USDA’s $19 Billion in COVID-19 Relief for Farmers and Food Banks Sparks Questions About Who Will Benefit

The new plan, says the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, “lacks critical details to confirm whether it will actually reach all who need it.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) While some industry trade associations, hunger relief organizations, and federal lawmakers welcomed the Trump administration’s new pledge to provide $19 billion in relief from the coronavirus pandemic to farmers and [...]

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Judges Rule Against Epstein Victims In Ruling To Uphold Plea Deal And Protect Accomplices

“This is impossible to understand — the government intentionally misled the victims but found a way to get away with it by working with a child molester to get around the law. And the judges ruled in their favor. How?” A three judge panel ruled on Wednesday to uphold serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s secret 2008 [...]

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BJP Capitalizes on Coronavirus Fears to Take India’s Fascist Creep to the Next Level

India is accelerating down the track of religious strife, and the government itself is driving the vehicle. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Last week, 22-year-old Dilshad “Mehboob” Ali was dragged into a field on the outskirts of Delhi and beaten with sticks and shoes by an enraged crowd demanding to be told, “who else is [...]

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Why the OPEC+ Deal Is a Many-Splendored Thing

A perfect deal is where all protagonists get something out of it. All oil-producing countries stand to gain if the oil price rebounds. In bare bones, the OPEC+ group led by Saudi Arabia and Russia finalized, in a nail-biting photo finish on April 12, an agreement to steeply cut oil production by a combined 9.7 million barrels [...]

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Enough with the Vote Shaming Already

It's Joe Biden's ultimate responsibility to sell voters on Joe Biden .

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Emerging Climate-Fueled Megadrought in Western US Rivals Any Over Past 1,200 Years: Study

“We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we’re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The western United States is likely being gripped by an “emerging” megadrought partly fueled by the climate crisis, says a study published Friday. [...]

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NASA and SpaceX Announce Manned Spaceflight, Ending Decade-Long Gap of American Launches

“It’s going to uplift America. We need that moment right now in American history.” Since July 8, 2011, no US spacecraft has ferried Americans into space. When Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center 13 days later, it ushered in the longest gap in manned spaceflight for NASA. Before the Space Shuttle program, American [...]

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GOP Tax Cuts in Coronavirus Relief Bill Give 82% of Benefits to Millionaires and Billionaires

A new report suggests that a tax cut quietly inserted into the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act will add almost $170 billion to the deficit over the next ten years and overwhelmingly benefit the ultra-wealthy. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Hidden away in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is [...]

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Who Is To Blame For Violence In Lithuania

Lithuania is used to maintain national security and defence relying on NATO allies in many ways. Such approach helps to save money and receive political preferences within the Alliance. Thus, the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup, as well as U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry [...]

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Is There Any Better Time Than Now For a General Strike?

May Day offers a perfect opportunity to reshape labor relations during this pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the inequalities baked into the U.S.’s capitalist system—one that deems nurses and grocery workers “essential,” but leaves them with just as few rights and privileges as they had before the crisis struck. The scenario [...]

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‘Victory’: After Outrage Over Seizure of Coronavirus Relief Payments From Veterans, USAA Reverses Course

The move by USAA, while welcomed, only makes the case for more oversight. Update… (By: Jake Johnson, Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Hours after David Dayen reported Thursday at The American Prospect that USAA was seizing coronavirus stimulus money from veterans with accounts at the financial institution, the bank reversed course, telling Dayen in a statement that the money [...]

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