When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media

The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled “Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic” accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to quash opposition and oppress democracy. The article sources its jarringly propagandistic claims in multiple US government-funded narrative management operations like the Wilson Center and the National Endowment [...]

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Our Lungs Are Under Attack—We Must Protect Them to Stay Alive

Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon. (Common Dreams) Since I was a child in the 1980’s I have heard calls to protect the Amazon. I remember watching videos of massive trees being cut down, soil washed away, and areas of lush forest burnt and cleared. I was told [...]

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Why the Idea of Jobless Benefits Scares the Conservative Mind

The coronavirus pandemic has allowed us to conduct an experiment on how government assistance is good for people and the economy. When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income they’ve been demanding for years: $600 a week, which works out to $15 an [...]

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Fauci Expresses Optimism for Vaccine in House Testimony

“We are going very quickly. I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccine.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Friday. Fauci expressed [...]

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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19

Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) is dangerous not only for the United States, but for all of the world. [...]

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Trump’s Vaccine Chief Picks His Own Former Employer—Where He Still Holds Millions Worth of Stock—for $2.1 Billion Deal

“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former pharmaceutical executive’s involvement in the administration’s decision. The deal is for 100 million doses of a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi, [...]

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Corporate Constitutional Rights are Cancerous to Democracy

We must take these public health choices out of the hands of corporate executives and put corporations in their proper place: subservient to public welfare. (Common Dreams) Should constitutional rights be used to shield corporations from hiding their dangerous products from the public? A recent federal court decision says so. Monsanto is the maker of [...]

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Big Tech Giants are Forcing Their Way into America’s Public Health System

A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future role of technology in the public sphere. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), a Big Tech [...]

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Narrative Is Crumbling

“Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what’s going on in the world because if the public understood what’s going on in the world, they would rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful.” Narrative is crumbling. (Caitlin Johnstone) It’s difficult to understand what’s going on in the world. It’s difficult [...]

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Death of America’s Democracy?

We should not fool ourselves: It could happen here. (Common Dreams) On Sept. 11, 1973, I was living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. That morning, one of my roommates, a Chilean journalist, unexpectedly returned home. “The military just bombed my radio station,” she said. “There’s a military coup.” What we had [...]

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Trump Has No Power to Delay Election as He Suggests

“Never in the history of the federal elections have we ever not held an election and we should go forward with our election.” With the US elections nearly three months away, President Donald Trump tweeted the idea of postponing the event reported. Despite his concerns over mail-in voting, Trump has no power to delay the [...]

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