Although the new HBO miniseries “The Plot Against America” is based on a book that was published in 2004 and takes place in the 1940s, it seems to have glaring parallels to today’s political climate. ...
“It’s unthinkable to extend these spying powers to the same agencies that have so often sidestepped safeguards and ignored Americans’ fundamental privacy rights.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Ahead of a vote that could take ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
“If you are at higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19 because of your age or because you have a serious long-term health problem, it is extra important for you to take actions to reduce ...
As citizens in the U.S. heed warnings to distance themselves from others to avoid contracting coronavirus, the movie industry took a hit over the weekend with record low box office sales. In just one week, ...
Google’s description of its Coronavirus efforts falls short of the president’s claims. Verily, a Google sister company under the Alphabet Inc. umbrella, is trying to assist Americans who might be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. ...
The House of Representatives worked through Saturday to pass an emergency relief bill designed to provide increased Corvid-19 testing and paid sick leave for American workers. Although that sounds great in theory, beneath the fine ...
As coronavirus panic grips the world, concern over government overreach is growing given the involvement of US intelligence agencies in classified meetings for planning the U.S.’ coronavirus response. (By: Whitney Webb, Mintpress News) As the ...
It’s fair to make discourse about America’s response to the spread of COVID-19 political in nature because it already is inextricably linked to politics. Most of our world is, whether we choose to acknowledge it ...
US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus. (By: Ariel Gold & Medea Benjamin, ...
Given that Manning still faces a $256,000 fine for refusing to testify about WikiLeaks to a grand jury, said one reporter, “she will now struggle with destitution and poverty, but at least she will no ...
The Democratic nomination has yet to be bestowed upon former Vice President Joe Biden, but his campaign is already adjusting course to take on President Donald Trump. The Democratic nomination has yet to be bestowed ...
“We live in a world where 33% of Americans put off medical treatment last year, and we have $1,133 expense just for testing for the coronavirus.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Democratic firebrand Rep. Katie ...
The Supreme Court recently heard what could become a landmark case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The concept of separation between church and state is a key part of the American democratic experiment. The ...
“We believe the available research supports the conclusion that a program of Medicare for All (M4A) could be considerably less expensive than the current system, reducing waste and profiteering inherent in the current system, and ...
Manning’s legal team said her actions “evidence the strength of her convictions, as well as the profound harm she continues to suffer as a result of her ‘civil’ confinement.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) American ...
In another win for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court granted an emergency request forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. In another win for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court granted an ...
“The Coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action. The European Union disapproves of the fact that the US decision to impose a travel ban ...
“We will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) As an eruption of coronavirus cases in Italy strains the country’s healthcare system past its ...
The case of Al-Hathloul and the other women’s rights activists on trial in Saudi Arabia is a tremendous embarrassment for MBS, who has been putting an enormous effort into convincing his Western allies that he ...
The security situation in the world is deteriorating year by year, day by day. But wars and conflicts nowadays are not only deaths and damage but business and money for involved participants. The Stockholm International ...
“In Mexico it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed.” On March 9, the day after International Women’s ...
America’s relationship with the Taliban has always been determined by how useful they are at advancing US interests in the region and the Trump administration’s recent efforts to make “peace” with the group are no ...
“We can actually go to war and not ask one question, but to prevent this kind of a disease, we have to say, ‘How can we pay for it?'” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Speaking ...
For the first time, there were as many female leads in family films as male leads, according to a new study. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media released these findings regarding films from ...
“Jails are particularly more frightening because of massive turnover. More than half of the people in jail are only in there for two to three days. So, there are people coming in from the outside ...
“South America is no longer to follow the resource nationalist project of Evo Morales; this is Elon Musk’s South America, a place for the neo-conquistadors to make money and leave behind them social carnage.” Elon ...
America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of drug prohibition, with marijuana leading the way and a psychedelic decriminalization movement rapidly gaining steam. America shows signs of emerging from the century-long shadow of ...
“It’s pretty simple, if we send children home from school because their hair looks a certain way, or otherwise ban certain hairstyles associated with a particular race, that is discrimination. This is not only unacceptable ...
“The establishment wing of the party didn’t fall into line behind Biden despite the fact that he’d put Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon in his cabinet. They did it because of that. This is who they ...
“The actions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Governor of the State of Alabama are reprehensible…” The State of Alabama executed Nathaniel Woods for the 2004 murders of three Birmingham police officers despite court ...
“I helped lead the opposition to these agreements, Joe Biden supported those agreements,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “And that is a fundamental difference about our approach toward the trade union movement and towards the needs ...
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has quarantined himself due to fears that he could have contracted coronavirus from an individual at a conference he attended. Ted Cruz Quarantined The senator issued a statement on Sunday ...
As Naomi Klein laid out in her bestseller “Shock Doctrine,” the wealthy elite use the confusion caused by economic and other disasters to quickly force through pro-free-market legislation. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) As coronavirus ...
Whether you’re a progressive or a moderate Democrat who only wants to see Donald Trump defeated in November, Bernie Sanders, not Joe Biden, is the imperative choice for the Democratic Party come the fall.
The movement to revillage our modern world seeks to combat mental illness, housing and climate disasters. Our current ways of living are life-threatening and unsustainable. Our increasingly individualized society is contributing to epidemic levels of loneliness and isolation, depression, anxiety and other mental health ...
“Never has white-collar crime gone so ignored.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Prosecutions of white-collar criminals by the U.S. Justice Department plunged to an all-time low in January, according to a study published just days after President ...
“MSNBC pundits likened the Bernie campaign to Nazi Germany on air weeks ago. Yesterday, someone brought a Nazi flag to a Bernie rally.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Cable news network MSNBC came under fire from progressives ...
Trump defended his administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and spoke about the Democratic primary at his first town hall of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump held his first town hall of the 2020 ...
Most people would be surprised to learn that the US designed the universal healthcare systems in Germany and Japan following the war. Here is how it happened there and why it didn't happen here.
There’s something about a woman, a man will say. . But, a woman will say there’s something about being a woman. . Elizabeth Warren, in particular. . It might have been Jon Stewart’s DAILY SHOW, where ...
As foreign countries battle for their vested interests, innocent Syrians will continue to suffer. Russia and Turkey have fueled war crimes in Syria, as an independent report from the United Nations (U.N.), -founded commission recently ...
“People are tired of these kind of political investigations,” Romney said, “and would hope that if there is something of significance that needs to be evaluated, it would be done by perhaps the F.B.I. and ...
“We the People have driven coronavirus research and development—not pharma corporations.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) More than 70 organizations on Thursday demanded that the Trump administration forbid monopolies or price-gouging on all vaccines and ...
“At a certain point there needs to be a serious and empathetic conversation about Biden’s relatively frequent, confused, irritable inability to complete coherent thoughts. It’s not about a stutter. Watching him speak a mere four ...
“Killing this African American man, whose case appears to have been strongly mishandled by the courts, could produce an irreversible injustice. Are you willing to allow a potentially innocent man to be executed?” (By: Jessica ...
Since the start of U.S.-led Defender Europe 2020 military exercise in February, peace movement activists have criticized the maneuvers and called them a provocation. The exercises are expected to last about five months, taking place ...
The race is now effectively a two-candidate contest between Biden, who as of Thursday has 596 delegates, and Sanders, who has 531. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary, leaving only ...