By Normon Solomon on May 23, 2020 02:43 pm
 While negative coverage of Donald Trump has been common due to his handling of the pandemic, media outrage has been muted in relation to the magnitude of the dying in our midst. (Common Dreams) Journalists aren’t supposed to “bury the lead.” But when death is the topic and corporate power is the culprit, the connection [...]
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By Nola Hynes on May 23, 2020 01:55 pm
 The Airports Council International (ACI) World and International Air Transport Association (IATA) outlined their recommendations for safely reopening air travel amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in a paper released this week. The Airports Council International (ACI) World and International Air Transport Association (IATA) outlined their recommendations for safely reopening air travel amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in [...]
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By Joseph Mangano on May 23, 2020 10:14 am
 Joe Biden is the Democratic Party presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders gave up the fight and endorsed him, and Elizabeth Warren has evidently abandoned her principles to try to become Biden’s VP pick. So yeah, a great time for progressives on the national stage. (Photo Credit: Phil Roeder/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Speaking as a progressive, the fight [...]
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By Daniel Davis on May 23, 2020 08:00 am
 “Today I’m identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues and mosques — as essential places that provide essential services.” Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and shutdown culture became standard fare, calls to reopen churches have increased. Now, US President Donald Trump has added his voice to those outcries and declared churches as essential services, the [...]
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By David Swanson on May 23, 2020 06:00 am
 (David Swanson) John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and this TED Talk, has a new book called Touching the Jaguar. You can pre-order it here and get an online workshop and other bonus materials that I haven’t seen but recommend purely on the basis of having read the book. Perkins also is doing an online workshop in [...]
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By Guest Post on May 22, 2020 01:56 pm
 A group of Hindu policemen in central India beat a diabetic man seeking treatment at a hospital after they mistook him for a Muslim man because of his beard. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) In the late afternoon of March 23, 32-year-old lawyer Deepak Bundele was on his way to a hospital in Madhya Pradesh [...]
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By Ondine Sherman on May 22, 2020 12:00 pm
 Importing kangaroo meat and skins must be banned in the EU, but Americans can also help protect this iconic species. Before the global pandemic turned the world swiftly on its head, another disaster unfolded with fatal consequences: the Australian bushfires. Flames blazed destruction across our island continent destroying lives, homes and wildlife. Then, as is [...]
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By Thom Hartmann on May 22, 2020 10:00 am
 What do you call a crisis that kills a hundred thousand Americans? It all depends on who does the dying. At first, it seemed like it was mostly white people infected and/or killed by the coronavirus. As the scale of the coronavirus pandemic dawned on Americans during the month of March, most of the media [...]
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By Nola Hynes on May 22, 2020 08:34 am
 This is the seventh and final article in series about the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee’s Shark Tank Initiative Hearing. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 , Part 6 Regarding Schools and Universities Re-opening With schools, colleges and universities across the country indefinitely closed, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) wanted [...]
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By John Bos on May 22, 2020 07:49 am
 Earth Day was different this year. Filmmaker Michael Moore released his bombshell climate change documentary, Planet of the Humans, on YouTube on April 21, the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film argues that many of us having been living in the illusion that renewable energy can replace fossil fuels as our primary energy sources. The documentary claims that the climate movement has been bought and sold by billionaire capitalists. And that the only reason environmentalists don’t talk about population control is because “it would be bad for business.”
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By Jack Xiong on May 22, 2020 06:00 am
 An Alaska school board that was in the national spotlight after removing five books from its high school reading list has rescinded its vote. In April, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Palmer, Alaska, voted to have five books removed from the district’s curriculum for high school English elective courses. Palmer is 40 miles from [...]
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By Daniel Davis on May 21, 2020 03:12 pm
 “I think we have a very good relationship with Russia. But Russia didn’t adhere to the treaty. So until they adhere we will pull out,” Trump said. For 30 years, the Treaty on Open Skies allowed nations to fly unarmed surveillance flights over each other to scan for military buildups. The agreement brought together 35 [...]
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