Aid Groups Call for Worldwide COVID-19 Bailout Amid Fears of Mass Hunger

“As many as 12,000 people could die every day from COVID-linked hunger, which is more than those dying daily from the virus itself,” warns Oxfam America President Abby Maxman. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have already devastated the world. Over 14 million people have tested positive for the virus, and [...]

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The Disastrous Handling of the Pandemic Is Libertarianism in Action—Will Americans Finally Say Good Riddance?

We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us. Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying group called the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) came up with the idea of creating a political party to justify deregulating [...]

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After Trump Deploys Secret Police in Portland, ‘Imagine What Happens If He Gets Four More Years’

“They want to see what they can get away with before launching into other parts of the country.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage and first-hand accounts of unidentified federal law enforcement officials snatching up Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon and throwing them into unmarked vehicles drew nationwide attention and outrage Friday, with members of [...]

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Confederate Flags Banned on Military Bases in Pentagon Policy

“I had a staff sergeant when I was a young officer who actually told me that at Fort Bragg. He said he went to work every day on a base that represented a guy who had enslaved his grandparents.” Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum in the wake of the murder of George [...]

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Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan and Germany Is Still a Good Idea

Anyone entertaining serious hopes for significant reordering of the American economy, of our race relations, of energy production and transportation, eventually realizes that all of this will require a simultaneous demilitarization of both our economy and our role in the world. (Common Dreams) May as well get right to the point – so far as [...]

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New Tech Company Partnership to Offset Responsibility for Public Safety and Health onto AI

A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The transition from a manned police force into an AI-assisted panopticon through which populations are monitored 24/7 is occurring at [...]

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Federal Officers Snatch Portland Protesters Off Street and Into Unmarked Cars

“This is an actual threat to political speech: badegeless, nameless, masked federal officers assaulting, and snatching-up protesters in Portland.” Federal agents in camo gear have been seen on the streets of Portland, Oregon pulling antiracism protesters off the street and into unmarked vehicles. Viral videos have shown men in camouflage gear grabbing protesters from the [...]

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How to Turn Our Anger into a Better Future

What can make this moment’s passion positive? What can make this moment’s anger future-seeking? COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a white knee crushing a Black neck. A dream so long deferred suddenly exploded in city after city. What’s next? From [...]

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Trump’s ‘Plan’ Is Simply to Make the Virus and Its Casualties Disappear

America’s rightward march culminating in Trump’s presidency has brought us to this moment where we are dying from a virus that other nations have managed to control. When schoolchildren across the United States began their summer break, President Donald Trump had more than two months to bring the coronavirus crisis under control in time for [...]

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Bats With Napalm Vests And Other Great American Innovations

(World BEYOND War) Nicholson Baker’s new book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, is staggeringly good. If I point out any minor complaints with it, while ignoring, for example, the entirety of Trump’s latest press conference, this is because flaws stand out in a masterpiece while making [...]

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Trump Names Bill Stepien New Campaign Manager In Reshuffling

“Stepien has less than four months to turn the Trump campaign around. A large focus will be toward securing battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.” President Donald Trump made a drastic change to his reelection team Wednesday when he named Bill Stepien the new campaign manager. Stepien previously served as the deputy campaign [...]

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Evictions Projected To Skyrocket In Coming Months

“Eviction is a very public experience that impacts the entire community. Your belongings are dumped on the street while your children and neighbors watch. Given the high degree of tension we are already experiencing, I don’t think that’s a dynamic we want to test.” Housing experts and economists are warning of a looming housing “apocalypse” [...]

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