, houseless communities and other vulnerable groups. Across the nation, people who are able to are volunteering to offer free delivery of food ...
President Donald Trump announced an upcoming immigration ban on Monday night, citing the COVID-19 outbreak and saying that the action will be temporary. Protecting Jobs “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as ...
Imagine your immune system as your body’s defense mechanism. Typically, it does a remarkable job of protecting you against invadersーmicroorganisms that cause disease. However, at times, the immune system falls short, letting an invader in, ...
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