“If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After a U.S. district judge ...
Yoga teachers who work with marginalized communities say the practice is a key way to navigating stress, trauma and disruption. Like many industries, the yoga industry is facing some major upheavals due to COVID-19, with ...
Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him. President Donald Trump’s recent reelection campaign advertisement is straight out of the plot of a horror movie. Just days after he deployed ...
In Minneapolis, an overhaul of police conduct after the killing of George Floyd is inciting controversy among some activists. The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the city’s police department on June 26, a little more than ...
Americans may soon be able to import prescription drugs from Canada, courtesy of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday. Restructuring America’s Pharmaceutical Industry Americans may soon be able to import prescription ...
“Free” and “unregulated” markets simply do not define capitalism, and are not marked by anything like “liberty.” Capitalism is not, as its defenders like to claim, defined by “free” or “private” enterprises. Likewise, “free” or ...
A “tsunami” of evictions is about to sweep across the United States when the 120-day moratorium ends today, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness or worse – a new set of landlords called Facebook, Google ...
As national protests call to defund and dismantle police departments, existing alternatives to police offer potential beacons for the way forward. This is a moment of contention and restructuring in America. Mass public outcry is ...
“This turns journalists into an arm of the government. We are not here to do surveillance for police.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Journalists and civil liberties advocates alike condemned a ruling Thursday by a ...
Democrats in Chicago, Kansas City, and Albuquerque have struggled to respond to Trump sending in federal agents. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump offered some details on Operation Legend, a federal law enforcement operation in Chicago, ...
“Actions of this kind threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends.” Space, once reserved for communication ...
What we are now witnessing is an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of human beings desperately seeking safety and a better life. (Common Dreams) It’s hard to know exactly where the ...
“With private debt funds, there is no bank involvement and no involvement with any institution subject to regulatory review. No information seeps out of this black hole.” The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned in ...
The National Priorities Project has put together a list of ten better uses for the $74 billion than giving it to one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The majority of House ...
The Kentucky Attorney General’s lawsuit not only targets Wall Street’s predatory pension management practices, but singles out Blackstone CEO and top McConnell and Trump donor Steve Schwarzman. In a surprise move on Wednesday, Kentucky Attorney ...
“The order to close the consulate, one of six China operates in the US in addition to its Washington embassy, came directly from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.” In the latest escalation of tensions with ...
“Reparations have been paid out to several groups in the United States in the past so it’s not something that’s unheard of and it’s definitely not something that’s a radical idea.” Many Americans are dismissive ...
“This shows clearly that Israel doesn’t care about Palestinian lives…They can’t even give us our basic rights to healthcare so we can treat our people from the coronavirus.” –Tayseer Abu Sneineh, Mayor of Hebron (By: ...
In an article in Foreign Affairs in March titled, “Why America Must Lead Again,” Joe Biden claimed that “the world doesn’t organize itself,” and promised to “put the U.S. back at the head of the table” among the ...
Florida’s large population and its status as a swing state means that the prohibition on felons’ voting has national impacts. On July 16 the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, which will likely prevent ...
Video shows Trump supporters with a Confederate Flag on their truck attack Black Lives Matter protesters Counter-protesters and President Trump supporters attacked Black Lives Matters protesters in Teller County, Colorado on Friday. Video evidence shows ...
The state’s Republican leadership did nothing to prevent this democratic disaster from happening, even though it had happened before, just two years ago. (Common Dreams) As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a ...
“Neal is one of the most powerful members of Congress, and it’s clear he’s using that power to benefit Wall Street fund managers instead of regular Americans.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Rep. Richard Neal, ...
Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital ...
Bustling civet cat attractions are breeding grounds for disaster. This may seem hard to swallow, but the world’s most expensive coffee is made out of poop. Kopi luwak comes from coffee beans digested and excreted ...
Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, ...
A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot to ...
A study conducted by MintPress’ Alan Macleod revealed that both MSNBC and Fox News intentionally slanted their coverage to highlight Epstein’s links to either Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The ...
Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. (Common Dreams) U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. ...
“They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David. (By: Jon Queally, Common Dreams) The U.S. Navy veteran who was brutally attacked by unidentified federal police in Portland, Oregon ...
Esther Salas’s son was killed and her husband injured four days after she was assigned the case of a lawsuit shareholders launched due to Deutsche Bank’s role in Epstein’s finances Five days ago, US District ...
Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. announced on Twitter that he wants to launch a conservative movie studio geared towards content that he believes Hollywood would normally avoid. “To all conservative producers who want to make a ...
Try to reform the Democratic Party from within or start a new party and overcome the two-party system of electoral dominance? It’s a fundamental question for leftists in the United States and one that hasn’t ...
“As many as 12,000 people could die every day from COVID-linked hunger, which is more than those dying daily from the virus itself,” warns Oxfam America President Abby Maxman. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The consequences ...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us. Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying ...
“They want to see what they can get away with before launching into other parts of the country.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage and first-hand accounts of unidentified federal law enforcement officials snatching up Black Lives ...
“I had a staff sergeant when I was a young officer who actually told me that at Fort Bragg. He said he went to work every day on a base that represented a guy who ...
Anyone entertaining serious hopes for significant reordering of the American economy, of our race relations, of energy production and transportation, eventually realizes that all of this will require a simultaneous demilitarization of both our economy ...
A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
“This is an actual threat to political speech: badegeless, nameless, masked federal officers assaulting, and snatching-up protesters in Portland.” Federal agents in camo gear have been seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon pulling antiracism ...
What can make this moment’s passion positive? What can make this moment’s anger future-seeking? COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a ...
America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control. When schoolchildren across the United States began their ...
(World BEYOND War) Nicholson Baker’s new book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, is staggeringly good. If I point out any minor complaints with it, while ignoring, ...
“Stepien has less than four months to turn the Trump campaign around. A large focus will be toward securing battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.” President Donald Trump made a drastic change to ...
“Eviction is a very public experience that impacts the entire community. Your belongings are dumped on the street while your children and neighbors watch. Given the high degree of tension we are already experiencing, I ...
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a ...
Last year, at least 30 rich countries exported locally-banned toxic substances to poorer ones, allowing corporations to write off their costly waste and transferring the costs to some of the poorest people on earth. (By: ...
The fact that climate plans from the House Democrats and the “unity task forces” set up by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are better than anything we’ve seen in over a decade does not make ...
“We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed,” said Earthjustice. “We’ll be seeing them in court.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) ...
Taylor’s death at the hands of police officers on March 13 has prompted protests, but so far no officers have been charged. Demonstrations over Kentucky’s handling of the alleged murder of Breonna Taylor continued Tuesday. ...
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