“Economists at the world’s largest funder of fossil fuels are warning that ‘we cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened.'” Economists at JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest financier ...
“We know that the first four years of a child’s life are the most important years of human development, so it is unconscionable that in the wealthiest country in the world, we do not properly ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
The media hysteria over Russian interference in the 2016 election has directly led to the current moment where the topic is often weaponized for purely political purposes, and it leads to more misinformation and confusion ...
It is starting to look like the race to secure the Democratic presidential nomination is over and a major paradigm shift for the party is underway. Turn Out The Lights The party looks to be ...
“This administration will not stop until it takes away all workers’ rights to form and join a union.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump on Thursday quietly issued a memo granting Defense Secretary Mark ...
“If they are allowed to extradite him from here, they will, and they will lock him up until he dies, which probably won’t be very long, just for being a journalist and informing the public ...
Despite protests of historic proportions fueled by anger over corruption and a brutal right-wing crackdown, the unrest in Colombia has garnered remarkably little international media attention compared to Venezuela. (By: Whitney Webb & Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
If we continue to burn coal, we have no hope of managing changes to the climate. But the complexity of the climate crisis is highlighted by the fact that burning coal actually hides its true ...
The concerns follow new research suggesting that the climate crisis could completely wipe out all of the world’s coral reef habitats by 2100. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Australian scientists and conservationists warned in the Guardian Thursday that ...
“The Court finds that the conditions of detention in CBP holding cells, especially those that preclude sleep over several nights, are presumptively punitive and violate the Constitution.” An Arizona-based US judge ruled against Customs and ...
“We hope this well lead into cease-fire and intra-Afghan talks.” A temporary US– Afghan Taliban peace agreement has come to fruition after months of negotiation. The deal, which takes effect Friday, includes a weeklong “reduction ...
“We’re not treated very well by India, but I happen to like Prime Minister Modi a lot. And he told me we’ll have 7 million people between the airport and the event. And the stadium, ...
“Out of all the candidates, Bernie is the only one to advocate for the democratic will of the people.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Sen. Bernie Sanders was the lone voice on Wednesday night’s debate ...
“We have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth and income. Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. That’s wrong, that’s immoral.” In a heated debate ahead of the Nevada Democratic ...
“I don’t know really if the target of the sanctions are the politicians or our patients. We are dealing with cancer here and cancer doesn’t stop, so we cannot stop.” The economic sanctions that the ...
“The EPA’s proposed rule will make it more likely that people who live and work on or near farms will be sprayed with dangerous pesticides.” Environmental experts are sounding the alarm against the Trump administration’s ...
“Today, Trump granted clemency to tax cheats, Wall Street crooks, billionaires, and corrupt government officials. Meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. This is what a broken and ...
“I remain hopeful and believe that music can serve to bring us together as a nation.” A new documentary about the 39th President of the United States is set to open the Tribeca Film Festival ...
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) Early last week, ...
“Unpriced risk was the main cause of the Great Recession in 2007-2008.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New research published Monday warns that extreme weather driven by the climate crisis could bring about an economic recession ...
“Winning good jobs at Walmart, the country’s largest corporate employer, is the gateway to changing the service economy as a whole.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Walmart workers issued a “wake up call” to Alice ...
She takes bundler money from a Cargill big-wig. The politerati just can’t get over how good Amy Klobuchar is at losing. A longtime favorite of many Beltway pundits for her high approval rating in her home state of Minnesota, ...
Attendees at the conference discussed the Coronavirus outbreak, Libya, the Iran nuclear deal, and other topics. On February 16, the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 held in the Germany city of Munich wrapped up ...
An Alabama State Representative introduced a bill that would mandate vasectomies in some men as a way to protest Alabama’s strict abortion laws. On Thursday February 13 Alabama State Representative Rolanda Hollis (D) introduced House ...
Bloomberg’s loan forgiveness proposal is far more modest than other Democratic candidates. Former Republican New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg has released a plan for higher education in his bid to become the ...
“Bottled water companies should not be allowed to extract an essential public resource and sell it for private profit.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Advocacy groups are encouraging voters in the state of Washington to pressure ...
LGBTQ visibility on television may seem like the norm now, but it wasn’t always that way, as explored on the new documentary, “Visible: Out on Television.” LGBTQ visibility on television may seem like the norm ...
Amid a surge in military operations in Idlib governorate, Turkey has been gradually escalating military provocations, creating obstacles to the advance of the Syrian Arab Army. Currently, Ankara decided to not even try to hide ...
An intervention is a very emotional and stressful experience to go through if you are trying to get someone to go get help, are they the best method though?
“Indigenous people see what’s happening to us and see what’s happening to our territory and our pristine waters – and to our people on the ground, having semiautomatic weapons aimed at us. People are responding ...
The Education Department called American universities “multi-billion dollar, multinational enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue.” The US Department of Education launched investigations into Harvard and Yale over ...
‘Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words’ (By: Common Dreams Staff) More than 1,100 former US Department of Justice officials called on Attorney General William P. Barr on ...
“They’re our ancestors. They’re our remnants of who we are as a people, throughout this whole area. And it’s our obligation, it’s our duty to do what is necessary to protect that.” Construction of President ...
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive ...
Mike Bloomberg is trying to buy the Democratic Party nomination. What’s worse, the Democratic Party establishment appears content to let him do so.
The Beat Bernie 2020 PAC is insisting on keeping its members’ and donors’ identities a secret, due to what they call “a credible fear of threats and backlash from ardent Bernie supporters.” (By: Alan MacLeod, ...
“While there are serious prospects for legalization at the statehouse in a handful of state this year—think Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Rhode Island—a number of other states are seeing marijuana legalization or medical marijuana initiative campaigns ...
“The USDA’s own data shows that the rates of fraud and abuse in the SNAP program are quite low. The truth is that SNAP is a very effective government program. It serves the people who ...
“For most people, these policies will further increase in their cost of living, while their wages remain stagnant.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) On the heels of reports that U.S. household debt hit $14 trillion ...
Corporations came to Virginia schools offering career and tech training—but local teachers and parents are wary that they put profits before students. The national discussion about the movement to privatize America’s public schools has mostly focused on ...
“I don’t want to think about it.” A Kansas resident is facing 25 years in prison for growing a single marijuana plant. Larry Burgess, a cancer survivor, turned to marijuana when prescription drugs failed to ...
Israeli-Palestinian talks are still on hold. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has delivered a dramatic condemnation of the U.S.-drafted Middle East peace plan. No country, except Israel, has approved of the proposals at any public forum. ...
“Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Ten years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster sent hundreds of millions of gallons of oil across the Gulf of Mexico, ...
“The IMF is anyway very predictable when it comes to their policy recommendations. It’s almost always a combination of austerity, privatizations, revisiting the currency regime.” On Wednesday, the Lebanese government requested the International Monetary Fund ...
On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian ...
“There is much angst in the American mind that Mohammed Allawi, once confirmed as prime minister by the Iraqi parliament, may not only restructure U.S.-Iraqi relations, but eventually take the wind out of the sails ...
The party is using different tools to achieve the same goal as 2016—sidelining Sanders. Yogi Berra, the great Yankees catcher, had the memorable line, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Bernie Sanders supporters might ...
“Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives. They want to see more rifts and more chaos in society. ...
“No one should be harassed and forced to spy on their religious community. The FBI agents knew I was vulnerable and that I needed to fly to see my family.” The US Supreme Court will ...
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