5 Ways to Boost Your Immune System

Imagine your immune system as your body’s defense mechanism. Typically, it does a remarkable job of protecting you against invadersーmicroorganisms that cause disease. However, at times, the immune system falls short, letting an invader in, resulting in illness. To ensure your immune system is able to perform, it’s important you make choices that strengthen it [...]

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As Oil Prices Fall Below $0 Per Barrel, Climate Advocates Urge Against Fossil Fuel Industry Bailout

“The oil price collapse creates a historic opening: a public buyout of the fossil fuel sector to enact a managed decline of extraction and ensure a just transition for workers and communities.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) The price of U.S. crude oil collapse to below zero for the first time on record, falling to negative-$37 per [...]

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On Integrity: The View from Bryan-College Station

At the end of the day, there is no substitute for integrity.

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Experts Warn: Years of US Intervention Have Set the Stage for a Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak in Haiti

Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) For a population of 11 million people, Haiti has only 62 ventilators and barely 100 intensive care beds. The Caribbean nation spends [...]

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Economic Effects of COVID-19 Hit US Hourly Workers Hard

While the economic fallout of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is not yet fully understood, it is safe to say that the effects will be severe. Around the world, governments are providing bailouts and promising to pay portions of employees’ wages, but to varying degrees. What is becoming clear is that your financial situation during this [...]

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‘Minority Report Union-Busting’ Tactics at Whole Foods Decried Following Reporting on Company’s Labor Activism Heat Map

The company, which is owned by Amazon, uses factors like race, turnover, and “loyalty” to determine each store’s score. (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Progressives on Monday criticized Whole Foods, the grocery chain owned by Amazon, for using a heat map to track potential union activity at its stores across the U.S.—relying on data around [...]

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What On Earth?

Written with Earth Day in mind:

Carl Sagan in his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human in Space, wrote Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Therefore, we have to help ourselves meaning that every single country needs to act on climate change if human civilization itself can be sustained. The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit reported that the entire world needs to go carbon zero by 2050 to stand a chance. There is simply no time to argue about which country is more responsible for carbon emissions - every single country has to step up to the plate.

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With Anti-Asian Discrimination on the Rise, Biden Plays into Trump’s Anti-China Rhetoric

“These things are happening daily — it’s getting a lot more dangerous,” Eddie Song told NBC News after he and his wife were told by a man that Asians caused coronavirus. With the competition out of the way, the Biden campaign has turned its focus to Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic. As COVID-19 [...]

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Congress Preparing Next Relief Package for Small Businesses and Hospitals

Bipartisan efforts in Congress could result in another relief package this week. President Donald Trump and leaders from both parties have spoken optimistically about the prospect of passing a $450 billion aid package designed exclusively for small businesses and hospitals.  Refilling the Tank The package will replenish the small business loan fund that was established [...]

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As Food Banks Face Shortages and Fresh Produce Rots, Pandemic Spurs Calls for Sustainable Supply Chain

“To truly be resilient, our system must shift to one that relies on small and medium producers and independent, responsible operations.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) U.S. food pantries have faced unprecedented demand while billions of dollars in produce has gone to waste due to supply chain disruptions from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic—conditions that are [...]

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