“If he retains stock in companies that are investing in the development of a vaccine,” said government watchdog CREW, “we can’t be confident of the integrity of any process in which he is involved.” (By: ...
Countries around the world are starting to ease restrictions in an attempt to return to some degree of normalcy. Countries around the world are starting to ease restrictions in an attempt to return to normalcy, ...
After chief of intelligence of the Libyan Government of the National Accord (GNA) Abdulkader Al-Tuhami died under mysterious circumstances, a number of media outlets who happened to be affiliated to Turkey downplayed the importance of ...
After publicly praising two foreign nurses, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to increase the amount they pay for healthcare. One of the crown jewels of the United Kingdom is its National Health Service, a ...
“This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Floodwaters unleashed by a dam failure in central Michigan have reached a Dow Chemical facility and Superfund site, the company ...
This is part 5 of a multi-article series about the COVID-19 Shark Tank initiative, focusing on seroprevalence and serosurveillance. Click here to read the previous articles , Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 ...
“For the President to threaten federal funding in the midst of a pandemic over a state exercising its authority to run elections in a safe and legal manner is inappropriate and outrageous.” President Donald Trump ...
On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how they should speak about ...
“We knew the number of applicants would be high, but we were just overwhelmed.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $125 million relief fund last month for undocumented immigrants and the first disbursements began Monday, ...
On May 13, the Senate failed to pass an amendment to the “Freedom Act” that would have required a search warrant for law enforcement to access a person’s browser information or internet search history. Freedom ...
Rather than accept responsibility for our declining competitiveness, the US is shifting responsibility by starting a new Cold War with China.
“Hoyer does not actually have a problem with primary challengers, he has a problem with progressives.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Progressives and climate activists expressed frustration with Democratic Party leadership after Politico reported Tuesday that House ...
What complicates Russia’s relationship with Syria, which has sometimes been referred to as a Russian client state, is that two strong-willed, highly self-opinionated leaders are also involved here—Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Syria Bashar ...
This is part 4 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank collaborative involving NIH and BARDA, discussing differences between the U.S., S. Korea and Sweden. Part 1 click here, Part 2 click here Part ...
The U.S. government is certainly in the running for worst handling of coronavirus on earth. Where did this grotesque incompetence and indifference to human lives come from so suddenly? What if it was always there? ...
Just three years ago, Americans had a neutral view of China (and nine years ago it was strongly favorable). Today, the same polls show that 66 percent of Americans dislike the country. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
For nearly a decade now, a collection of former heads of state, high political figures, businessmen, and cultural figures have been working to reform drug policy at the national and international levels. Known as the Global ...
“My commitment to both [accessibility and transparency] is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it.” Rebekah Jones was the head of the data team overseeing Florida’s coronavirus public dashboard, a website ...
“Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) While giving fossil fuel companies access to relief funds ostensibly meant for small businesses struggling due to ...
This is part 3 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank collaborative involving NIH and BARDA Part 1 click here Part 2 click here BARDA’S Involvement Dr Gary Dr Disbrow – Acting Director of ...
“His office was investigating — at my request – Trump’s phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to Saudi Arabia.” On Friday evening, President Donald Trump informed Speaker of the House Nancy ...
A state where schools experienced deep adversities before COVID-19 can show the nation a pathway forward when schools reopen. “I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a ...
Trump considers himself above the law. (Common Dreams) Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has allowed large corporations to run rampant, exploit people, and get away with it. Trump considers himself above the law, boldly claiming, ...
Farm animals have less legal protection than other confined animals, such as those living in laboratories or zoos. In January 2020, an estimated 10,000 chickens perished in a fire just west of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ...
“This budget proposes to undo key commitments to comprehensive coverage at exactly the moment when we need it most and resolving this public health emergency.” With the economy in tumult, unemployment numbers rising, and many ...
Last year, a government commission called for the U.S. to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to ensure American hegemony in artificial intelligence. Now, many ...
President Trump has revealed a plan to mobilize the US military to deliver mass vaccinations across the country, coupled with Operation Warp Speed, a “Manhattan project-style” race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine. (By: Raul Diego, ...
This article is part 2 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank Initiative, to read part one click here Collaboration is Key The most productive approach to solve challenging and critical issues, according to ...
A new study found that in the past eight weeks alone, the country’s super wealthy have added a further $368.8 billion to their already enormous fortunes. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) America’s billionaires have seen ...
On Thursday, May 7, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called Dr. Francis Collins – Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Gary Disbrow – Acting Director of Biomedical Advanced ...
While the European Union imposed fifteen conditions for the opening of the accession negotiations with Albania, instead of working on those conditions the Albanian premier Edi Rama recently proposed the plan of legalizing the cultivation ...
“Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s EPA Thursday after the ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress ...
History is made, not decreed, which is why on May 11th, activists from dozens of different countries launched Progressive International, a global initiative with a mission to unite, organize and mobilize progressive forces. (Common Dreams) ...
Since 1932, Kansas has remained a stalwart Republican torchbearer — the state has elected solely Republican US senators over those 88 years. This year could be different. Since 1932, Kansas has remained a stalwart Republican ...
“If the Trump administration approaches vaccine development as it has Covid-19 prevention, testing and treatment, the world may be in for years of more extraordinary pain,” said Public Citizen. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government ...
“[The] ASIO bill amendment [is] one more step towards a totalitarian state.” On Wednesday, the Australian government put forward a bill in parliament to give more power to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) including ...
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict Yasser Aslan used to teach programming. With the war and ever dwindling economy, Yasser, the only breadwinner in the family of six, had to look for additional sources ...
Washington has made it a priority to radically overhaul the military in double time, designating weapons manufacturers as “essential” services during the pandemic. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The economy has crashed. A nationwide pandemic ...
“It wasn’t until checkpoints come about, then all of a sudden we’re a focus, a center of attention. You know we’ve been wanting assistance for test kits, we’ve been wanting assistance with (personal protective equipment), ...
Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering ...
The worst-case coronavirus scenario is not the mass deaths it is causing. It is that people are being led to accept mass death - to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 ...
“We’re facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership ...
The largest solar project in U.S. history was just approved. On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) gave approval for a 690-megawatt (MW) Gemini Solar + ...
The new documentary “Alice Street” explores an iconic mural project, the high-rise that covered it up and the communities it catalyzed to action. “Love, arts, music.” These three words are painted in capital letters across ...
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third ...
The House is scheduled to vote on the $3 trillion economic relief bill Friday, but even if it passes, it faces challenges from the Republican-controlled Senate, according to POLITICO. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ...
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that ...
“Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture ...
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