“The Boiling Point”: Activists, Advocates and Scholars Discuss America’s Race Crisis

Many social, political and economic factors contributed to form the perfect storm that is currently raging across America as police attack peaceful protesters with violent force in the midst of the worst pandemic in recent times. Due to the heroic efforts to share their stories and horrific evidence showing police officers murdering people like George [...]

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Why Federal Stimulus is Always Too Small

The global economic crisis of 2008 should have taught us a lot about how governments cope with major economic shocks, but the level of analysis in 2020 has been abysmal. (Benjamin Studebaker) We never seem to learn anything. The global economic crisis of 2008 should have taught us a lot about how governments cope with [...]

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All We’re Asking Is to Let Us Live: Stop the Money Pipeline Now

If you continue to fund projects that are literally putting our planet, our existence on the line, and defining the existence of our children, then you have left us no choice: that we must put our bodies against the gears of the machine and bring it to a grinding halt. This January, Rev. Lennox Yearwood [...]

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Research Shows ‘Linking Climate Policy to Social and Economic Justice Makes It More Popular’

“The public wants a Green New Deal. The public wants green stimulus. The public wants to address inequality.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amid persistent calls for a green and just recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests against systemic racism and injustice, researchers on Friday detailed recent studies showing “policy packages that address the climate crisis alongside [...]

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As Nationwide Protests Over Police Brutality Continue, Cities Across the US Cut and Reallocate Police Funding

“You don’t have to go full abolition to see that maybe sinking 1/3 of a city’s general budget into police is a problematic investment.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Cities across the U.S. are cutting and reallocating funds from police budgets as calls from an ongoing nationwide uprising over police violence for reimagining the country’s [...]

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Tear Gas, Solidarity and Social Distancing: Citizen Truth Speaks to Activists on the Ground in Columbus and Europe

Citizen Truth spoke to activists and citizens there as well as organizers in Europe about why these demonstrations are important and what needs to change. America is experiencing the global coronavirus at a more extreme level than many other countries, but another pandemic has ravaged the United States since the first day of its creation. [...]

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Not Unlike A Trump Rally

Hours after a CNN reporter was arrested while covering protests in Minneapolis, CBS News reported that an NBC affiliate crew faced its own violent interaction with police in Louisville, Kentucky. While providing live coverage of the protests in Louisville, the city where Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in her own home, a WAVE 3 news reporter and her crew were directly shot with pepper bullets by police outfitted in riot gear.

The video of the Louisville police officer taking aim at a news camera tells a thousand words.

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Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle

The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar’s dream of capturing Tripoli from the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has been dashed. Haftar’s [...]

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Flights Logs Suggest Bolivia Coup May Have Been Planned in Brazil

Flight logs of the Bolivian presidential jet show that on November 11, the day of the coup, the aircraft was not in La Paz or any other Bolivian airport, but flying to Brazil’s capital Brasilia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in November. But new details have emerged [...]

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Judges Strike Down “Ag-Gag” for Violating the First Amendment

States that try to conceal the inherent cruelty of animal agriculture from the public continue to face legal struggles. On January 22, 2020, a federal judge struck down the nation’s oldest “ag-gag” law, the latest in a series of victories against these laws and in favor of the First Amendment right to seek the truth [...]

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More Movies & TV Shows Become Casualties of Cultural Debate in U.S.

The list is growing: several long-running TV shows or movies recently announced major changes or cancellations in their programming, in the wake of the cultural unrest in America. Even cartoon characters were not spared. Earlier this week, it was announced that Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam from the “Looney Tunes Cartoons” would no longer be [...]

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Biden Worries About Trump Stealing Election or Refusing to Leave

“It’s my greatest concern, my single greatest concern: This president is going to try to steal this election.” What keeps Joe Biden awake at night? As a presidential candidate, many matters could weigh heavy on his mind. The Democratic candidate is most concerned, however, that President Donald Trump will try to cheat his way to [...]

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Celebrities Donate to Minnesota Freedom Fund to Bail Out Protestors

The tragic death of George Floyd has sparked controversial protests. Many celebrities are helping out by raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that provides funds to protestors who have been arrested and need to post bail. George Floyd died on May 25 in Minneapolis after a police officer placed his knee on [...]

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