By Benjamin Studebaker on Jun 20, 2020 12:00 pm
 (Benjamin Studebaker) All around us, the quarantine is beginning to die. In the United States, the Southern states are slowly abandoning it and many Midwestern states are planning to follow. But it’s not just Republicans. The European states are bailing too. If you ask Democrats why states are beginning to defect, they will tell you [...]
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By Dean Baker on Jun 20, 2020 10:00 am
 It is not just for purposes of getting a vaccine and treatments quickly that we should want fully open research. (Common Dreams) I know I have been pounding on this a lot, but it is important and there is a lot of money at stake. All we need (okay, maybe not all) is some clear [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 20, 2020 09:00 am
 “This late Friday night dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York whose tenure included investigations into a number of allies of President Donald Trump, said Friday night that he has “no intention [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 20, 2020 06:00 am
 American voters now support sweeping changes to policing; 83 percent want a ban on racial profiling, 92 percent want police to be required to wear body cameras and White Americans’ concern over police violence has increased by 50 percent since 2019. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Just four weeks of protest have radically altered Americans’ views on [...]
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By Will Bacha on Jun 19, 2020 05:16 pm
 Stephen is 23 years old and grew up in suburban Chicago but is currently teaching English in Northwestern Spain. He spoke with Citizen Truth about his experiences as a black gay man in America and his thoughts on the current political and social situation in the United States. So I guess to start can you [...]
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By David Swanson on Jun 19, 2020 03:00 pm
 (David Swanson) By peace journalist Salem Bin Sahel from Yemen (@pjyemen on Instagram) and Terese Teoh from Singapore (@aletterforpeace), World BEYOND War, June 19, 2020 These letters are in Arabic here. Yemen war: Letter from a Houthi to a member of Hadi’s govt Dear Salemi, I don’t know how long we have been at war, and still [...]
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By Rupa Marya and Edwin Lindo on Jun 19, 2020 02:00 pm
 We are at a reckoning point in history, where we must decide how we will continue as a nation and how we will continue as inhabitants on this planet that supports all of our lives. (Common Dreams) We met on a foggy spring day in 2016 when Rupa, a physician at the University of California, [...]
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By Dr. Francesca Norton on Jun 19, 2020 11:11 am
 The coming days are crucial for the future of Albania. The European Commission will propose the EU negotiating framework within June 2020. Albania must convince all the EU member states on tangible progress on the 15 conditions set by the Council on 25 March 2020, otherwise, if it will fail to do so, according to [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 19, 2020 09:00 am
 As the nation grapples with long-simmering racial tensions reignited by the murder of George Floyd, a series of suspicious hanging deaths of black men is sparking fears of a new wave of anti-black terror. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amid nationwide demonstrations that have brought racist violence to public attention, at least five black people [...]
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By Tim Koechlin on Jun 19, 2020 06:00 am
 How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality. Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact about the US economy. But remarkably, mainstream economics (that is, the ECON learned by most high school and college students in the US) has very little to say about it. There is, rather, a deafening [...]
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By Guest Post on Jun 18, 2020 05:00 pm
 “EPA has abdicated its responsibility to set federal drinking water standards for a chemical long known to be unsafe.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s EPA on Thursday finalized a rule to roll back regulations of a chemical found in rocket fuel that can cause brain damage in infants. “Today’s decision is illegal, [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jun 18, 2020 01:00 pm
 “The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection using a Nazi concentration camp symbol.” President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign shared a new ad on Facebook using Trump’s typical alarmist language about ‘dangerous mobs’ who are ‘destroying our cities’ and declaring Antifa as a terrorist organization. It is typical rhetoric from the President at [...]
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