An alarming 75 percent of new or emerging diseases start in animals. As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States grow and the government scrambles to address the virus’s spread, it’s important to ...
“We need you to step up and stop the State of Wisconsin from putting hundreds of thousands of citizens at risk by requiring them to vote at the polls while this ugly pandemic spreads,” pleaded ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. On March 25, the foreign ministers of the G7 states failed to release a ...
The U.S, Italy, and Indonesia have the highest mortality rates from COVID-19, according to Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture. Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture (DKV) released the latest ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Saudi Arabia has engaged in a number of questionable practices that have Yemenis fearing the Kingdom may be intentionally trying to spread the virus. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) The ...
ICA Farmville already has a reputation for overcrowding and poor sanitation. Last year the private ICE prison was hit with an outbreak of mumps, a classic disease of overcrowding and poor sanitation. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
As it turns out, Bernie Sanders has been right about pretty much everything. Maybe Democratic Party voters should be voting for him. Just a thought.
“This is about making sure that we’re able to conduct our democracy while we’re dealing with a pandemic.” COVID-19 has already disrupted several Democratic primary elections, forcing some states to postpone the contests until May. ...
“Oh, so we have to pay our rent, but now Big Oil doesn’t have to pay anything for destroying our public lands? Cool, cool.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) A coalition of climate organizations strongly ...
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary ...
“There is a massive shortage of respirators and ventilators, which are the only systems keeping patients with severe cases of COVID-19 alive.” Healthcare professionals are on the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus and ...
“It’s a shot in the gut.” As coronavirus cripples America with New York at the epicenter of the outbreak, New York legislators and Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed to a state budget that will cut the ...
Youtube is promoting the hashtag #StayHome for the past several weeks as part of a global campaign urging people to stay home and watch videos during the COVID-19 pandemic. With much of the world staying ...
In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. (By: John Whitehead, ...
“A portrait of disaster. Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, ...
“For the wealthiest hospital corporation in the United States to show such disregard for the health and safety of its caregivers, is disgraceful and unconscionable.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Nurses at 15 hospitals across ...
“They’re taking political advantage of a crisis when they know it’s more difficult to respond.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to issue sweeping environmental rollbacks, including the termination of Obama-era ...
Advocates for homeschooling and other forms of public school privatization want you to believe the pandemic has a silver lining—they’re wrong. In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when ...
‘We Will Continue’ It has become near universal wisdom by this point in the COVID-19 pandemic that social distancing limits the spread of the disease. Some pastors, however, have continued to hold service, even drawing ...
The survey was taken as Congress debated a $4.5 trillion corporate bailout amid the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) New polling out Wednesday backdropped by the continuing coronavirus outbreak shows that most of ...
Women in the U.S. May Soon Be Eligible for the Draft On March 24 a Congressional commission on military service issued a series of recommendations regarding the future of America’s Military, including a recommendation that ...
“Millions are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or mortgage by tomorrow. We need additional emergency action suspending rent, mortgage and utility payments for the duration of this crisis.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) More ...
The US Congress just passed a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus last week, but it is already looking ahead to the next stage of economic relief. When lawmakers negotiated the previous relief package, they said further ...
Europe is being called the epicenter of the disease and particularly Western Europe where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain nationalizing the country’s industry to a total quarantine in France ...
Citizen Truth talked to Fulbright grant recipients in Brasil and Spain about their unique situations and the different ways the crisis is affecting their lives and the lives of others in their respective countries. The ...
“Taking action cost me my job,” said Chris Smalls. “Because I tried to stand up for something that’s right, the company decided to retaliate against me.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New York Attorney General ...
“This is not about fighting disinformation. The Hungarian government is taking advantage of a health emergency to accelerate its already extensive control over news and information in the country.” Yesterday, the Hungarian Parliament passed a ...
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
As the COVID-19 epidemic closes public schools, standards, testing, and charters grow increasingly irrelevant. “The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a phone call. Oropeza is a public ...
“One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Labor rights advocates on Monday urged the public to show support and ...
“I think they are surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are ...
As of Sunday night, the United States has 143,055 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 2,513 deaths. At a Sunday night press conference, President Donald Trump announced a long list of social distancing guidelines will be ...
Since 1984, Dr. Tony Fauci has run the NIAID, the $5.9 billion US government agency responsible for "leading research to understand, treat, and prevent infectious diseases." While COVID-19 engulfs us, he has become a talk ...
Grammy-winning rock icon Bob Dylan released a surprise song at the end of last week — a meditation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, through the lends of American political and pop-cultural history. The ...
The Food & Drug Administration has authorized the use of two drugs championed by President Donald Trump as a means to fight coronavirus. Emergency Authorization Given On Sunday night the FDA issued an emergency authorization ...
“We need your leadership in supporting science-based recommendations on social distancing that can slow the virus.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A council representing more than 800,000 doctors across the U.S. signed a letter Friday ...
Scientists and pharmaceutical companies are racing to produce the most effective medicines and vaccines to fight the pandemic. As the New Coronavirus (COVID-9) continues to infect and kill more people worldwide, scientists and pharmaceutical companies ...
“Some entertainers are seeking to console or at least occupy the attention of those in lockdown by creating new content to stream online.” As America joins other countries in hunkering down to avoid coronavirus, the ...
How we ultimately respond to the coronavirus pandemic could tell us a lot about what will happen when the climate crisis hits in full force.
“The bottom line is that the Taliban (and Pakistan, which mentors it) would see that the political ascendance of the Taliban in Kabul, whenever it is due, happens with international legitimacy.” In an extraordinary statement ...
Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly. I’m writing this at 585,000 worldwide active cases, 26,000 deaths, and with only China and Korea seemingly ...
Assange’s treatment in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
“I am now self-isolating.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, just weeks after cavalierly declaring that he was still “shaking hands with ...
“This is the largest financial hit that we will have ever taken in the history of our agency.” The impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been mostly represented by money lost by businesses and lives ...
“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March ...
“America may be witnessing just the beginning of the dire situation as economists anticipate the unemployment rate will continue to climb.” US stock markets closed Thursday with their third consecutive day on the rise on ...
America’s farmworkers deserve better. Farmworkers, farmers and their organizations around the country have been singing the same tune for years on the urgent need for immigration reform. That harmony turns to discord as soon as ...
“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real,” said Joe ...
“There’s no doubt that the prospect of an enormous public backlash is what made the difference.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government watchdog Public Citizen celebrated Wednesday afternoon as pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences backed off ...
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