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Western Governments Collectively Punishing Syrian Civilians with Criminal Economic Embargoes By Tom Duggan, June 05 2020

The Syrian Government is trying to keep medicine at an affordable price for the consumer by limiting the price of medicines, but the pharmaceutical industry inside Syria needs to raise the prices to sustain production.

This is due to two

Trudeau’s Cowardly and Cynical Pursuit of a United Nations Security Council Seat By Arnold August, June 05 2020

During a daily press briefing in Ottawa this Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued parasitizing on calamitous issues to increase the tempo of his bid for election to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat next June 17. How else

Video: Turkish-led Forces Capture Tripoli Airport and Advance Even Further By South Front, June 05 2020

On June 3, the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) announced a military offensive to capture Tripoli Airport from the Libyan National Army (LNA) and push the LNA back from the southern suburbs of the city of Tripoli itself.

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Two U.S. Senators Determined to Stop Nord Stream 2 by Imposing Extra Sanctions By Paul Antonopoulos, June 05 2020

The Nord Stream 2 project involves the construction of two gas pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. The gas pipeline will run through the

The Lancet Published a Fraudulent Covid-19 Study: Editor Calls It “Department of Error” By Alliance for Human Research Protection, June 05 2020

On May 22, 2020, The Lancet published “Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine With or Without A Macrolide For Treatment of COVID-19: a Multinational Registry Analysis”.  It was described as an observational study purportedly involving more than 96,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients in  671

Police Use Contact Tracing and Big Tech to Identify Protesters By MassPrivatel, June 05 2020

Countless warnings about how law enforcement could use contact-tracing apps to monitor people have gone unheeded.  

As BGR.com revealed police are using contact tracing to identify protester’s affiliations.

“According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon, officials there have been

The World Desperately Needs the Wisdom of Bobby Kennedy Now More than Ever By Matthew Ehret-Kump, June 05 2020

Today’s fires which have spread across America in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the knee of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin has presented America with the chance to do some serious soul searching. It has also presented

Unemployment Far Worse in Lockdown States, Data Show By Abigail Devereaux, June 05 2020

The novel coronavirus has done severe economic damage all over the globe. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) stated on June 1, 2020 that it could take nearly a decade for the economy to grow back to levels forecasted this January

Human COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Unnecessary, Uninformative, and Unethical By William A. Haseltine, June 05 2020

Deliberately infecting healthy human volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to test the efficacy of potential COVID-19 vaccines is unnecessary, uninformative, and unethical. And it risks destroying trust in the integrity of science and medicine for generations to come.

5G, the New Track of the Arms Race By Manlio Dinucci, June 05 2020

At Nellis air base in Nevada – the Pentagon announced – the construction of an experimental 5G network which will begin in July, the network will be fully operational in January of next year.

In this base, Red Flag, the …

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Extraordinary Disconnect Between Stock Prices and Economic Collapse By Stephen Lendman, June 05 2020

US equity prices are near or at all-time highs at a time of unprecedented economic collapse, a festering main street Depression, unemployment way higher than in the 1930s, with no prospect for a V-shaped recovery, only its illusion.

The Wall …

Obama’s Essay on Protests: Maintaining the Status Quo By Robert Fantina, June 05 2020

Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the current civil unrest and ongoing racial injustice. While most people recognize his intelligence, especially when compared to the irrational blustering of his successor, his calm, measured opinion on how the nation

Russia’s Invitation to G7 Summit Sparks Debate By Kester Kenn Klomegah, June 05 2020

The rescheduling of the Group of Seven (G7) summit from late June to September and Russia’s invitation to participate alongside Australia, India and South Korea has sparked discussions among both Russian officials and experts.

The Kremlin reported that Russian President

The Shallow Deep-State Goes Deeper as It Moves Toward Martial Law By Edward Curtin, June 05 2020

I am not trying to be cute and play with words.  That title is meant to convey what it says, so let me explain.

The people who own the United States and their allies around the world have a plan.

How Endless War Contributes to Police Brutality By Bonnie Kristian, June 05 2020

The indefensible death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers and the indiscriminate police violence in subsequent protests have returned police misconduct to the center of our national conversation.

It is not a conversation we may quickly …

Israel Is, Like the US, Prime Target for New Mass Uprising By Michael Jansen, June 05 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be very worried over the US-wide protests by African-Americans and their supporters against the murder by smothering of a black man by a white police officer on May 25.

Having announced he would begin …

The DOJ Has Launched an Investigation as More Evidence Emerges that Someone Is Orchestrating the Violent Riots By Michael Snyder, June 05 2020

The Department of Justice has announced that it is attempting to determine if there is a “coordinated command and control” behind the violent riots that have erupted all over the United States.  In recent days, officials all over the country

The Media Has Conveniently Forgotten George W. Bush’s Many Atrocities By James Bovard, June 05 2020

Former president George W. Bush has returned to the spotlight to give moral guidance to America in these troubled times. In a statement released on Tuesday, Bush announced that he was “anguished” by the “brutal suffocation” of George Floyd

The Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination By Edward Curtin, June 05 2020
Robert Kennedy was a marked man. And he knew it. That he was nevertheless willing to stand up to the forces of hate and violence that were killing innocents at home and abroad is a testimony to his incredible courage and love of country. To honor him requires that we discover the truth about those who killed him.
Biothreat From the US on the Rise. America’s Biological Defense Program By Vladimir Platov, June 04 2020

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate many nations of the world, the global community and media outlets have been increasingly focusing on questionable activities being carried out at biolabs financed by funds from the US Department of Defense budget.

