“The IMF is anyway very predictable when it comes to their policy recommendations. It’s almost always a combination of austerity, privatizations, revisiting the currency regime.” On Wednesday, the Lebanese government requested the International Monetary Fund ...
On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian ...
“There is much angst in the American mind that Mohammed Allawi, once confirmed as prime minister by the Iraqi parliament, may not only restructure U.S.-Iraqi relations, but eventually take the wind out of the sails ...
The party is using different tools to achieve the same goal as 2016—sidelining Sanders. Yogi Berra, the great Yankees catcher, had the memorable line, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” Bernie Sanders supporters might ...
Candidates Sanders and Warren routinely engage in pure and simple demagoguery, singling out billionaires, wall street and insurance and drug company executives. Is the targeting of such a small group based on their wealth ...
Upon his return to Venezuela, Juan Guaido was greeted by an enraged mob hectoring, jeering and manhandling him, kicking his car and covering him in water and other liquids. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Self-declared ...
“Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives. They want to see more rifts and more chaos in society. ...
“No one should be harassed and forced to spy on their religious community. The FBI agents knew I was vulnerable and that I needed to fly to see my family.” The US Supreme Court will ...
The Centers for Disease Control says 85 million adult Americans are not getting enough sleep and it is contributing to many of our largest healthcare problems. With healthcare remaining highly politicized, the sleeplessness pandemic is ...
“This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
“No one should ever use our nation’s security as a political weapon, let alone the commander in chief” – New York Attorney General Letitia James The Department of Homeland Security recently stopped accepting enrollments by ...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York is now reviewing the investigation of the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X that could potentially open a re-investigation of the case. The new documentary ...
Touted as “a new perspective as wounded survivors and grieving relatives from three recent massacres relive the moment their lives changed forever”, the 90-minute documentary isn’t an overt political rallying cry, but focuses on the ...
“95% of your murders…fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, sixteen to twenty-five… that’s true in virtually every city,” ...
There have been some interesting and unexpected developments in how the U.S. is planning to make 5G wireless technology a reality this week. U.S. AG Advocates for Government Buying Tech Companies Last Friday, U.S. Attorney ...
The opiate epidemic is as strong as ever, there are some not so common ways being used to fight the epidemic, lets look at some of them.
“Ginger tea, yoga, etc are symptomatic treatment methods – they’re good in helping boost your immunity. But it’s not a proper cure. A proven cure for Coronavirus has not been found yet.” The New Coronavirus ...
“ISIS has already rebuilt its forces and it’s moving to the offensive … only this time militants are better trained, better equipped, and they are no longer interested in engaging the military in frontal attacks ...
“Californians should be forewarned that if they want to vote for someone outside the centrists — say, Bernie Sanders — they need to change their party affiliation to either Democrat or No Party Preference. But ...
We paid for hundreds of thousands in coverage and are legally owed, but our insurer refuses to pay us. On November 8, 2018, I was trapped in my car as embers fell all around me ...
“This…truly proves that industry, not the people, can control the province and its laws.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have arrested over 20 protesters of a pipeline that would cut through the land of ...
“It was very lengthy screening with no ability to leave. So whether you want to call that detention or something else is up to you. But the core fact of the matter remains. This seemed ...
“We’re particularly focused on domestic terrorism, especially racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists. Not only is the terror threat diverse, it’s unrelenting.” The FBI has raised the threat level of white nationalism, Director Christopher Wray ...
The research “adds to a growing body of evidence for alarming, widespread losses of biodiversity and for rates of global change that now exceed the critical limits of ecosystem resilience.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) ...
In a 224-194 party-line vote, Democrats brought workers’ rights to the political forefront as the election season ramps up. The US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at bolstering the power of labor unions ...
“Australia, writes Rick Sterling, should be proud of its three native sons that were willing to speak truth to power no matter the consequences.” (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across ...
The Democratic Party’s top presidential nomination contenders have now engaged in their eleventh debate but, for the most part, kept the gloves on and did not go for the jugular. But of the few shots ...
