“The oil price collapse creates a historic opening: a public buyout of the fossil fuel sector to enact a managed decline of extraction and ensure a just transition for workers and communities.” (By: Julia Conley, ...
At the end of the day, there is no substitute for integrity.
Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
While the economic fallout of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is not yet fully understood, it is safe to say that the effects will be severe. Around the world, governments are providing bailouts and promising to ...
The company, which is owned by Amazon, uses factors like race, turnover, and “loyalty” to determine each store’s score. (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Progressives on Monday criticized Whole Foods, the grocery chain owned by ...
Written with Earth Day in mind: Carl Sagan in his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human in Space, wrote Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our ...
“These things are happening daily — it’s getting a lot more dangerous,” Eddie Song told NBC News after he and his wife were told by a man that Asians caused coronavirus. With the competition out ...
Bipartisan efforts in Congress could result in another relief package this week. President Donald Trump and leaders from both parties have spoken optimistically about the prospect of passing a $450 billion aid package designed exclusively ...
“To truly be resilient, our system must shift to one that relies on small and medium producers and independent, responsible operations.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) U.S. food pantries have faced unprecedented demand while billions ...
The new plan, says the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, “lacks critical details to confirm whether it will actually reach all who need it.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) While some industry trade associations, hunger relief organizations, ...
“This is impossible to understand — the government intentionally misled the victims but found a way to get away with it by working with a child molester to get around the law. And the judges ...
India is accelerating down the track of religious strife, and the government itself is driving the vehicle. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Last week, 22-year-old Dilshad “Mehboob” Ali was dragged into a field on the ...
A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia ...
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“It’s going to uplift America. We need that moment right now in American history.” Since July 8, 2011, no US spacecraft has ferried Americans into space. When Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center ...
A new report suggests that a tax cut quietly inserted into the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act will add almost $170 billion to the deficit over the next ten years and overwhelmingly benefit ...
Lithuania is used to maintain national security and defence relying on NATO allies in many ways. Such approach helps to save money and receive political preferences within the Alliance. Thus, the NATO enhanced Forward Presence ...
May Day offers a perfect opportunity to reshape labor relations during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the inequalities baked into the U.S.’s capitalist system—one that deems nurses and grocery workers ...
The move by USAA, while welcomed, only makes the case for more oversight. Update… (By: Jake Johnson, Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Hours after David Dayen reported Thursday at The American Prospect that USAA was seizing coronavirus stimulus money ...
“Keystone XL and other proposed fossil fuel pipelines would devastate frontline communities and wreak havoc on our environment.” The Keystone XL oil pipeline has encountered another obstacle to its competition. Montana Chief District Judge Brian ...
“It was a political rally that is going to endanger peoples’ lives, because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads.” On Wednesday, thousands of protestors rallied on foot and by car in Lansing, Michigan’s capital to ...
“For the past 40-plus years, a group of “conservative” billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities ...
“There is absolutely no excuse left for Congress to exclude basic human needs from the next coronavirus stimulus package, or in general,” said Food & Water Action’s Rianna Eckel. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Over ...
As an associate professor of mathematics in the nation's capital at the University of the District of Columbia, and the director of faculty development for our college, I certainly don't fall under the category of ...
MintPress News spoke to a number of people on the front lines attempting to keep America fed during the worst pandemic in a century. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) At least 10,000 cars line up in ...
One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due ...
“Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amplifying fresh critiques of wealthy inequality that have mounted ...
The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health with the respecting of individual liberty? The virus respects no borders. ...
A new drama miniseries depicts the true story of the quest to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and how it was opposed by a famous conservative woman, Phyllis Schlafly. Premiering on FX ...
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.” President Donald Trump alone has the power to reopen the US economy, he declared at his Monday evening briefing, according to the New ...
There is a way out of our cruel, unjust food system. Mike Weaver is a trailblazer, boldly speaking out against the very industry that provided his livelihood. In 2016, he exposed the inhumane conditions and ...
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread. On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to ...
“No one should ever have to choose between their health and their vote.” A 60-year old Chicago man, Revall Burke, died from the coronavirus on April 1, just two weeks after working at a polling ...
As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them. The global outbreak of COVID-19, and the collective effort to slow down the spread of ...
It is a sign of how bad things are when the editorial board of the Financial Times, the world’s leading business newspaper, carries an editorial calling for “radical reforms… reversing the prevailing policy direction of ...
“The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply.” ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
Launching a military campaign in Libya on the side of the Government of National Accord, Turkey hardly believed that the main obstacle to achieving decisive success became the inertia of its Libyan ally. But, as ...
The original story and a tweet included this now-deleted sentence, “we found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.” The sexual assault allegations ...
Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a series of bills on Friday that will bring to fruition several progressive policy ideals when they go into effect July 1. While much of life has been on hold ...
“If you work in a grocery store or factory then sorry, the coronavirus cases there probably aren’t being reported.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has quietly issued guidance informing most employers ...
The Saudi regime has engaged in a number of questionable activities since the global outbreak of COVID-19, including moving masses of African refugees deported from areas with coronavirus to the Yemeni border. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, ...
“It was the Africa I dreamed of when I was 10 and fell in love with Tarzan,” said primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall in a recent interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson. “I left Gombe, my ...
Coal companies are “going to try to use this virus thing to stop paying benefits,” warned one retired miner suffering from black lung. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Some of the largest coal companies in ...
Bill Cosby was always a rapist monster. That much, hindsight and evidence make clear. Still, moored in our “Me Too” moment, it’s easy to forget how profound and influential the man, and the network smash hit, The Cosby ...
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw ...
“Most royals are at severe risks of developing complications – poor diet, lack of exercise, age, all those factors play against many members of the monarchy I’m afraid. Evidently daily gatherings, outings and the coming ...
As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both worlds” predicament: daily life and much of the U.S. economy is ...
The silence from the media’s loudest #MeToo champions has been deafening. There has been exactly zero coverage of sexual allegations against Joe Biden on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC or CBS. Likewise, The New York Times ...
No business as usual. Usual is no more. Except for the unmasked reality of how we got to this moment at this time in our lives. Where are we now, you may ask? I would ...
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