Here Are the Major Drug Reform Initiatives Looming on the Ballot

With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials are still counting petitions in some cases. Marijuana legalization will be on the ballot in two states and could also [...]

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How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great alarm—that the coronavirus could be transmitted from human to human. The contagiousness of this virus led the WHO to make the [...]

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‘The World Is Watching’: Amnesty Report Details Human Rights Violations by US Police During Racial Justice Protests

The use of force detailed in the report “is ultimately a symptom of the very issue that started these protests: unaccountable police violence.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In a report titled “The World is Watching,” Amnesty International USA revealed on Tuesday that U.S. police violated the human rights of protesters, medics, journalists, and other people [...]

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Take On the Tech Mob Now or Perish

If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, while Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook only added wealth. In just three months, April through June, so many workers were [...]

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With Microsoft Purchase of TikTok, US Tightens Grip Over International Media

Even as the government attempts to frame the debate over the banning of Chinese companies like TikTok and Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the encryption of data and communications at home. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Following Donald Trump’s Friday announcement that he would ban the popular Chinese-owned video platform, Microsoft has [...]

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COVID-19 Crisis Highlights Big Meat Companies’ Lack of Openness

Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S. Big meat companies have always shrouded their inhumane practices in colorless euphemisms, using words like “harvest” and “process” to refer to [...]

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US Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the US, Not China

The U.S. must stop pursuing its counterproductive effort to undermine China, and instead work with all our neighbors on this small planet. Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around [...]

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Trump Attacks Nevada Mail-In Voting as ‘Coup,’ Threatens Court Action

The president’s attack on the Nevada mail-in voting initiative elevates the state’s position as a strong predictor of the presidential victor, having only chosen two losers in over the past 100 years. President Donald Trump has renewed his campaign against absentee by attacking a Nevada mail-in voting initiative. The measure was passed by the state [...]

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How Trump Has Cast China as Enemy Number One

According to a poll, 53% of Americans view China as an “enemy” One week ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a fiery speech on China at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Many of the talking points are familiar to those who have followed the White House’s official statements on China, but what effect has [...]

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Georgia Prisoners Riot Against Prison Conditions

“It was a hellhole long before COVID happened.” Prisoners at Georgia’s Ware State Prison rioted Sunday after reports of high tensions due to coronavirus cases and poor living conditions. Two staff members and three prisoners were injured in the altercation. Some reports say the unrest began after a power outage in the facility, and families [...]

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ACLU Vs. Trump in ‘The Fight’

The legal battles between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration is the subject of a new documentary, The Fight. The legal battles between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Trump administration is the subject of a new documentary The Fight, depicting the former as noble advocates and the latter as a [...]

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