There is an old saying: “when you come for the king you better not miss.” President Donald Trump proved that theory days after he was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial as he ...
“In the second of a three-part series, Agha Hussein investigates Russia’s financial motivation for teaming up with Israel and wealthy Gulf Arab states to curb Iran’s influence in post-war Syria.” (By: Agha Hussain, Mintpress News) ...
“To have a new record set that quickly is surprising, but who knows how long that will last? Possibly not that long at all.” A record-breaking temperature of 65 degrees was taken at an Argentinian ...
I would really appreciate some serious responses as to why there is such fervent support for President Trump. I am trying to understand what is nearly incomprehensible to me. Especially after the manifesto of misstatements ...
“The administration’s new managment plans “are the latest in a series of insults… that began when Trump illegally dismantled Bears Ears and Grand Staircase at the behest of corporate interests two years ago.” (By: Jessica ...
Libya’s political future has yet to be decided, but it will deeply impact Europe’s future and the battle against Islamic radicalism. A stone’s throw away from Europe, Libya’s internal strife is ringing ever present in ...
An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen in slowing a Houthi advance on al-Qaeda-held territory reports Ahmed Abdulkareem. MARIB, YEMEN (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) An escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes in ...
In alignment with the broader global trend, mainstream German political parties are struggling to maintain support amid the rise of ‘populist’ movements on both the left and right. A long-standing taboo among mainstream German parties ...
Local sources claim the members of the so-called White helmets staged a new video showing the aftermath of “a chemical attack” that allegedly took place in Idlib province in the northwest of Syria. Eyewitnesses indicated ...
This past Sunday on “Fareed Zakara GPS” 2/2/20 President Trump’s senior advisor, Jared Kushner, outlined the litany of accomplishments achieved by his father in law’s administration. Seven million new jobs. Trade deals, unprecedented. The dollar, ...
“Fossil fuels have a PR issue. As long as the market perceives them to be the culprit for carbon emissions, they will have a difficult time.” ExxonMobil’s stock plunged to a nine-year low on Tuesday ...
“It is alarming that Canada is so dead-set on pursuing the TMX when oil prices are declining, forests are burning, and more and more animal species are on the edge of extinction.” (By: Jessica Corbett, ...
“There is no way to build a greener, more inclusive economy without strong, thriving labor unions.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Over 60 environmental groups on Wednesday urged Democratic lawmakers to support the sweeping pro-union ...
“It is genuinely scandalous that the Iowa Democratic Party has only released 75% of the results to the caucus.” “This is scandalous.” “An utter trainwreck.” “The stuff of banana republics.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
“Guaidó’s appearance may only be covered as a footnote in American media, but it illustrates Trump’s campaign strategy and the weakness within the Democratic party establishment in resisting American imperialism.” For many viewers, the most ...
The countries included in Trump’s extended travel ban include Nigeria, Eritrea, Burma, Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania and Sudan. The White House announced on Saturday that six new countries would be added to the list of those whose ...
“That money could be spent on upgrading infrastructure, health service, schools, parks, quality of life. Instead it will be plundered by oil barons.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) International human rights and anti-corruption group Global ...
“For Salamé, who is from Lebanon, this kind of multidimensional conflict is not unfamiliar; nor is it peculiar to have several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends and thereby make peace impossible.” Ghassan ...
“The story centers on an entertainment mogul who terrorizes those who work for him and preys on the young actresses that enter his office looking for their big break. Sound familiar?” With the #MeToo movement ...
SARS, Ebola, Avian Influenza, Dengue Fever, and Rabies are some of the world’s most deadly viruses. The New Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was allegedly first identified in a seafood market that also sells other animals such as ...
“While it may seem like a minor issue of Trump simply insisting he is right and bending public agencies to his will to affirm it, critics argue that inaccurate NWS and NOAA information can endanger ...
“This outfit is inexcusably secretive.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Amid all the finger-pointing and anger that followed the nightmarish Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses Monday night, many journalists and progressive observers honed in on the smartphone ...
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