“Obviously helping certain enterprises is important, so I’m not opposed to industry aid. But the terms and conditions matter, and based on what I’m seeing, I don’t believe there will be meaningful restrictions on this ...
“Some of those who are hardest hit but the economic turmoil are retirees and those who are, or were, planning to retire soon.” Most Americans have not yet experienced the health care impacts of COVID-19 ...
Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of COVID-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism. The COVID-19 pandemic is now moving at a speed that the world had not anticipated a few weeks ...
“It’s not a bailout for the coronavirus. It’s a bailout for twelve years of corporate irresponsibility.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) As details of the Senate’s coronavirus stimulus plan slowly trickled in Wednesday, progressive critics ...
“Being a good citizen is being a good neighbor—so what do ‘good neighbors’ look like in the time of panic buying, hand sanitizer, and physical avoidance?” As we create “social distance” to protect ourselves and ...
“They decimated my entire town. To me, this is just a drop in the bucket for what should be happening to PG&E.” Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary ...
“How can we best help people connect the dots between capitalism, growth, debt, bailouts, war, injustice and fragility? And what alternative narratives can we present for a system focused on better, not bigger?” Let’s be ...
“Uncertainties about the human mind loom large,” she wrote. “Even as some puzzles get resolved, others emerge. And those perennial gaps in knowledge intersect with differing opinions about how far, and in what ways, mental ...
While the mass media is focused on statistics of the spread of coronavirus, the countries closing their borders and declaring quarantines, and ordinary people emptying grocery shelves, those whose lives were already a total nightmare ...
Citizen Truth’s William Bacha spoke to Italian and Spanish citizens about their personal experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. When I walked into the grocery store this morning the front of the store was filled with ...
‘Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers. They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down.” The world is fighting a global pandemic, and the United States is set to become one of ...
“It is the weapons companies, private prisons, and asset management firms like BlackRock that stand to gain a profit from war and migration.” With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling ...
K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened ...
The conditions of this virus have communities rehashing togetherness, and relearning what remains when our money-based lifestyles slow down. In the midst of an international viral outbreak that has people worldwide physically distancing out of ...
A man worth over $100 billion, who makes, on average, $230,000 per minute calling on the public to help his own impoverished employees was not met well by many. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amazon ...
“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, this pandemic will affect us all. And for the world’s most vulnerable, the worst may be yet to come.” Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation has donated ...
“A consequence of the failure of the austerity politics is that ideas that had been unthinkable just a few months ago—such as nationalization of hospitals and provision of substantial income support to unemployed workers—is on ...
“Central to Democrats’ concerns with the legislation was a $425 billion ‘slush fund’ for the Federal Reserve, which it could use to bailout businesses while also withholding the names of those companies for up to six ...
“A coronavirus outbreak in our overcrowded, poorly maintained jails and prison facilities would be devastating, swift, and deadly.” In New York City, 21 inmates and 17 employees at Rikers Island and surrounding facilities have tested ...
Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that accurate news pieces take six times longer to reach 1,500 Twitter users than misleading information. The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has sparked global panic as the ...
“Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a ...
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen’s farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century ...
Bumping elbows at the United Nations. The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to ...
Doctors are warning that the huge numbers of inmates locked inside large communal cells, often with dozens of other people, a perfect breeding ground for disease. (Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Tom Perez sucks and should resign for endangering Democratic Party voters in last Tuesday’s primaries by encouraging them to vote. The Democrats better get things together before November or we could be in trouble.
One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change. Amidst all the terrible news about the spreading coronavirus epidemic, a scintillating fact has emerged that can energize the ...
In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. The ...
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 ...
Reports out of Iran and Venezuela detail the devastating impact American sanctions are having on the two countries as they seek to prevent mass death and overwhelmed health services amid the global Coronavirus crisis. Reports ...
“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the ...
On March 16, 2020, the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva wrote a blog post on the Fund’s website; it represents the kind of generosity necessary in the midst of a global pandemic. “The ...
Workers at the New York fulfillment center denounced the company for reopening the facility just one day after the positive case was reported. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Two days after 1,500 Amazon workers around ...
Cuts to SNAP Delayed, For Now On March 13 a Federal Judge issued a decision to stop a planned rule change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The new rule would have prevented an ...
The spread of COVID-19 has impacted the US economy in unprecedented ways. Even with March 15th’s record-breaking federal interest rate cuts, many homeowners are surprised to find that rates are either higher than expected or ...
“That Tom Perez is encouraging this, and threatening states who postpone in-person voting, is criminal.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Ignoring urgent pleas from medical professionals and other health experts to postpone primary elections amid the ...
The coronavirus is being used to expand mass surveillance. Across the world, governments are turning to extreme measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from closing borders to putting entire countries on ...
“There were people whose lives were in danger, and we acted. Period.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) After two Italian volunteers used a 3-D printer to manufacture a desperately needed ventilator component for those stricken ...
The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the state. The US State Department is turning once again to Iranian civilians to obtain information from within the ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden swept Super Tuesday III and in doing so has likely ended the Democratic presidential primary. Biden won Florida, Illinois and Arizona on Tuesday and has become the undisputed front runner ...
Sharks are killed 30 percent faster than they can reproduce, including for the inhumane fin trade. Every year, fins from as many as 73 million sharks circulate throughout the world in a complex international market. ...
“The healthcare industry will fight any threat to its profits with force and gobs of cash, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They cannot be bargained with. And they must be defeated.” (By: ...
Although the new HBO miniseries “The Plot Against America” is based on a book that was published in 2004 and takes place in the 1940s, it seems to have glaring parallels to today’s political climate. ...
“It’s unthinkable to extend these spying powers to the same agencies that have so often sidestepped safeguards and ignored Americans’ fundamental privacy rights.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Ahead of a vote that could take ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
“If you are at higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19 because of your age or because you have a serious long-term health problem, it is extra important for you to take actions to reduce ...
As citizens in the U.S. heed warnings to distance themselves from others to avoid contracting coronavirus, the movie industry took a hit over the weekend with record low box office sales. In just one week, ...
Google’s description of its Coronavirus efforts falls short of the president’s claims. Verily, a Google sister company under the Alphabet Inc. umbrella, is trying to assist Americans who might be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. ...
The House of Representatives worked through Saturday to pass an emergency relief bill designed to provide increased Corvid-19 testing and paid sick leave for American workers. Although that sounds great in theory, beneath the fine ...
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