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 ...
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) ...
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) ...
“Unfettered capitalism has brought us to this disaster. We must halt and reverse the privatization of the commons to protect and nurture these natural resources for future generations.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A study ...
The decision to remove the CDC from coronavirus data collection now puts health data further from public view. President Trump’s feud with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) took a new turn yesterday when the ...
On Monday July 13, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement that could set the stage for further conflict in the South China sea. Pompeo firmly rebuffed China’s claims in the region stating, “We ...
These strikes are not isolated events, but thoughtful and organized forms of resistance that demonstrate the life and death risks one faces in detention. (Common Dreams) Dozens of immigrants detained at Mesa Verde Detention Center ...
“Something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you,” Trump said, before not-so-cryptically adding that Washington would be “very much involved.” (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) On a trip to COVID-19 riddled Florida ...
Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country had “gained an important victory in the first ...
Just as we want to radically redefine the role of police in our local communities, so we must radically redefine the role of military personnel in the global community. Since George Floyd was murdered, we ...
“This bill is an egregious handout to giant water corporations which would embolden them to manipulate and fleece struggling communities—particularly communities of color.” (Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Over 300 groups on Monday urged Senate leadership ...
The classic reggae anthem by Bob Marley will be reimagined to benefit children who are affected by the global pandemic, with proceeds going towards UNICEF. According to a UNICEF press release, members of the late ...
In Trump’s latest blow to America’s wildlife, the government wants to allow the worst trophy hunting practices on public lands in Alaska. Our nation’s iconic wildlife is under attack in another inexplicable move by the ...