“We once again have been forgotten by our own government.” Native American tribes and reservations have been particularly hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic both in terms of public health and economy. “We are United States ...
MintPress’ Ahmed Abdulkareem traveled through Yemen’s recently liberated al-Jawf Province to see firsthand the devastation left behind by Saudi-backed AQAP militants. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) The journey from Sana’a to the far northeastern stretches ...
In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the Cornoavirus has created a brave new world. And in other ways, the arrangement has reinforced the cowardly old one. Class ...
“We keep getting clear signs that the way we live and the actions we take are having severe consequences.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) The largest ever assessment of long-term insect abundance found that there ...
Raising awareness about the risks of continuing “agribusiness as usual” has become more important than ever. A typical weekend for 26-year-old Juvel Ingal is perhaps atypical for most. On Saturdays, she spends her time at ...
As corporations like Amazon and Whole Foods spend fortunes on advertising campaigns thanking their workforce for “heroic” service, they refuse to provide even basic protective gear or sick pay and ruthlessly crush any internal dissent. (By: Alan ...
“This decision is a huge victory for clean water. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to blow a big hole in the Clean Water Act’s protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans.” In ...
Turkey’s foreign policy centered around Recep Erdogan’s ambitions has been devised as a giant web weaved all across Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe. Now the Turkish leader may fall prey to his own schemes. ...
“Profit-driven capitalism proved extremely inefficient in its response to the virus.” Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.” ...
“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A new report examining the ...
CNN is partnering with “Sesame Street” for a special town hall this Saturday at 9 a.m. ET to focus on educating kids and parents about coronavirus. The 90-minute program is entitled “The ABC’s of Covid ...
“We don’t want people to panic. We don’t want people to be afraid of pets. There’s no evidence that pets are playing a role in spreading this disease to people.” Until this week, humans have ...
William Shakespeare called our world a stage because just as actors make their entry and exits onto a stage, so we all enter into this world, move through different stages in life on this earth, ...
The oil and gas industry is weaker than ever, offering a perfect opportunity for humanity to pull the plug. While the whole world is consumed with the disastrous coronavirus pandemic, little attention is being paid ...
If you were playing a game by its rules, discovered the rules were unfair, and learned that the penalty for losing the game was death, would you not flip over the table?
Stupidity Is Killing Us When did America become so stupid? There have recently been rallies at state capitols of “Liberate Michigan,” “Liberate Texas,” etc., which the president has fueled on Twitter. The rallies advocate for ...
The attack on the Chinese government and the World Health Organization’s work on the new virus by the Trump administration is unfounded. On April 14, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump addressed a news conference at the White ...
Shalala broke federal law by not disclosing stock sales in 2019 as required by the STOCK Act. When Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Donna Shalala as the sole Democrat to the five-person Congressional ...
“It’s simply bizarre and unconscionable that the Trump administration would have United manage billions in relief to hospitals.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Watchdog groups and healthcare advocates are raising serious concerns about conflicts of ...
With swift and utter clarity, the coronavirus pandemic is smashing the myth of U.S. individualism. We are not independent individuals as many of us like to think, making it because of our own strengths or ...
The coronavirus may have encouraged a break in usual diplomatic conflicts across the globe, but the US has maintained tension with Iran in the Persian Gulf. ‘Shoot Down and Destroy’ The coronavirus may have encouraged ...
Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the US government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. (By: John Whitehead, Mintpress News) I have never known any ...
“This reflects the deliberate invisibilization of the foreign worker; the whole machinery of state operates as though they don’t exist.” With COVID-19 taking a grip on countries all over the world, people are being told ...
The school privatization movement is not stopping as the country remains locked down. COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to slash education budgets due to the economic collapse caused by the outbreak, and ...
“This is why oversight is important. No matter when or who it hurts, big business and corporations will always try to cash in.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Small businesses filed class-action lawsuits against three large banks Monday, ...
Despite a recent study from Harvard showing strong evidence that people breathing air with more particulate matter have a significantly increased risk of dying from COVID-19, the EPA has chosen to maintain old standards on ...
Local volunteer efforts across the country provide resources and free delivery to seniors, houseless communities and other vulnerable groups. Across the nation, people who are able to are volunteering to offer free delivery of food ...
President Donald Trump announced an upcoming immigration ban on Monday night, citing the COVID-19 outbreak and saying that the action will be temporary. Protecting Jobs “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as ...
Imagine your immune system as your body’s defense mechanism. Typically, it does a remarkable job of protecting you against invadersーmicroorganisms that cause disease. However, at times, the immune system falls short, letting an invader in, ...
“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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“We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we’re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The western United ...
“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 ...
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