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 ...
How we ultimately respond to the coronavirus pandemic could tell us a lot about what will happen when the climate crisis hits in full force.
“The bottom line is that the Taliban (and Pakistan, which mentors it) would see that the political ascendance of the Taliban in Kabul, whenever it is due, happens with international legitimacy.” In an extraordinary statement ...
Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly. I’m writing this at 585,000 worldwide active cases, 26,000 deaths, and with only China and Korea seemingly ...
Assange’s treatment in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
“I am now self-isolating.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, just weeks after cavalierly declaring that he was still “shaking hands with ...
“This is the largest financial hit that we will have ever taken in the history of our agency.” The impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been mostly represented by money lost by businesses and lives ...
“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March ...
“America may be witnessing just the beginning of the dire situation as economists anticipate the unemployment rate will continue to climb.” US stock markets closed Thursday with their third consecutive day on the rise on ...
America’s farmworkers deserve better. Farmworkers, farmers and their organizations around the country have been singing the same tune for years on the urgent need for immigration reform. That harmony turns to discord as soon as ...
“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real,” said Joe ...
“There’s no doubt that the prospect of an enormous public backlash is what made the difference.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government watchdog Public Citizen celebrated Wednesday afternoon as pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences backed off ...
“Obviously helping certain enterprises is important, so I’m not opposed to industry aid. But the terms and conditions matter, and based on what I’m seeing, I don’t believe there will be meaningful restrictions on this ...
“Some of those who are hardest hit but the economic turmoil are retirees and those who are, or were, planning to retire soon.” Most Americans have not yet experienced the health care impacts of COVID-19 ...
“It’s not a bailout for the coronavirus. It’s a bailout for twelve years of corporate irresponsibility.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) As details of the Senate’s coronavirus stimulus plan slowly trickled in Wednesday, progressive critics ...
“Being a good citizen is being a good neighbor—so what do ‘good neighbors’ look like in the time of panic buying, hand sanitizer, and physical avoidance?” As we create “social distance” to protect ourselves and ...
“They decimated my entire town. To me, this is just a drop in the bucket for what should be happening to PG&E.” Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary ...
“How can we best help people connect the dots between capitalism, growth, debt, bailouts, war, injustice and fragility? And what alternative narratives can we present for a system focused on better, not bigger?” Let’s be ...
“Uncertainties about the human mind loom large,” she wrote. “Even as some puzzles get resolved, others emerge. And those perennial gaps in knowledge intersect with differing opinions about how far, and in what ways, mental ...
While the mass media is focused on statistics of the spread of coronavirus, the countries closing their borders and declaring quarantines, and ordinary people emptying grocery shelves, those whose lives were already a total nightmare ...
Citizen Truth’s William Bacha spoke to Italian and Spanish citizens about their personal experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. When I walked into the grocery store this morning the front of the store was filled with ...
‘Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers. They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down.” The world is fighting a global pandemic, and the United States is set to become one of ...
“It is the weapons companies, private prisons, and asset management firms like BlackRock that stand to gain a profit from war and migration.” With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling ...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened ...
The conditions of this virus have communities rehashing togetherness, and relearning what remains when our money-based lifestyles slow down. In the midst of an international viral outbreak that has people worldwide physically distancing out of ...
“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, this pandemic will affect us all. And for the world’s most vulnerable, the worst may be yet to come.” Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation has donated ...
“A consequence of the failure of the austerity politics is that ideas that had been unthinkable just a few months ago—such as nationalization of hospitals and provision of substantial income support to unemployed workers—is on ...
“Central to Democrats’ concerns with the legislation was a $425 billion ‘slush fund’ for the Federal Reserve, which it could use to bailout businesses while also withholding the names of those companies for up to six ...
“A coronavirus outbreak in our overcrowded, poorly maintained jails and prison facilities would be devastating, swift, and deadly.” In New York City, 21 inmates and 17 employees at Rikers Island and surrounding facilities have tested ...
Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that accurate news pieces take six times longer to reach 1,500 Twitter users than misleading information. The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has sparked global panic as the ...
“Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a ...
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen’s farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century ...
Bumping elbows at the United Nations. The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to ...
Doctors are warning that the huge numbers of inmates locked inside large communal cells, often with dozens of other people, a perfect breeding ground for disease. (Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Tom Perez sucks and should resign for endangering Democratic Party voters in last Tuesday’s primaries by encouraging them to vote. The Democrats better get things together before November or we could be in trouble.
One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change. Amidst all the terrible news about the spreading coronavirus epidemic, a scintillating fact has emerged that can energize the ...
In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. The ...
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 ...
Reports out of Iran and Venezuela detail the devastating impact American sanctions are having on the two countries as they seek to prevent mass death and overwhelmed health services amid the global Coronavirus crisis. Reports ...
“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the ...
On March 16, 2020, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva wrote a blog post on the Fund’s website; it represents the kind of generosity necessary in the midst of a global pandemic. “The ...
Workers at the New York fulfillment center denounced the company for reopening the facility just one day after the positive case was reported. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Two days after 1,500 Amazon workers around ...
Cuts to SNAP Delayed, For Now On March 13 a Federal Judge issued a decision to stop a planned rule change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The new rule would have prevented an ...
The spread of COVID-19 has impacted the US economy in unprecedented ways. Even with March 15th’s record-breaking federal interest rate cuts, many homeowners are surprised to find that rates are either higher than expected or ...
“That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Ignoring urgent pleas from medical professionals and other health experts to postpone primary elections amid the ...
The coronavirus is being used to expand mass surveillance. Across the world, governments are turning to extreme measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from closing borders to putting entire countries on ...
“There were people whose lives were in danger, and we acted. Period.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) After two Italian volunteers used a 3-D printer to manufacture a desperately needed ventilator component for those stricken ...
The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the state. The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden swept Super Tuesday III and in doing so has likely ended the Democratic presidential primary. Biden won Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday and has become the undisputed front runner ...
“The healthcare industry will fight any threat to its profits with force and gobs of cash, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They cannot be bargained with. And they must be defeated.” (By: ...
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