The Beginning of the End

“In the absence of popular movements strong enough to rip down marble idols and generate public shame, U.S. history lessons omit everything they can and carefully mold anything so large that it cannot be avoided. A classic example of the latter is the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” (World BEYOND War) The Beginning or the [...]

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Public Outcry Follows Gilead Decision to Charge $3000 for COVID Drug that Costs Pennies to Produce

To make matter worse, Remdesivir is a drug that “has had its development costs paid for, in large part, by independent donors like governments and ministries of health in China, the WHO, and the US government.” (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) California-based pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has announced that a five-day course of its antiviral drug Remdesivir [...]

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Could U.S. Capitalism Turn Nationalist?

The Trump administration has turned sharply toward economic nationalism. It attacks and undermines the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the UN. Trump and other top officials explicitly insult many world leaders. He imposes high tariffs. Official statements renew and sustain Cold War-type attacks on China, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Trump flirts openly with nationalists who [...]

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Trump Threatens to Veto Military Spending Bill Over Confederate Base Names

“The bases were named during the Jim Crow South era and it wasn’t done to respect the African Americans of the South. It was to appease the Jim Crow governments of that era.” The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) usually is passed with minimal politicalization as it contains funding for the the American military. [...]

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Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts, and Broken Promises

Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, “We are ending the era of endless wars.” That [...]

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COVID Masks: The Latest Faux Conservative Outrage

They don’t care about you; they just want the economy opened back up to make money. The bizarre “conservative” idea of “freedom” has struck again. Margaret Sullivan reported in the Washington Post on a new study that shows what we all intuited: people who get their news from Fox and right-wing hate radio—both promoting the idea that [...]

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Venezuela’s Borderlands Have Been Assaulted by COVID-19

Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to nearby countries of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (largely in response to crippling U.S. sanctions) have returned in the last two months via these Venezuelan border states since the COVID-19 crisis exploded in their [...]

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Second QAnon Supporting Candidate Wins House Primary

Republican Lauren Boebert previously made headlines for illegally reopening her gun-themed restaurant during the coronavirus lockdown While some progressive Democratic outsiders have booked victories against stalwart incumbents, outsider Republicans have also produced upset victories over members of Congress. Lauren Boebert, owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, beat five-term incumbent Scott Tipton in Colorado’s 3rd [...]

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The Killing of Ahmad Erekat by Israeli Police Puts Western Media Bias on Full Display

At a time when the world is crying out for justice, it behooves Israel to reverse its destructive policies toward Palestinians – and responsible journalism to ignore the bullies and tell the truth. Menifee, CA (By: Kathryn Shihadah, IAK, Mintpress) — Reuters reported Wednesday on the latest “alleged car-ramming incident” in which a Palestinian was killed at [...]

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Americans With Jobs Are Sharing Their Stimulus Checks With People Out of Work

With unemployment nearing Great Depression levels and many still waiting on any government support, a new person-to-person relief economy is forming. The responses of governments around the world to the pandemic and its resulting economic impacts are revealing and varied. As officials enact measures to keep economies afloat and keep people from financial ruin, unprecedented relief [...]

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With Primary Win, McGrath Has Chance to Dethrone McConnell

“What our numbers show is that voters are fed up with Mitch McConnell continually putting corporate handouts ahead of working people.” In a tight Democratic primary, Amy McGrath defeated Kentucky state Rep. Charlies Booker, The New York Times reported. Although the election took place a week ago, an increased number of mail-in ballots prompted a [...]

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How Movements Can Turn Public Support Into Lasting Change

Taking “movement moments” to change, from the Red Summer to Black Lives Matter. It is said that Mark Twain once quipped that “history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” These days one cannot escape comparisons with 1968, and with widespread civil unrest, troops in our cities’ streets and at war abroad and a rabidly [...]

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