Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) On October 18, 2021, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days. This declaration ...
Javiera Reyes, who is 31 years old, is the new mayor of the Santiago municipality of Lo Espejo in Chile. “I grew up in a home where [former President of Chile] Salvador Allende was always ...
Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) Pedro Castillo of the Perú Libre party has already begun to receive congratulations from around the ...
With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: ...
Since the end of April, Colombia’s streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry and tried to suffocate any advancement of the Havana ...
Biden ignores the crisis in Cuba at his own peril. Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign ...
In the face of a state that assassinates its own people, the Colombian people remain on the streets and continue resisting. As police and military forces in Colombia use violence to try to repress the ...
Even before the crisis of the pandemic, food delivery companies have seen their profits skyrocket while their so-called “self-employed” workers suffer rights violations and were banned from unionizing. On February 22, 2019, at 6 p.m., ...
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ. Births and evolutions ...
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President Joe Biden, met for a virtual meeting ...
Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package is necessary for a rapid recovery for all, but it’s only a first step toward attaining broader economic security. The new Democratic administration is poised to make its first proud ...
In Ecuador’s presidential election held on February 7, 2021, Andrés Arauz won the largest number of votes but could not prevail in the first round against 15 other candidates; he won 32.71 percent of the vote, short ...
Twitter’s actions are quite a departure from 2019 when it delayed a network upgrade in Iran at the behest of the US government for fear that it could interfere with anti-government demonstrations. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Protests in Haiti have led to hundreds of deaths yet have drawn little attention in the west, thanks in large part to its strongman leaders’ continued loyalty to the United States. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
Instead of opening doors for American big business or supporting America’s diplomatic position in the world, the U.S. war machine has become a bull in the global china shop, wielding purely destructive power to destabilize ...
Tensions rise between neighboring Guyana and Venezuela over a piece of land that has been disputed since at least 1835. Both Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro have exchanged sharp words about the status of the ...
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 more victims and critics of capitalism coalesce and thereby strengthen one another, the more that economic system is questioned and challenged. That in turn provokes capitalism’s defenders. They increasingly resort to attaching qualifying adjectives ...
Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in wealthy countries cynically set aside ...
Since the 1970s, U.S. real wages have largely stagnated. After a century of real wages rising every decade, that stagnation changed the lives of the U.S. working class in traumatic ways. Likewise, since the 1970s, ...
No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy. The great majority of enterprises will continue to be owned and operated by a small minority ...
We must vigorously advocate for a team that would put an end to the normalization of war and make diplomatic engagement in the pursuit of international peace and cooperation our number one foreign policy priority. Congratulations ...
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. ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“Trump’s erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s trade policies during his first term have “failed to ...
Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon. (Common Dreams) Since I was a child in the 1980’s I have heard calls to protect the Amazon. I remember watching videos ...
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, ...
“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 ...
A new House proposal would ensure that all Americans in hard-hit areas could have a job. A tax on Wall Street windfalls would pay for it. (Common Dreams) The pandemic has claimed nearly 15 million ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) As the coronavirus crisis drags on, it has become popular to declare this to be the death of neoliberalism. If neoliberalism were simply noninterference in the economy, the large stimulus packages passed around ...
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history. Capitalism ...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt American life, expanding legal services can help Americans endure. Eddie Brown seemed to fit the profile of a federal inmate most eligible for emergency release during the ongoing coronavirus ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The “profit incentive,” they learn, makes private capitalism the ...
The United States has decided to play hardball with Mexican authorities rather than working toward a collaborative solution. Despite rising coronavirus cases and deaths in Mexico, American manufacturers and the Trump administration have increased pressure ...
It is a sign of how bad things are when the editorial board of the Financial Times, the world’s leading business newspaper, carries an editorial calling for “radical reforms… reversing the prevailing policy direction of ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
“A consequence of the failure of the austerity politics is that ideas that had been unthinkable just a few months ago—such as nationalization of hospitals and provision of substantial income support to unemployed workers—is on ...
Here in the U.S., Transparency International found that the number of Americans who see “direct action” as the antidote to our corrupt political system has risen from 17 percent to 25 percent since Trump took office. ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
As corrosive as neoliberalism has been to working people in the U.S., it has been far more destructive wherever the U.S. and its allies have tried to impose it by military force. This season could ...
Neoliberalism, the little-understood and misguided economic dogma that has dominated the last four decades. Since the late 1970’s the economic doctrine of neoliberalism has dominated the policy decisions of politicians on both sides of ...
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