This article is part 2 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank Initiative, to read part one click here Collaboration is Key The most productive approach to solve challenging and critical issues, according to ...
A new study found that in the past eight weeks alone, the country’s super wealthy have added a further $368.8 billion to their already enormous fortunes. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) America’s billionaires have seen ...
On Thursday, May 7, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called Dr. Francis Collins – Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Gary Disbrow – Acting Director of Biomedical Advanced ...
While the European Union imposed fifteen conditions for the opening of the accession negotiations with Albania, instead of working on those conditions the Albanian premier Edi Rama recently proposed the plan of legalizing the cultivation ...
“Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Environmental campaigners vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s EPA Thursday after the ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress ...
History is made, not decreed, which is why on May 11th, activists from dozens of different countries launched Progressive International, a global initiative with a mission to unite, organize and mobilize progressive forces. (Common Dreams) ...
Since 1932, Kansas has remained a stalwart Republican torchbearer — the state has elected solely Republican US senators over those 88 years. This year could be different. Since 1932, Kansas has remained a stalwart Republican ...
“If the Trump administration approaches vaccine development as it has Covid-19 prevention, testing and treatment, the world may be in for years of more extraordinary pain,” said Public Citizen. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government ...
“[The] ASIO bill amendment [is] one more step towards a totalitarian state.” On Wednesday, the Australian government put forward a bill in parliament to give more power to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) including ...
Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict Yasser Aslan used to teach programming. With the war and ever dwindling economy, Yasser, the only breadwinner in the family of six, had to look for additional sources ...
Washington has made it a priority to radically overhaul the military in double time, designating weapons manufacturers as “essential” services during the pandemic. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The economy has crashed. A nationwide pandemic ...
“It wasn’t until checkpoints come about, then all of a sudden we’re a focus, a center of attention. You know we’ve been wanting assistance for test kits, we’ve been wanting assistance with (personal protective equipment), ...
Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering ...
The worst-case coronavirus scenario is not the mass deaths it is causing. It is that people are being led to accept mass death - to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 ...
“We’re facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership ...
The largest solar project in U.S. history was just approved. On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) gave approval for a 690-megawatt (MW) Gemini Solar + ...
The new documentary “Alice Street” explores an iconic mural project, the high-rise that covered it up and the communities it catalyzed to action. “Love, arts, music.” These three words are painted in capital letters across ...
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third ...
The House is scheduled to vote on the $3 trillion economic relief bill Friday, but even if it passes, it faces challenges from the Republican-controlled Senate, according to POLITICO. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ...
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that ...
“Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture ...
“We have every legal right to do what we’re doing… We just don’t really have the resources to combat this virus once it gets into our lands.” South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem announced Monday ...
On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command—told the U.S. Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down ...
(David Swanson) In September 2018, I wrote an article about four women who were running for Congress in four separate districts, each speaking against wars and militarism in highly unusual ways. They later all won their ...
The latest technological development appears to be an updated, “algorithmic phrenology,” repackaging a dangerous idea for the 21st century, all the more noteworthy because they are trying to sell it to law enforcement as an ...
“We cannot afford to allow the interests of private corporations to supersede the needs of the American people and the long-term stability of our economy.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) BlackRock, the largest asset management ...
Unless Democrats begin to take advantage of the liability Guaidó represents and push back against Trump’s regime change efforts, there seems to be little hope of improving U.S.–Venezuela relations, regardless of who wins the presidency ...
“If criticism becomes too much, people will avoid getting tested. And when infected people go into hiding, controlling the outbreak will be much harder.” South Korea received plaudits for its quick and effective response to ...
2016 Democrats: Well, I don’t think we can find a candidate more unpopular than Hillary going forward. 2020 Democrats: Hold my beer. Amid her 2018 take-down of President Donald Trump, members of his administration, media ...
“Regular Heroes” premiered on Amazon Prime, focusing on frontline heroes in the war on COVID-19. The term “hero” refers to all essential workers such as grocery store clerks, hospital workers, teachers, farmers, bus drivers, delivery ...
From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in ...
Hot takes are a scourge upon opinion journalism and the forming of opinions more generally.
The FCC’s 1949 Fairness Doctrine required broadcast television and radio licensees to present controversial issues of public interest in a “fair, equitable, and balanced” manner, but critics have argued that it actually hinders open discourse ...
(By: Michael Lesher, OffGuardian) Reading op-eds these days about the grim progress of COVID-19 through the United States, I sometimes have the eerie feeling that I’ve traveled backward in time and landed in some sort ...
“Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common ...
By looking at elections around the globe and glimpsing at political maneuvering in the United States, a grim picture of anti-democratic political brinkmanship emerges. As the United States inches closer to the 2020 presidential election ...
The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers depending on which choice maximizes employers’ profits. Profit, ...
“Trump is exploiting a public health crisis to help an industry known for pumping diseases and antibiotics into oceans.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday that environmentalists warned ...
“What we need is not a little tweaking. We need the revolution of values that many tried to find an approximation of in Bernie Sanders. We need a society that empowers and rewards kindness instead ...
“Businesses’ calls for immunity are premised on a false choice between the return to a healthy economy and allowing businesses to be held accountable if they cause people to get sick.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common ...
Most of the most powerful players in the world of digital surveillance aren’t government intelligence agencies, but private corporations. Technological advances and seismic shifts in the way information is diffused and transmitted have categorized the ...
“We are learning that even though children are by and large mildly affected when it comes to COVID-19 that there can be situations that they are more severely affected.” New York State issued a health ...
(David Swanson) I’m not quite as big a fan of the new film “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” as Jon Schwarz is but think he makes some great points about it, as he usually does. The film doesn’t ...
The request would work out to almost $21 million per day from American taxpayers, even as the U.S. is approaching a $4 trillion deficit (the largest in the world), and Israel typically has a lower unemployment rate than ...
Health systems are racing to review the abundant evidence available from many countries on the effectiveness of various policies to reduce transmission rates.
The Trump administration immediately denied all involvement, “it has nothing to do with our government,” the president said yesterday. But as the dust settled, the mercenaries immediately began implicating each other – and the U.S. ...
With millions of children not attending school due to Covid-19, the Oscar-winning actress and humanitarian is drawing attention to fight hunger that may result from this scenario. Indeed, about half of U.S. students rely on ...
“With school resources already stretched thin, now is not the time to require school administrators, faculty, and staff to review new, complex title IX regulations, revise their schools’ policies in response, and communicate these changes ...
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