Intense fighting initiated by the terrorist group of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its proxies continues in Idlib governorate. According to the General Command of the Syrian Armed Forces, the government army counterattacked militants concentrated around ...
In the past decade, new technologies have transformed the way that people learn. The world of education changed in the past decade. New technologies transformed the way that people learn, standards for what is taught ...
“Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society… With his death, not only my family lost a loved one; but the whole world, and ...
Chipotle’s fine was the largest in state history and the latest in a series of industry labor abuses. Qdoba, a Chipotle competitor, and franchisees of Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and Burger King have all been hit with ...
Although the risk of full-scale war with Iran has significantly diminished, there are several other tools Iran could use against the U.S. If Iran has come to play second fiddle to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...
Warren’s plan was criticized for giving the state the power to censor and criminalize internet content and for failing to define ‘disinformation.’ On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign released a statement detailing her plan ...
The three sites chosen for the news bases, Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja just eight miles from its border. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Less than a week ...
“We want what all sovereign nations want – to be free from corruption, free from nepotism, free from foreign interventionism and free to decide what our country’s future will look like.” “We want what all ...
“Chevron is using its limitless resources to crush defendants and win this case through might rather than merit.” Chevron is waging a scorched earth legal campaign against the environmental lawyer who won a multi-billion suit ...
“The pressure is working,” said Indivisible. “We need to hear from Bolton and the other witnesses who know exactly how egregious Trump’s abuse of power was.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump fired ...
“Who are we bombing? Why? What will it yield but more war?” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The U.S. military dropped a record-breaking number of bombs on Afghanistan in 2019, the Air Force announced Tuesday, ...
The ruling will give the United States government increased power to reject green card applications even if there is only a suspicion that the applicants may need financial assistance in some form. The United States ...
“The most essential journalism of every era,” says the NSA whistleblower, “is precisely that which a government attempts to silence.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an op-ed published Sunday night by the Washington Post, National Security ...
In contrast to initial reports dismissing injuries among American service members, 34 American troops suffered traumatic brain injuries from Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq earlier this month. On January 8 Iran ...
“I say this with love to the Grammys, because you really need to know this. Every year, y’all be killing us, man. I’m speaking for all the artists here, producers, executives. The amount of time ...
“Epstein was hiding in plain sight. We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing, but we had no one that was – no legal aspect that would go after him. They ...
Patients often tell us that they consume cannabis as alternative and natural methods to pharmaceuticals – specifically pertaining to sleep assistance, pain relief and anxiety control. Currently, the medical use of cannabis is legalized in ...
“Leaked 2018 audio recording of president was released by legal team of Lev Parnas, close associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. ‘You know, [Sanders] basically says we’re getting screwed on trade,’ said Trump. ‘And ...
“Film festivals play a critical role in shaping our culture, which is why representation and access is so critical.” It seems the renowned Sundance Film Festival is being added to the growing list of venerable ...
What Senate Democrats really need right now is talented orator. Someone who could say something like this.
Turkey’s ruling party is attempting to introduce a law that would grant amnesty to rapists as long as they marry their victim, four years after a similar bill ignited domestic and international backlash. At the ...
The U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qassem Soleimani and refusal to leave Iraq is about protecting Americans, but a little known Iraqi parliamentary session reveals how China increasingly strong ties to Baghdad may ...
Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities as those with capital in cities such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up ...
As we welcome the new year, it’s worth taking a look back at last year to ponder how far the world has come on marijuana law reform—and how far it has to go. The wall ...
Brandon Lipps, an Under-Secretary at the USDA, announced a rule change in the federal school lunch program, changing the requirements in place since The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The rule changes allow that portions ...
“In Bolivia, if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security.” – Evo Morales It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on ...
Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its person of the year last December but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to ...
“This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the ...
Although I was once a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton, I followed my progressive heart and felt the Bern in 2016. Now I struggle with the pressure to "Vote Blue No Matter Who." Hillary Clinton's recent comments ...
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published a tranche of documents implicating Africa’s richest women in mismanagement of Angola’s state oil company. Newly-leaked documents revealed Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan President José Eduardo ...
With the right incentives, you can change people's behavior. We require transformative societal change. This article discusses the challenges as well as how people can be incentivized to change to solve the climate crisis.
The seven countries that would reportedly be included in the expanded travel ban are Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. President Donald Trump announced at the World Economic Forum that his administration is ...
“McConnell’s opposition to the bill comes after he had an exceptional quarter of fundraising from executives and PACs of pharmaceutical companies that could be forced to reduce the prices of their drugs under Medicare if ...
“Steve Mnuchin thinks Greta Thunberg needs an economic education, where she can take courses like ‘strip-mining Sears assets 103’ and ‘forging signatures to take homes away from people 204′” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin mocked teenage ...
Think for a moment how different Iran and the Middle East’s fate would have been if the CIA, along with the British, did not orchestrate a military coup to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Iran. ...
A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS ...
Within hours of a video file being sent by WhatsApp to Bezos “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’s phone began, continuing and escalating for months.” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) ...
At an MLK event in New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave another reminder of the battle waging inside of the Democratic Party to move it further left. “We don’t have a left party in the ...
Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they ...
As citizens, we only get a tiny glimpse into our who our presidential candidates really are. Information warfare is waged by campaigns and the media, who seem to all have an agenda. Yet we are ...
Pete Buttigieg shot into the Democratic primary like a rising star, but criticism from the progressive left may be bringing him down to Earth. Pete Buttigieg, the former two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana and ...
“Charging journalists with criminal activity based on interactions with sources sends a chilling message to reporters working on sensitive stories…” The Brazilian government charged Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his reporting on leaked ...
Will a damaging report from the GAO fall into obscurity now that Republicans are trying to fast track the Trump impeachment process? President Donald Trump broke the law by withholding $214 million from Ukraine for ...
“I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him…” Hillary Clinton said that “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders and refused to commit to supporting him if he wins the Democratic nomination ...
Critics so far have given Apple TV’s new immigrant-focused series ‘Little Amerca’ rave reviews for its portrayal of the immigrant experience. Amidst the heated immigration debate in the U.S., a new series entitled “Little America” ...
“We’ve gotten past the symbolic stage. We’re standing up for ourselves,” said Bryan Kibler who coined the term Second Amendment Sanctuaries. Since the Virginia state legislature changed to become Democrat-controlled in the last election the ...
“A March 1968 FBI memo, from the month before King’s death, discussed ways to ‘prevent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.’” The Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
The start of the World Economic Forum coincides with a new Oxfam report on global income inequality, which found that the richest 1% now hold more wealth than 6.9 billion people. Climate change and extreme ...