‘No One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed’: Thousands in Spain, UK Rally at US Embassies in Solidarity With America’s Anti-Racist Uprising

“There’s children of all ages and older adults here. They are going to experience what we have experienced and we have to try to make that not happen.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) After the U.S. saw its largest demonstrations yet over the police killing of George Floyd, massive demonstrations kicked off Sunday outside of the [...]

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The Good, the Potential, and What Might Happen

(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial page will defend having done in the way of spreading evil. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what Twitter will [...]

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‘Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,’ Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing

“Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will pay the price.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected [...]

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One of the Least Recognized Major Needs for Society to Survive a Pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt American life, expanding legal services can help Americans endure. Eddie Brown seemed to fit the profile of a federal inmate most eligible for emergency release during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As a survivor of hepatitis C who had served six of his 15-year sentence, Brown should have been a [...]

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Trump’s Use of Religion Follows Playbook of Authoritarian-leaning Leaders the World Over

Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. (Common Dreams) It was a striking moment: Donald Trump, Bible in hand, posing for photos in an apparent moment of political theater made possible by the dispersal of [...]

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On Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, and Challenging Viewpoints

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” That’s Martin Luther King, Jr., folks. (Photo Credit: Rob Bulmahn/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Admittedly, I am sometimes reticent about opining on movements like Black Lives Matter and the types of protests set off by George Floyd’s murder at the hands of uniformed police. I feel that black activists [...]

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Voter Registrations Increase Amid Protests

“It’s happening much sooner in the cycle than you normally see it.” Organizations dedicated to spurring more voter registrations are reporting an uptick due to the George Floyd protests, CNBC reported. Before the protests, advocacy groups had witnessed a downturn in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to NPR. Former President Barack Obama, celebrities [...]

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Progressives in Congress File Resolution Condemning Police Brutality, Racial Bias, War on Drugs

As protests erupted across the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a dozen progressive Democratic House members filed a resolution May 29 condemning police brutality not only in the case of Floyd but also in the case of Breonna Taylor, the black 26-year-old Louisville EMT who was gunned down in [...]

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Police Violence Amid George Floyd Protests Causing Deaths And Serious Injuries

The long list of names killed due to police violence is growing. David McAtee, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd. These are just some of the names of the people killed by law enforcement as anti-racist protests enter their second week across America. When protestors took to the streets seeking justice for George Floyd, the police action [...]

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Police Violence Is Enabled by ‘Liberal’ Politicians’ Massive Spending

George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. Not since the mass protests that originated in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 when a white police officer killed a black man named Michael Brown has the United States witnessed the current magnitude of the movement against police brutality. The brutal [...]

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Our Disaster: Why the United States Bears Responsibility for Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

The policies of the United States are deeply implicated in Yemen’s suffering, including the sale of billions of dollars in munitions to Saudi Arabia and other countries that have intervened in the civil war. (Common Dreams) An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or [...]

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Manipulating the Message: Police Attacks on Free Press and the Fencing in of Humanity

Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The evening before President Trump lumbered over to St. John’s Church for his infamous “photo op,” U.S. Attorney General Bill [...]

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By Pouring Billions Into Fossil Fuel Industry, EU’s Central Bank Accused of ‘Playing Both Firefighter and Arsonist’

“By recklessly buying billions in fossil fuel bonds the bank is propping up the single biggest obstacle to tackling the climate crisis.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After the European Union’s central bank on Thursday approved what Reuters called “a bigger-than-expected” expansion of an economic stimulus package necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, climate campaigners expressed concern that planet-destroying fossil [...]

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Former Defense Secretary Mattis Breaks Silence to Berate Trump

“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote for The Atlantic. Thus began the retired Marine general’s sharply critical take on President Donald Trump’s response to protests over the alleged murder of George Floyd. The statement, entitled “In Union There Is Strength,” followed on the heels [...]

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The Charge of Racism is Partially Right and Partially Wrong

The charge of racism is partially right and partially wrong. The murder of George Forbes is a malevolent metaphor of life in the United States under the ruling class. Racism is a huge part of that larger class warfare being waged by those in power on those with less than. Less money, less education, less housing, less everything Except the power to protest inequity and inequality with people power.

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