“The scale of the economic catastrophe is breathtaking.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In a development described as “absolutely staggering,” the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims last ...
“This epidemic, pandemic, has laid bare the issues of disparity that have been so embedded in our country since its founding.” With millions of Americans ordered to socially distance and stay at home to prevent ...
Google’s move is merely the latest in a long line linking big tech companies ever more closely with the government and the security state. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) In the fight against COVID–19 (coronavirus), ...
“Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., officially dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race on Wednesday. He shared the news ...
At a time when the safest place for everyone to be is at home, those with no home are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, and more likely to experience major health complications and die. ...
“We now bear the full brunt of a healthcare system rendered dysfunctional after years of relentless funding cuts for public health, while generating obscene profits for corporate interests.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) A coalition ...
“A direct insult to the American taxpayers—of all political stripes—who want to make sure that their tax dollars are not squandered on wasteful boondoggles, incompetence, or political favors.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a ...
In a country that leads in slashing budgets and encouraging individualism, the top-down failure to respond to the coronavirus has been uniquely American in flavor. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Who is going to pay ...
Grammy-winning music superstar Lady Gaga is teaming up with the World Health Organization to raise money and awareness with a global televised special in support of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The Oscar-winning singer ...
“You have two good people and they’re arguing… I’m good at settling these arguments. So I may look into it in great detail, in detail and I’ll be able to figure it out very fast.” ...
“Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own.” In a 5-4 ruling along partisan lines, ...
In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Dr. Tedros ...
The move was taken by the head of state’s medical team as a precaution in the event that a ventilator is needed. This is a developing news story… please check back for possible updates… (By: ...
An alarming 75 percent of new or emerging diseases start in animals. As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States grow and the government scrambles to address the virus’s spread, it’s important to ...
“We need you to step up and stop the State of Wisconsin from putting hundreds of thousands of citizens at risk by requiring them to vote at the polls while this ugly pandemic spreads,” pleaded ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7 states failed to release a ...
The U.S, Italy, and Indonesia have the highest mortality rates from COVID-19, according to Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture. Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture (DKV) released the latest ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a number of questionable practices that have Yemenis fearing the Kingdom may be intentionally trying to spread the virus. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) The ...
ICA Farmville already has a reputation for overcrowding and poor sanitation. Last year the private ICE prison was hit with an outbreak of mumps, a classic disease of overcrowding and poor sanitation. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
As it turns out, Bernie Sanders has been right about pretty much everything. Maybe Democratic Party voters should be voting for him. Just a thought.
“This is about making sure that we’re able to conduct our democracy while we’re dealing with a pandemic.” COVID-19 has already disrupted several Democratic primary elections, forcing some states to postpone the contests until May. ...
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary ...
“There is a massive shortage of respirators and ventilators, which are the only systems keeping patients with severe cases of COVID-19 alive.” Healthcare professionals are on the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus and ...
“It’s a shot in the gut.” As coronavirus cripples America with New York at the epicenter of the outbreak, New York legislators and Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed to a state budget that will cut the ...
Youtube is promoting the hashtag #StayHome for the past several weeks as part of a global campaign urging people to stay home and watch videos during the COVID-19 pandemic. With much of the world staying ...
In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. (By: John Whitehead, ...
“A portrait of disaster. Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, ...
“For the wealthiest hospital corporation in the United States to show such disregard for the health and safety of its caregivers, is disgraceful and unconscionable.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Nurses at 15 hospitals across ...
“They’re taking political advantage of a crisis when they know it’s more difficult to respond.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to issue sweeping environmental rollbacks, including the termination of Obama-era ...
Advocates for homeschooling and other forms of public school privatization want you to believe the pandemic has a silver lining—they’re wrong. In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when ...
‘We Will Continue’ It has become near universal wisdom by this point in the COVID-19 pandemic that social distancing limits the spread of the disease. Some pastors, however, have continued to hold service, even drawing ...
The survey was taken as Congress debated a $4.5 trillion corporate bailout amid the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) New polling out Wednesday backdropped by the continuing coronavirus outbreak shows that most of ...
Women in the U.S. May Soon Be Eligible for the Draft On March 24 a Congressional commission on military service issued a series of recommendations regarding the future of America’s Military, including a recommendation that ...
The US Congress just passed a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus last week, but it is already looking ahead to the next stage of economic relief. When lawmakers negotiated the previous relief package, they said further ...
Europe is being called the epicenter of the disease and particularly Western Europe where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain nationalizing the country’s industry to a total quarantine in France ...
Citizen Truth talked to Fulbright grant recipients in Brasil and Spain about their unique situations and the different ways the crisis is affecting their lives and the lives of others in their respective countries. The ...
“Taking action cost me my job,” said Chris Smalls. “Because I tried to stand up for something that’s right, the company decided to retaliate against me.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New York Attorney General ...
“This is not about fighting disinformation. The Hungarian government is taking advantage of a health emergency to accelerate its already extensive control over news and information in the country.” Yesterday, the Hungarian Parliament passed a ...
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
As the COVID-19 epidemic closes public schools, standards, testing, and charters grow increasingly irrelevant. “The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a phone call. Oropeza is a public ...
“One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Labor rights advocates on Monday urged the public to show support and ...
“I think they are surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are ...
As of Sunday night, the United States has 143,055 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 2,513 deaths. At a Sunday night press conference, President Donald Trump announced a long list of social distancing guidelines will be ...
Since 1984, Dr. Tony Fauci has run the NIAID, the $5.9 billion US government agency responsible for "leading research to understand, treat, and prevent infectious diseases." While COVID-19 engulfs us, he has become a talk ...
Grammy-winning rock icon Bob Dylan released a surprise song at the end of last week — a meditation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, through the lends of American political and pop-cultural history. The ...
The Food & Drug Administration has authorized the use of two drugs championed by President Donald Trump as a means to fight coronavirus. Emergency Authorization Given On Sunday night the FDA issued an emergency authorization ...
Scientists and pharmaceutical companies are racing to produce the most effective medicines and vaccines to fight the pandemic. As the New Coronavirus (COVID-9) continues to infect and kill more people worldwide, scientists and pharmaceutical companies ...