Woke capitalists are not socialists in disguise, they represent a very real and dangerous side of contemporary capitalism. (Common Dreams) This month Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of the asset management firm BlackRock, was ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
“If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~ Julian Assange “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” ~ P C Hodgell (Caitlin Johnstone) Human life ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump adviser Jared Kushner are hitting the road in an attempt to strong-arm more Arab states into normalizing relations with Israel, turning their backs on Palestine and isolating Iran. ...
In the rush to vote absentee as the pandemic broke, they didn’t fill out forms to get a mailed-out ballot for the presidential election too. On August 20, the Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that they would send ...
“We cannot have the specter of a disrupted election – an election that doesn’t count all votes – hovering over the election season.” Donning a blue US Postal Service mask, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faced ...
Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread of Ebola. Dr. Báez was one of 165 Cuban doctors of the Henry ...
Joe Biden rates highly with Democratic Party voters on relatability and “get off my lawn” energy. (Photo Credit: Jay Godwin/LBJ Library) Joe Biden began his acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National ...
A pillar of the antiwar movement, Diana Johnstone provides critical insights from her time working in Associated Press and AFP newsrooms in the US and Europe and much more. (By: Rick Sterling, Mintpress News) Diana ...
(Caitlin Johnstone) To oppose power is to set yourself on a collision course with despair. You set out, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, charging full speed at the man all set to overthrow the status quo, ...
“Jacob Blake’s 3 SONS were IN THE CAR he was getting into when Kenosha Police shot him tonight. They saw a cop shoot their father. They will be traumatized forever.” Unrest erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin ...
Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z are weighing in on the plight of black men and women in the United States — through a collaboration on a new song entitled “Entrepreneur”. After the death of George Floyd ...
The Democratic Party avoided the issue of what to do about the gross maldistribution of power between the tiny few and the rest of the people in America. (Common Dreams) A national political nominating convention, ...
“The Democrats are trying to make this a referendum on Donald Trump, not his policies, not the issues, but on Donald Trump himself.” As a celebrity, President Donald Trump has been forced to endure critics ...
Many countries are now experiencing the second surge in cases that medical experts warned would occur if public safety measures and restrictions were lifted too soon. Only roughly 4 percent of the world’s population lives ...
“From the most remote village in the Alaskan tundra to the tiniest island in the Everglades, there’s one connection we’ve always depended on: the mail.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) As of Friday afternoon, more ...
Whether the pandemic’s effect on inequality will be felt for many years to come will depend on whether government action. (Common Dreams) Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. ...
The key message from this year’s DNC is the emphasis the Biden campaign is putting on reaching out to so-called “moderate Republicans,” presenting Trump as an aberration and Biden as the cure. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Near the end of his life Lenin gave a speech that referred to the USSR as a transitional society. He explained that socialists had taken state power and could thereby take the post-revolutionary economy—which he ...
The facts show that Trump is engaged in a child abuse scheme of massive proportions—in violation of the very laws he is claiming to uphold. President Donald Trump thinks of himself as a champion against ...
New figures from the Institute for Policy Studies show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer than ever, adding nearly $700 billion to their fortune since the ...
In the face of a historic public outcry, the postmaster general has promised to stop sabotaging essential services—temporarily. (Common Dreams) Skyleigh Heinen, a U.S. Army veteran who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and anxiety, relies on ...
“If this helps, good… But you can’t buy back trust in government—or the water coming out of your faucet.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Six years after residents in Flint, Michigan began relying on their ...
“It takes those vital, truthful, healthy revolutionary impulses, then twists them around into support for the United States president and the agendas of the Republican Party.” Today the US president moved from tacit endorsement and evading ...
Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday on fraud charges. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) indicted Bannon and three accomplices for allegedly defrauding donors of a border wall ...
“Facebook banning leftwing media is the logical end point of begging a US-based corporate publishing monopoly to arbitrate truth.” Facebook announced yesterday it has removed hundreds of “Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts” connected to ...
Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football is either important ...
Lebanon’s current tragedy is the perfect opportunity for its former colonial masters to stage a comeback. (Common Dreams) French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political ...
According to a new Oxfam analysis, the Saudi Coalition has carried out the equivalent of “one air raid every ten days during the conflict affecting hospitals, clinics, ambulances, water drills, tanks and trucks,” since it ...
Will Americans Buy It Again? (Common Dreams) Joe Scarborough, on his morning TV show, had a roundtable with George Will and David Frum in which these three old conservative war horses discussed the possibility of ...
At the Democratic National Convention, Republicans have found a sizable seat at the table. The biggest headlines out of the virtual Democratic National Convention have been plaudits for Michelle Obama’s speech and more than a ...
A dismantled USPS erodes American social ties, neighborhoods and even families. (Common Dreams) The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of collapse and privatization. This comes after years of federal political maneuvering that has effectively depleted revenues ...
Israeli leaders have characterized the latest bombardment as retaliatory, citing “incendiary balloons” and “riots” as justification. (By: Kathryn Shihadah, Mintpress News) Last Monday night Israeli fighter jets executed airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip for ...
Wisconsin makes a big turnaround, while some issues in Georgia endure. After disastrous primaries in the early days of the pandemic, some of the same states have run better elections in August as voters have ...
Across the U.S., the ice cream truck song is a familiar sound during summer — but it has a racist past. Will drivers stop playing it? The familiar melody is actually called “Turkey in the ...
On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a third presidential term, which should have lasted until January 2020. In November 2019, ...
A Three Percenter asked the witness if he was a member of Antifa and promised him more people would return to his home An armed man and member of the far-right Three Percenter militia showed ...
DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The ...
“The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.” (Caitlin ...
“It’s not normal for a civilization to be dominated by plutocrats and secretive government agencies and to only get offered the choice between two authoritarian corporate warmongers in a pretend election to a position of ...
The national security state is on the verge of a radical transformation. From DHS to the military, the pressure is mounting on all sides to revamp federal law enforcement hierarchies, shift information pipelines, and reimage ...
Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep craters in the U.S. food ...
Ain’t no party like a Klobuchar party ’cause a Klobuchar party don’t ZZZZZZZ… (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Feel the excitement? Not quite. The four-day celebration of the best ...
YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like ...
Boys State is a new documentary that focuses on an annual event where teenagers are brought together for an exercise in government — providing a revealing glimpse into why politics are the way they are ...
Clashes between protesters and government-backed paramilitaries are growing increasingly violent as tensions in Bolivia reach a boiling point following the US-backed Anez administration’s decision to cancel elections for the third time this year. (By: Alan ...
Adequate housing, healthcare, food, public services, education, mass transit, health & safety standards, and environmental protections are the prerequisites for a humane democracy. (Common Dreams) Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are ...
Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, said that neither the ships nor their owners are Iranian but did not address whether the gasoline came from his country. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an escalation ...
“The determination by an independent congressional watchdog today invalidates actions Mr. Cuccinelli and Mr. Wolf have taken and both should immediately step down from their illegal roles.” The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has completed a ...
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