Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany

From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens [...]

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On the Tara Reade Allegations: It’s Okay Not to Know

Hot takes are a scourge upon opinion journalism and the forming of opinions more generally.

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Unpacking and Understanding Media Bias, Part 10: Fair, Equitable and Balanced – Life and Death of the Fairness Doctrine

The FCC’s 1949 Fairness Doctrine required broadcast television and radio licensees to present controversial issues of public interest in a “fair, equitable, and balanced” manner, but critics have argued that it actually hinders open discourse and promotes forced speech. This is the tenth installment of a Citizen Truth series on the history of media bias [...]

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COVID19 and the Left: an Ignored Civil Rights Crisis

(By: Michael Lesher, OffGuardian) Reading op-eds these days about the grim progress of COVID-19 through the United States, I sometimes have the eerie feeling that I’ve traveled backward in time and landed in some sort of Cold War-like, hyper-conformist dystopia — but with one disquieting difference. As in those dark days, we’re bombarded with warnings [...]

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Fears of Bolsonaro’s Threat to Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55%

“Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Greenpeace on Friday warned of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s attacks on environmental law in his country as new [...]

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Elections Around the World Foreshadow American General Election Woes

By looking at elections around the globe and glimpsing at political maneuvering in the United States, a grim picture of anti-democratic political brinkmanship emerges. As the United States inches closer to the 2020 presidential election in November, the country becomes increasingly likely to fall into the grip of a partisan battle over election logistics. So [...]

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Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism

The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers depending on which choice maximizes employers’ profits. Profit, not the full employment of workers nor of means of production, is “the bottom line” of capitalism and thus of [...]

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Trump Signs Executive Order Greenlighting ‘Corporate Takeover of Our Oceans While They Hope We Aren’t Paying Attention’

“Trump is exploiting a public health crisis to help an industry known for pumping diseases and antibiotics into oceans.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday that environmentalists warned will accelerate the corporate exploitation of oceans by relaxing regulations on and streamlining the construction of industrial offshore aquaculture facilities, [...]

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Now Do You See How Evil They Are?

“What we need is not a little tweaking. We need the revolution of values that many tried to find an approximation of in Bernie Sanders. We need a society that empowers and rewards kindness instead of viciousness, decency instead of outrageous evil.” (David Swanson) The Lieutenant Governor of Texas is happy to sacrifice the lives of [...]

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Consumer Groups Warn Against Shielding Corporate Giants From Covid-19 Liability Lawsuits

“Businesses’ calls for immunity are premised on a false choice between the return to a healthy economy and allowing businesses to be held accountable if they cause people to get sick.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In a joint letter Wednesday to the Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, six consumer rights groups expressed concern that [...]

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The Shadowy World of Information Warfare

Most of the most powerful players in the world of digital surveillance aren’t government intelligence agencies, but private corporations. Technological advances and seismic shifts in the way information is diffused and transmitted have categorized the modern era, drastically impacting on all aspects of modern life. But the consequences of these leaps and bounds can be [...]

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Rare Disease in Kids Possibly Linked to COVID-19

“We are learning that even though children are by and large mildly affected when it comes to COVID-19 that there can be situations that they are more severely affected.” New York State issued a health advisory on Monday for an inflammatory disease affecting children. Officials were initially alerted when 15 kids from ages 2 to [...]

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