With Nation Distracted by Public Health and Economic Crises, Trump Moves to Allow GMO Crops in Wildlife Refuges

“Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a public health emergency with the coronavirus, the Trump administration moved quietly on Friday to further threaten dozens of endangered species [...]

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From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia is Creating the Next Fallujah in Yemen

From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen’s farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century to undo. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) AL-JAWF, YEMEN — As the world’s focus turns to the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 pandemic, Yemenis [...]

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UN Chief Warns of Coming Recession for the Planet

Bumping elbows at the United Nations. The United Nations has shut down most of its meetings and all of its conferences, but the world body in New York stays open. There are peacekeeping missions to follow, conflicts around the world and the plight of the millions of refugees from wars that don’t heal. But most [...]

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“A Storm is Coming” – Doctors Warn of COVID-19 Wave Racking US Prisons

Doctors are warning that the huge numbers of inmates locked inside large communal cells, often with dozens of other people, a perfect breeding ground for disease. (Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, doctors across the United States are warning that prisons are a ticking time bomb. Dr. Ross MacDonald, the Chief Medical [...]

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Screw Tom Perez and the DNC

Tom Perez sucks and should resign for endangering Democratic Party voters in last Tuesday’s primaries by encouraging them to vote. The Democrats better get things together before November or we could be in trouble.

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Coronavirus and Climate Change: How Eco-Activists Can Use This Terrible Moment to Help Save the Planet

One major lesson from the pandemic is that we can save the planet from climate change. Amidst all the terrible news about the spreading coronavirus epidemic, a scintillating fact has emerged that can energize the environmental movement: The global slowdown in human activity has given Mother Nature some time to take a much-needed breath of [...]

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Nikki Haley Resigns from Boeing Board In Protest Over Bailout

In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. In an unexpected development, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned from the Boeing Co. board of directors. The company announced the news Thursday. The company is actively advocating for a $60 billion stimulus for the aerospace industry, an [...]

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Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Weaken the School Privatization Agenda

As the COVID-19 epidemic closes public schools, standards, testing, and charters grow increasingly irrelevant. “The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a phone call. Oropeza is a public school mom in Orlando and founder of Fund Education Now, a non-partisan grassroots effort to advocate for public education in [...]

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United States and IMF Condemn Iran and Venezuela to Coronavirus Devastation

Reports out of Iran and Venezuela detail the devastating impact American sanctions are having on the two countries as they seek to prevent mass death and overwhelmed health services amid the global Coronavirus crisis. Reports out of Iran and Venezuela detail the devastating impact American sanctions are having on the two countries as they seek [...]

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Sanders Gets Short with Reporters As Campaign Reaches Likely End

“I’m dealing with a f***ing global crisis.”  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I–Vt., was uncharacteristically short when CNN Reporter Manu Raju grilled him on a timeline for folding his presidential race. The Democratic candidate now faces the stark realization that his second campaign will end in failure. Whether it was that inevitability or the pressure of emergency [...]

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