(David Swanson) If we were to look beyond words to actions, there would be no doubt that virtually all U.S. politicians have, in effect, taken the Trump/Kissinger view of U.S. troops for as long as ...
During the busiest periods, the process will slow due to COVID-19’s constraints. For the estimated 50 million Americans who will vote at a polling place this fall, delays and long lines will likely surface sooner ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, the charter industry added to systemic inequities that afflict Black communities. The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic ...
Lithuania continues to buy American military equipment despite assurances that Belarus has no cause for Lithuanian military buildup concern. Economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many European countries to consider cancelling or ...
With isolation being the key contributor to an increase in drug-related overdose deaths, celebrating National Recovery Month is more important than ever.
AFRICOM acknowledges 46 bombings of claimed militant targets this year, while critics warn that harm to innocent civilians continues to fuel the very terrorism such strikes are purportedly meant to destroy. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Russia has declassified the video footage of the largest nuclear explosion of all time, the Arctic detonation of the so-called “Tsar Bomba” in 1961. The explosion was 1,500 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
A legal stipulation preserves the images, which could become evidence proving who won the presidential election in a major battleground state. In November 2018, Florida faced its biggest recount nightmare since the 2000 presidential election. ...
On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet ...
Does the typical CEO of a major company add $20 million of value to the company that employs them or could they hire someone at one-tenth of this price who would do just as much ...
Our richest corporations are much to blame for the free-market “winner take all” philosophy that has caused over half of our nation to try to survive without adequate health care and life savings. (Common Dreams) When Dr. ...
The United States has a long history of meddling in the political affairs of other nations and using shadowy military and espionage techniques as a means of overthrowing governments seen as being a threat to ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Perhaps the most significant of the many weak points in human cognition is our persistent tendency to overlook the absences of things. To notice what’s there but not what isn’t there. We notice ...
The largest Wall Street bank is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service for the exclusive right to solicit postal banking customers. (Common Dreams) Imagine if activists and elected officials were clamoring for emergency ...
#MeToo movement is far from being over. By reporting on these injustices, we hope to bring these issues into the sunlight, where they can breathe in the open air and be seen in all of ...
The last four years have been deeply traumatizing to millions of Americans as we have watched our nation in the stranglehold of a maniacal, dictatorial and compulsively deceptive president. But it is worth examining the ...
“We’re human, we have real feelings and I’m glad that we got a chance to get in a room and talk with one another and not just cross paths and say good luck in your ...
From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it. ...
In the COVID era, growing food locally has become more essential than ever. When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she’s in the middle of placing an ...
Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University—looked at raw evidence ...
Paul and his wife were confronted while protests heat up across the country. Protesters demanding racial justice confronted Republican Senator Rand Paul and his wife as police escorted them back to his hotel after the ...
The study comes amid unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the latest high-profile police shooting of a Black man and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an alleged far-right militia member. (By: Julia Conley, Common ...
A new comedy series from Hulu snatches a buzzword of our times—”Woke”—tackling racial inequality that’s partly inspired by police harassment. Lamorne Morris (“New Girl”) stars as a Keef Knight, a self-identified non-controversial black cartoonist on ...
The U.S. presidential election has so far involved and will undoubtedly continue to involve a clash over voting strategy for the left. A significant array of left commentators, for example, Cornel West, AOC, Angela Davis, ...
“We knew this would happen. Lake Charles and Cameron Parish are petrochemical industry epicenters. The plants, export terminals, refineries, oil tank farms are ticking time bombs every hurricane season.” This is a developing news story… ...
No other president or presidential candidate than Donald Trump has so openly courted far-right violence. (Common Dreams) The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention featured Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple famous for ...
US Cyber Command and the Pentagon are availing themselves of the Russian meddling narratives and added a few others to justify the creation of a cyberwar army with international and domestic capabilities via the National ...
Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled “To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and “If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The ...
When it comes to ending the scourge of Donald Trump at the ballot box, John Roberts is not your friend, let alone your savior. As election day approaches, voting-rights lawsuits are heating up across the ...
Marijuana is on the ballot in South Dakota in November this year. This is a state that has the dubious distinction of being the only one to twice defeat a medical marijuana initiative. And it ...
British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s role in the Saudi-led war against Yemen. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A British soldier has been arrested for opposing the United Kingdom’s ...
“It’s something students are definitely going to want to talk about when they come back to school,” Samantha Garrett told me while schools were closed for the summer in Milwaukee, and the community was grappling with the ...
Unconfirmed reports have linked the shooter to a militia group with videos shared on social media showing him walking by police after the shooting. In the third night of uprising and protest following the police ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) Julian Assange’s partner Stella Moris was able to visit him with their children at Belmarsh prison for the first time since March of this year, and reports that his physical condition has deteriorated ...
“While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed ...
Woke capitalists are not socialists in disguise, they represent a very real and dangerous side of contemporary capitalism. (Common Dreams) This month Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of the asset management firm BlackRock, was ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
“If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~ Julian Assange “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” ~ P C Hodgell (Caitlin Johnstone) Human life ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump adviser Jared Kushner are hitting the road in an attempt to strong-arm more Arab states into normalizing relations with Israel, turning their backs on Palestine and isolating Iran. ...
In the rush to vote absentee as the pandemic broke, they didn’t fill out forms to get a mailed-out ballot for the presidential election too. On August 20, the Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that they would send ...
“We cannot have the specter of a disrupted election – an election that doesn’t count all votes – hovering over the election season.” Donning a blue US Postal Service mask, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faced ...
Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread of Ebola. Dr. Báez was one of 165 Cuban doctors of the Henry ...
Joe Biden rates highly with Democratic Party voters on relatability and “get off my lawn” energy. (Photo Credit: Jay Godwin/LBJ Library) Joe Biden began his acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National ...
A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more. (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Diana ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) To oppose power is to set yourself on a collision course with despair. You set out, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, charging full speed at the man all set to overthrow the status quo, ...
“Jacob Blake’s 3 SONS were IN THE CAR he was getting into when Kenosha Police shot him tonight. They saw a cop shoot their father. They will be traumatized forever.” Unrest erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin ...
Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z are weighing in on the plight of black men and women in the United States — through a collaboration on a new song entitled “Entrepreneur”. After the death of George Floyd ...
The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. (Common Dreams) A national political nominating convention, ...