Cuba, like every other country on the planet, is struggling with the impact of COVID-19. This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade ...
Wet markets are perfect breeding grounds for pathogens that can jump from animals to humans. The exact origin of the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which started the COVID-19 pandemic, is still unclear. Early reports suggested that ...
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries. Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us ...
After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools. In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect ...
Biden kicked off his campaign by telling wealthy donors that “nothing would fundamentally change” under his presidency. After one month in office, it appears as if that is one campaign promise he is likely to ...
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted ...
“The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat.” The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat. He and his GOP had shown little grasp of ...
“If you can’t get a Covid test or find an N95, it’s because these contractors stole from the American people to make faster jets and fancy uniforms.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Instead of adhering ...
In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with U.S. President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that the virus was virulent, but he decided to ...
Our richest corporations are much to blame for the free-market “winner take all” philosophy that has caused over half of our nation to try to survive without adequate health care and life savings. (Common Dreams) When Dr. ...
In the COVID era, growing food locally has become more essential than ever. When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she’s in the middle of placing an ...
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 ...
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, ...
The conditions of isolation foster not only physical but also psychological violence, which can be even more devastating for the victims. (Common Dreams) One of the most neglected consequences of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 is ...
“Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation’s inoculation is safe for a mass audience, despite the fact that it has not yet finished its final round of testing.” As the world races to develop ...
“Anything that’s going on social media that’s negative or alike without permission, photography, that’s video or anything, there will be consequences.” Autumn normally is a time for schools to welcome back students, but during the ...
“This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail.” Many of the states to have the first schools reopen in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic have faced multiple growing pains. The growing laundry ...
“Everywhere you look, the common thread across all plots and subplots of the story of 2020 is revelation. The movement from the unseen to the seen, from the unconscious to the conscious.” (Caitlin Johnstone) 2020 ...
“It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits.” (By: Lisa Newcomb, Common Dreams) As Covid-19 cases and deaths ...
“I do not want to be an experiment.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The hashtag #DemandSafeSchools lit up Twitter on Monday as teachers and students in districts across the country took part in protests over ...
Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great alarm—that ...
The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet. Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election ...
“We are going very quickly. I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccine.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences. The term “zoonotic disease” wasn’t a hot topic of conversation before the novel coronavirus started spreading across the ...
Not only are deaths up, but the state’s positivity rate is pushing 20% as Tropical Storm Isaias approaches. On the same day 216 Floridians died from the coronavirus, officials announced they would close all state-run ...
The federal moratorium on evictions expired this week, leaving 12 million renters at risk of losing their homes, and much as they did with healthcare, Democrats are offering little more than token non-solutions. (By: Alan ...
The pandemic provides an opportunity to choose not to return to capitalism and its failures. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, the number of coronavirus cases being reported worldwide remains significant. For example, ...
Three weeks away from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) a group of delegates are poised to withhold support for Biden as the presidential nominee unless the party changes the platform to include Medicare for All ...
Yemen is being devastated by brutal war and COVID. They do NOT need an oil spill poisoning their coasts on top of everything else. A degenerating Yemeni oil tanker sitting miles off the coast of ...
Author Max Brooks is making headlines for suggesting that Hollywood could help relay the message of scientists during the global pandemic. It’s somewhat fitting, since the COVID-19 virus has the cinematic sweep of an apocalyptic ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The proposed policy throws the lives of hundreds of thousands of students, and the operations of hundreds of colleges and universities, into uncertainty just weeks before the start of the fall term, to the detriment ...
“It’s still not too late to avoid the worst effects of the #ClimateEmergency. But governments need to act NOW,” tweeted Greenpeace. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As a United Nations agency released new climate projections ...
The debate over the size of the next stimulus round has quickly devolved into a partisan issue that could jeopardize Pelosi’s deadline of end of July. Although businesses received multiple rounds of coronavirus relief funding, ...
Trump held rallies in Tulsa and Phoenix where coronavirus cases are spiking. The director of the Tulsa Health Department said a rise in his county’s number of coronavirus cases is likely connected to several large ...
A cornerstone of orthodox economics is the idea that capitalists’ decisions about investing and producing are inherently “efficient.” This means that capitalists select among all alternative courses of action those whose costs are minimal and ...
As the coronavirus reshapes many aspects of life, it has come time for schools to contemplate when and how to safely reopen for the fall semester. President Donald Trump strongly feels schools should reopen or ...
“PPP was sold to the American people as a program to help Mom-and-Pop shops keep their lights on during the pandemic. The reality is that the Trump administration created a program that helped the well ...
The horror of the coronavirus pandemic proves that progressives have been justified in demanding a single-payer health care system. A pandemic is not the time to be having discussions about how to design a national ...
“More than ever, we’re concerned about the worsening health situation and its impact on the burgeoning recovery. Rebounding mobility and poor use of protective equipment will make for a dangerous summer cocktail.” At a White ...
They don’t care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money. The bizarre “conservative” idea of “freedom” has struck again. Margaret Sullivan reported in the Washington Post on a new study that ...
Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to nearby countries of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (largely in response to ...
“We are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals, with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife, may act as the source for important pandemic viruses.” (By: Julia ...
“Taxpayers provided funding for the development of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Consumer advocates reacted with disgust Monday ...
“Most researchers estimate that we will not have a viable COVID-19 vaccine until 2021, at the earliest.” In total, the United States has had over 2.4 million confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) cases since the onset of the ...
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