Government Watchdog Sounds Alarm Over Appointment of Former Pharma Executive to Trump’s Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force

“If the Trump administration approaches vaccine development as it has Covid-19 prevention, testing and treatment, the world may be in for years of more extraordinary pain,” said Public Citizen. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday condemned the Trump administration’s reported appointment of a former pharmaceutical executive to the White House’s [...]

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Australia Attempts to Beef Up Surveillance State

“[The] ASIO bill amendment [is] one more step towards a totalitarian state.” On Wednesday, the Australian government put forward a bill in parliament to give more power to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) including questioning children starting at the age of 14. The bill would also expand the security group’s power and access to [...]

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Civilian Taxi Driver Shot, Killed by US Military in Deir Ezzor

Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict Yasser Aslan used to teach programming. With the war and ever dwindling economy, Yasser, the only breadwinner in the family of six, had to look for additional sources of income. As thousands of other Syrians, he turned his car – a KIA Rio – into a taxi, and [...]

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American Weapons Manufacturers Are Thriving Even as the US Economy Suffers

Washington has made it a priority to radically overhaul the military in double time, designating weapons manufacturers as “essential” services during the pandemic. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The economy has crashed. A nationwide pandemic that has (officially) claimed some 84,000 Americans has also resulted in an estimated 36 million filing for unemployment insurance and millions [...]

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South Dakota Governor Offers Compromise on Tribal Coronavirus Checkpoints

“It wasn’t until checkpoints come about, then all of a sudden we’re a focus, a center of attention. You know we’ve been wanting assistance for test kits, we’ve been wanting assistance with (personal protective equipment), we’ve been wanting assistance to get more hospital beds built on our reservations.” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem informed a [...]

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Can Democracy Survive Bill Barr?

Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. In any other time, a national security adviser who who acted this [...]

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Is it OK to Pick A Scab?

The worst-case coronavirus scenario is not the mass deaths it is causing. It is that people are being led to accept mass death - to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as “just how it is.” That is the conservative rationale now being sold to us.

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‘Massive Giveaway to Health Insurance CEOs’: Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry

“We’re facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership to support an emergency expansion of Medicare coverage to the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs [...]

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Largest Solar Project Ever in U.S. History Approved

The largest solar project in U.S. history was just approved. On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) gave approval for a 690-megawatt (MW) Gemini Solar + Battery Storage project the be built in Clark County, Nevada. Gemini Construction on Gemini will begin later this year and [...]

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Artists Spark a Challenge to Gentrification in Oakland

The new documentary “Alice Street” explores an iconic mural project, the high-rise that covered it up and the communities it catalyzed to action. “Love, arts, music.” These three words are painted in capital letters across the top of the “Universal Language” mural in downtown Oakland, California. The people and scenes that make Oakland an iconic [...]

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Why Capitalism Can’t Cure Global Pandemics

Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third plague” (because it was “the third major bubonic plague outbreak to affect European society”) killed millions from the 1890s to the 1950s [...]

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Pelosi Unveils $3 Trillion Stimulus Package, but Faces Senate Pushback

The House is scheduled to vote on the $3 trillion economic relief bill Friday, but even if it passes, it faces challenges from the Republican-controlled Senate, according to POLITICO. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi revealed the details of another stimulus package Tuesday. The House is scheduled to vote on the $3 trillion economic relief [...]

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What on Earth Is the U.S. Doing by Bombing Somalia?

The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. At stake are many thousands of lives. The public statistics show a considerable increase [...]

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