By Ravi Mangla on Jul 04, 2020 09:00 am
 From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change. (Common Dreams) For decades, we’ve been told that policing is a public good: available to all, for the benefit of all. But in practice, that’s never been true. One of the basic measures of a “public good” is [...]
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By Joseph Mangano on Jul 04, 2020 06:00 am
 Where are your masks? Why are you sitting so close together? AHHHHH! (Photo Credit: Shealah Craighead/Official White House Photo) No one in their right mind would’ve wished for a deadly global pandemic like the one we’re experiencing now. The ultimate hope of many, meanwhile, is that we might learn something, anything about how to live [...]
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By Michael Galant on Jul 03, 2020 03:40 pm
 The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change. (Common Dreams) The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would see the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. This week, they announced that it will be even worse than they thought. [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Jul 03, 2020 01:00 pm
 “Isn’t the hallmark of due process the notion that people require notice and that the citizenry has a right to know what their legislatures are voting on? How does this not fly in the face of due process?” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a new abortion law after the state’s supreme court blocked a similar [...]
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By Guest Post on Jul 03, 2020 10:00 am
 The latest scandal, like others before it, is based on scant testimony by anonymous officials and has had the effect of pushing liberal opinion on US foreign policy into a far more hawkish direction. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Based on anonymous intelligence sources, The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal released bombshell reports alleging that [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jul 03, 2020 08:00 am
 “This is a dire health and safety emergency because the state is not taking care of workers at Tesla” Tesla employees and members of a workers’ rights group accused car company Tesla of a coronavirus cover up, with over 30 employees testing positive at Tesla’s Fremont plant. According to Courthouse News, Tesla employees Carlos Gabriel [...]
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By Robert C. Koehler on Jul 03, 2020 06:00 am
 Change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up. Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names from American institutions . . . and the ghosts of the past start to escape from history, filling the present [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Jul 02, 2020 02:00 pm
 “More than ever, we’re concerned about the worsening health situation and its impact on the burgeoning recovery. Rebounding mobility and poor use of protective equipment will make for a dangerous summer cocktail.” At a White House press conference Thursday, President Trump alongside his two chief economic advisors celebrated a healthy June jobs report. Although the [...]
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By Brett Wilkins on Jul 02, 2020 12:14 pm
 Prominent international critics have called the ongoing Zionist colonization of Palestine an act of ethnic cleansing and the exclusively Jewish settlements a form of apartheid. (Common Dreams) A prominent Canadian human rights lawyer has submitted a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate senior US and Israeli officials for alleged war crimes committed [...]
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