By Guest Post on May 26, 2020 09:21 am
 “The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They did not care.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage posted to social media Tuesday morning shows a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the back of a handcuffed black man’s neck as he [...]
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By Alec Pronk on May 26, 2020 07:33 am
 An environmental photographer filed the copyright claim directly with YouTube YouTube took down a Michael Moore-produced documentary “Planet of the Humans” after a British photographer launched a copyright claim against the film. But Moore argued the controversial film was the target of politically-motivated censorship. In a statement the film’s director Jeff Gibbs said, “this attempt [...]
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By David Swanson on May 26, 2020 06:00 am
 Dan Kovalik’s new book, No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests — which I am adding to my list of books you should read on why war should be abolished (see below) — makes a powerful case that humanitarian war no more exists than philanthropic [...]
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By Guest Post on May 25, 2020 03:52 pm
 The lives of civilians in Aden are being pushed into the abyss not only due to epidemic, disease, and fallout from flash floods but because of violent clashes between opposing factions of the Saudi-led Coalition. (By: Ahmed Abdulkareem, Mintpress News) ADEN, YEMEN — Southern Yemen’s port city of Aden is quickly becoming the new epicenter [...]
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By Jack Xiong on May 25, 2020 11:54 am
 Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio executive produced a new miniseries about Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States, that premieres on Memorial Day on the History Channel. Based on the critically acclaimed 2017 biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow, “Grant” depicts an individual who embodied some of America’s finest ideals: hard work, [...]
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By Alec Pronk on May 25, 2020 09:33 am
 Biden and policy advisers around him have re-tooled the basic Trump and American foreign policy with slightly friendlier language As America reaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths, President Trump is taking a golf trip and most states have opened up despite new coronavirus cases remaining high. It seems like a slam dunk for the challenger to beat [...]
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By Guest Post on May 25, 2020 06:00 am
 (By: Anthony Pahnke & Jim Goodman, Common Dreams) From wasted food to the exploitation of farmworkers, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that this country’s food system must be changed. Politicians must pass further stimulus legislation that includes policy to reform our inflexible, consolidated food system to prepare for future crises. Consider the [...]
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