(Benjamin Studebaker) As the coronavirus crisis drags on, it has become popular to declare this to be the death of neoliberalism. If neoliberalism were simply noninterference in the economy, the large stimulus packages passed around ...
Americans are struggling. Around the globe, better responses to COVID-19 offer lessons to the U.S. In the United States, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on bailouts of mega-corporations and big banks. Citizens ...
The bill contains stricter rules for the use of lethal force and stronger legal accountability for law enforcement, but critics argue that the measures don’t go far enough. Representatives and Senators are in the process ...
“The government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding.” A retired federal judge called the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss the criminal case against ...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on disturbing injustices in our food system—reaffirming the need for systemic change. Slaughterhouses (euphemistically called “meatpacking ...
COVID-19 is the first global pandemic of the internet era. Information is now transferred at the speed of light rather than the speed of Morse code. This gives us a big advantage over our ancestors—if ...
After a spraypainting the precinct now says “Seattle People Department” While direct confrontation between police and protesters has become less visible in recent days, Seattle protesters took their demonstration to the next level late Monday ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) There are a number of problems with the strategy of the current protest movement. No one seems to be writing about these problems. This is not to say that no one can see ...
“It was after 7:30 (a.m.) when we went inside the voting area only to be told the machines were down. We had to use provisional ballots. I filled it out and left it there.” Tuesday ...
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history. Capitalism ...
Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet. The wildfires that tore across Australia were as devastating as they were overwhelming, scorching some 15 million acres of land, killing ...
The statues are coming down. The most recent avalanche began in the United States after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the uprising it occasioned. In Philadelphia, the city removed a statue ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) A short while ago, we were making political demands on our states, of various kinds. Some of us wanted our governments to do more to stop the spread of the virus and save ...
Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public health grounds, and it should do so to help ...
“For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the OAS’ claims of fraud were bogus.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) More than seven months after claims of fraudulent ...
Some activists have called upon lawmakers to defund the police, but the bill stops short of removing money or adding any for reforming departments, a Senate Democratic aide told NBC News. Democratic lawmakers returned to ...
Director Damon Gameau imagines what the future could look like by the year 2040 if “we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the ...
Most scientists agree that an unprecedented economic transformation is now needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avert climate breakdown. (Common Dreams) The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a sharp and sudden shock to the global ...
Just nine days after protestors burned down Minneapolis PD’s 3rd Precinct, huge changes are afoot. Nine of the thirteen councilors on the Minneapolis City Council announced their intent to dismantle the city’s police department in ...
Scalia has rolled back rules that protected workers’ retirement security. This should be seen as a gift to private equity firms, not a favor to workers. (Common Dreams) Private Equity (PE) firms have had their ...
“There’s children of all ages and older adults here. They are going to experience what we have experienced and we have to try to make that not happen.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) After the ...
(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial ...
“Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will pay the price.” (By: ...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt American life, expanding legal services can help Americans endure. Eddie Brown seemed to fit the profile of a federal inmate most eligible for emergency release during the ongoing coronavirus ...
Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. (Common Dreams) It was a striking moment: Donald ...
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” That’s Martin Luther King, Jr., folks. (Photo Credit: Rob Bulmahn/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Admittedly, I am sometimes reticent about opining on movements like Black Lives Matter and the ...
“It’s happening much sooner in the cycle than you normally see it.” Organizations dedicated to spurring more voter registrations are reporting an uptick due to the George Floyd protests, CNBC reported. Before the protests, advocacy ...
As protests erupted across the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a dozen progressive Democratic House members filed a resolution May 29 condemning police brutality not only in the case ...
The long list of names killed due to police violence is growing. David McAtee, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd. These are just some of the names of the people killed by law enforcement as anti-racist protests ...
George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. Not since the mass protests that originated in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 when a white police officer killed a black ...
The policies of the United States are deeply implicated in Yemen’s suffering, including the sale of billions of dollars in munitions to Saudi Arabia and other countries that have intervened in the civil war. (Common ...
Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
“By recklessly buying billions in fossil fuel bonds the bank is propping up the single biggest obstacle to tackling the climate crisis.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After the European Union’s central bank on Thursday ...
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote for The Atlantic. Thus began the retired Marine general’s sharply critical take on President Donald Trump’s response to ...
The charge of racism is partially right and partially wrong. The murder of George Forbes is a malevolent metaphor of life in the United States under the ruling class. Racism is a huge part of ...
At the height of the technology developed a few years earlier, Microsoft’s founder was forced to describe the phenomenon by predicting that it would change everything in the years to come in his famous memo, ...
“Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In a webinar Tuesday about pandemics, wildlife, ...
“After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews, and even notions of who could become a police officer.” On May 25 ...
“This is the most openly authoritarian piece of writing I’ve read from an American politician who has been in power during my lifetime.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The New York Times drew sharp criticism on ...
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in ...
African Americans and Hispanics have been looted of trillions in reduced pay by racist employers and giant corporations, while their safety, lives and peace of mind have been looted by racist police. (Common Dreams) Looting ...
“AG Bill Barr’s behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Attorney General William Barr is facing ...
The U.S. walking out of the Open Skies agreement is a clear signal that it seeks global dominance. As other countries are unlikely to surrender, we are back to hair-trigger nuclear alerts and the Doomsday ...
Society in the United States has been broken by the mechanisms of high rates of economic inequality, high rates of poverty, impossible entry into robust educational systems, and remarkable warlike conditions put in place to ...
The great game in Libya has begun surging with the United States shedding its strategic ambivalence and resorting to a proactive role. At the end of May, the Pentagon marked a dramatic escalation by accusing ...
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said of the president. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump had police violently disperse peaceful protesters with tear ...
If there ever was a clear cut case for human rights abuse, it is the ongoing and pervasive disregard for communities of color by the police and concomitant prison-judicial complex in America. (By: Raul Diego, ...
Despite the threats from the President and members of Congress, the number of nationwide protests increased with over 350 cities holding demonstrations. After another day of police brutality and increasing pressure from Trump and his ...
Importantly, participants in ‘Blackout Tuesday’ should not use the #blacklivesmatter or #blm hashtag because their posts will drown out valuable information. The music industry is announcing a “Blackout Tuesday” in response to the death of ...
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society ...
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