A University of Southern California exhibit dedicated to John Wayne will be removed from their School of Cinematic Arts, following a student-led protest against the actor’s history of racism and homophobia. After the death of ...
(Let’s Try Democracy) The New York Times claims that Russia offered to pay Afghans to kill U.S. (and allied) troops. It does not claim that any payments were made. It does not claim that any troops were ...
Children’s trafficking and exploitation is a widespread phenomenon that is causing enormous suffering throughout the world. It can take several forms such as forced labor, sexual exploitation and child begging, among other practices. Originally published ...
Biden’s policies are the same policies and exact rhetoric used by the Trump administration. (Common Dreams) The Biden campaign held an online event on Wednesday, July 8 pitched as the former Vice President’s “vision for ...
A new pro-Israel policy framework proposed by the US Chamber of Commerce is bolstering the ongoing merger between the US and Israeli national security states. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) A two-pronged initiative by the ...
“The proposed policy throws the lives of hundreds of thousands of students, and the operations of hundreds of colleges and universities, into uncertainty just weeks before the start of the fall term, to the detriment ...
Lawmakers are outraged over a recent story alleging that Vladimir Putin may be paying off Taliban soldiers to kill U.S. troops. But why are those troops still in Afghanistan? The New York Times in late ...
(World Beyond War) The new film, The Vow From Hiroshima, tells the story of Setsuko Thurlow who was a school girl in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb. She was pulled ...
Military families deserve better than what the Guillen family had to endure and a Congressional investigation into Fort Hood’s response to Guillen’s disappearance and murder is warranted. (Code Pink) Fort Hood, Texas is a dangerous ...
Turkey is decided of the use of military force to achieve its goals in Libya
“No other president has retained ownership of a massive global business while serving, so this president’s self-enrichment and conflicts of interest represent a unique and unprecedented affront to the democracy.” The Supreme Court rejected President ...
“The big news at the Supreme Court today will be Trump’s taxes,” said Cherokee writer Rebecca Nagle. “But for Indians in Oklahoma, we’ll be talking about today for decades.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Indigenous leaders on ...
The debate over the size of the next stimulus round has quickly devolved into a partisan issue that could jeopardize Pelosi’s deadline of end of July. Although businesses received multiple rounds of coronavirus relief funding, ...
The biggest banks, it turns out, are every bit as complicit in the climate crisis as they were in the slave trade. (Common Dreams) In case you missed their tweets and statements, Wall Street wants ...
Why vague commitments by fossil fuel corporations to “zero out” carbon emissions don’t add up. Fossil fuel giant Shell took time in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to announce on April 16 that it ...
The U.S. may soon take sides in a potential water war over the Nile River. The $4.5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is reaching the mature stage of construction, with Ethiopia announcing its intent to begin ...
Trump held rallies in Tulsa and Phoenix where coronavirus cases are spiking. The director of the Tulsa Health Department said a rise in his county’s number of coronavirus cases is likely connected to several large ...
A cornerstone of orthodox economics is the idea that capitalists’ decisions about investing and producing are inherently “efficient.” This means that capitalists select among all alternative courses of action those whose costs are minimal and ...
No matter how much support a cause has when gearing up, it has little hope of accomplishing long-term goals if its supporters are divided. Since the 1960s, how many movements have excitedly exploded into existence, ...
As the coronavirus reshapes many aspects of life, it has come time for schools to contemplate when and how to safely reopen for the fall semester. President Donald Trump strongly feels schools should reopen or ...
On January 9, 2020, Ambassador Karen Pierce—the United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations—spoke at a meeting on the UN Charter. “Nobody could accuse the founding members of a lack of ambition when they drafted the ...
The rich have been successfully chipping away at Americans’ trust in government for decades. About 75 percent of Americans trusted the federal government to “do what is right” when polled during most of the last years of ...
The attack that targeted Al-Watiya air base gave Ankara’s ambitious plans for capturing strategic areas of Sirte port and Jufra airbase a reality check
“PPP was sold to the American people as a program to help Mom-and-Pop shops keep their lights on during the pandemic. The reality is that the Trump administration created a program that helped the well ...
It’s taken a pandemic to make people realize public schools are a key to prosperity, but so far they’re bringing too little, too late. “After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as ...
The announcement comes three days after the right-wing leader was photographed without a mask with the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro—who has repeatedly dismissed the threat of ...
“The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before oil companies, is winning.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Supreme Court late Monday upheld a federal judge’s rejection of a crucial permit for ...
The incident adds to the growing number of car attacks against anti-racist protesters. On Monday evening, protesters in Bloomington, Indiana were marching in support of Vauhxx Booker after he was attacked by a white mob ...
A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it. (Common Dreams) The pandemic has claimed nearly 15 million ...
“If the events of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s that health and justice must be prioritized early on in any decision-making process if we want to avoid a crisis later on.” (By: Jessica Corbett, ...
The horror of the coronavirus pandemic proves that progressives have been justified in demanding a single-payer health care system. A pandemic is not the time to be having discussions about how to design a national ...
A new documentary from CNN Films focuses on politician and civil rights leader, John Lewis, who participated in several key moments in the fight for racial equality. “When you see something that is not right ...
It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what it means. Mary Oliver from “Daises” Oliver wrote “It is possible, I ...
After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir. The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock ...
When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what was left of Yugoslavia in 1999 and NATO invaded and occupied the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, U.S. officials presented the war to the American public as a ...
“This city will never sleep until we get justice.” Minneapolis has been protesting since May 26th, and although the national spotlight has gone elsewhere, Minneapolis continues to protest against police violence and held a large ...
Since we are able to accept the suffering of others when we dehumanize them, we must start with the simple recognition that Palestinians are fully human. (Common Dreams) For decades, Israel has used talk of ...
On Independence Day, music superstar Kanye West tweeted that he will run for president in the 2020 election. The 43-year old rapper has previously been vocal in his support of President Trump, but would now ...
From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change. (Common Dreams) For decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the ...
Where are your masks? Why are you sitting so close together? AHHHHH! (Photo Credit: Shealah Craighead/Official White House Photo) No one in their right mind would’ve wished for a deadly global pandemic like the one ...
The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change. (Common Dreams) The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would ...
“Isn’t the hallmark of due process the notion that people require notice and that the citizenry has a right to know what their legislatures are voting on? How does this not fly in the face ...
The latest scandal, like others before it, is based on scant testimony by anonymous officials and has had the effect of pushing liberal opinion on US foreign policy into a far more hawkish direction. (By: ...
“This is a dire health and safety emergency because the state is not taking care of workers at Tesla” Tesla employees and members of a workers’ rights group accused car company Tesla of a coronavirus ...
Change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up. Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names ...
“More than ever, we’re concerned about the worsening health situation and its impact on the burgeoning recovery. Rebounding mobility and poor use of protective equipment will make for a dangerous summer cocktail.” At a White ...
“In the absence of popular movements strong enough to rip down marble idols and generate public shame, U.S. history lessons omit everything they can and carefully mold anything so large that it cannot be avoided. ...
To make matter worse, Remdesivir is a drug that “has had its development costs paid for, in large part, by independent donors like governments and ministries of health in China, the WHO, and the US government.” ...
The Trump administration has turned sharply toward economic nationalism. It attacks and undermines the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the UN. Trump and other top officials explicitly insult many world leaders. He imposes high tariffs. ...
“The bases were named during the Jim Crow South era and it wasn’t done to respect the African Americans of the South. It was to appease the Jim Crow governments of that era.” The annual ...
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