Russia OKs Use of Nukes in Response to Non-Nuclear Attacks By Erika Williams, June 04 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new government policy for nuclear deterrence on Tuesday that allows the use of nuclear weapons in response to conventional arms attacks.  

Russia says its nuclear weapons are developed in order to deter potential attacks …

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester By Jay Stanley, June 04 2020

This article was originally published on ACLU in September 2016.

The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what

The American Empire Is Falling Apart. But Things Can Always Get Worse By Oscar Rickett, June 04 2020

The American empire is in decay, but that doesn’t mean things can’t get worse. Protests that erupted over the police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, continue to rage across the United States. 

Each new day sees …

The CIA Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’ Is History’s Warning in 2020 By John Pilger, June 04 2020

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter?

Secret letters written …

13 Killed and 9,300 Arrested as United States Attempts to Halt National Unrest By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 04 2020

More than 20,000 National Guard deployed in 29 states along with thousands more local, federal and military troops cannot quell the anger of African Americans and their allies

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced in a press conference on …

How American Cities Were Reduced to Esper’s “Battlespace”: From Fallujah to Minneapolis By Prof. Juan Cole, June 04 2020

The Bush administration’s war of aggression on and military occupation of Iraq that began in 2003 shifted the United States to a militaristic society. Some 2.7 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, an astonishing number. The Bush administration

When Profits and Politics Drive Science: The Hazards of Rushing a Vaccine at “Warp Speed” By Ellen Brown, June 04 2020

More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death rate is climbing but because it is falling – to the point

Court Rejects Trump Administration’s Illegal Land Swap to Bulldoze Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge By Center For Biological Diversity, June 04 2020

A federal court late Monday shut down the Interior Department’s second attempt at an illegal land exchange with the King Cove Corporation to put a road through vital protected wetlands in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

“For the second time, the

War on Press Freedom in the US By Stephen Lendman, June 04 2020

Cops on US streets are instruments of state power.

Serving and protecting privileged interests at the expense of the public welfare, they follow orders from higher authorities in their departments, handed down from the ruling class at the federal, state

The Face of Rebellion: George Floyd and the Struggle Against Racism By Donald Monaco, June 04 2020

America burns.  Its streets are inflamed by an existential rage born of violence, dehumanization and despair. Trampled underfoot of a police jackboot for too long, the oppressed are striking back with a ferocious anger that has simmered for decades.  The

Operating Outside the Rule of Law: Washington Pressures International Criminal Court By Philip Giraldi, June 04 2020

There is apparently no limit to what the United States and Israel can get away with without any consequences. The United States has been waging devastating economic warfare against Iran and Venezuela while also blaming China for a global health

Surgisphere: Governments and WHO Changed COVID-19 Policy Based on Suspect Data From Tiny US Company By Melissa Davey, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, and Sarah Boseley, June 04 2020

We bring to the attention of our readers selected quotes from a report published by The Guardian.

“The World Health Organization and a number of national governments have changed their Covid-19 policies and treatments on the basis of flawed data …

Stop Trump’s Police State and Dictatorship! By Massoud Nayeri, June 04 2020

Only the working people and youth from the different communities are able to stop Trump’s police state and dictatorship.

Democrats are divided between cowards and silent disguised Trump supporters.

Both Democratic and Republican parties are fearful of the potential power

Why America’s “Revolution” Won’t be Televised. No one is Aiming at the Empire By Pepe Escobar, June 04 2020

The Revolution Won’t Be Televised because this is not a revolution. At least not yet. 

Burning and/or looting Target or Macy’s is a minor diversion. No one is aiming at the Pentagon (or even the shops at the Pentagon Mall).

US Police Forces Are Trained by Israel: The Knee-On-Neck Tactic that Was Used on George Floyd Is the Same Tactic that Has Been Used on the Palestinians By Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 04 2020

George Floyd, an African-American man who was murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and three others in Minneapolis, Minnesota for trying to use a counterfeit $20 dollar bill at a store, now violent protests has overtaken

Democrats Casually “Blame Russia” for the Riots By Paul Antonopoulos, June 04 2020

The riots engulfing the U.S. were provoked by Moscow, according to National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017 and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, Susan Rice. She even took it

None of Your Business: China, Hong Kong and a Question of Sovereignty By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 04 2020

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam seemed to relish it before the cameras this week.  The United States was enduring extensive shudders of internal instability in the wake of the George Floyd protests.  Dubious proposals to deploy the military

Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 03 2020

The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order

by Michel Chossudovsky

In the expanded second edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of …

The “Corona Hoax”, The Proliferation of Racial Riots. Towards a Military Lockdown? By Peter Koenig, June 03 2020

The “leak“– this time from the German Ministry of the Interior – shows a “secret” 93-page document, admitting basically how badly Germany reacted to the corona hoax – no, the paper doesn’t call it a ”hoax”, but you can taste

U.S. Empire: Biden and Kerry Gave Orders to Ukraine’s President Poroshenko By Eric Zuesse, June 03 2020

On May 19th, an implicit international political warning was issued, but it wasn’t issued between countries; it was issued between allied versus opposed factions within each of two countries: U.S. and Ukraine. In the United States, it’s a Republican Party

US Anti-China Rage By Stephen Lendman, June 03 2020

China’s political, economic, industrial, technological, and military development poses the greatest threat to US hegemonic aims.

Its growing prominence on the world stage comes at a time of US decline.

The harder the US tries to reverse things by hardline …

Turkey Faced with Revolt Among Its Syrian Proxies Over Libyan Incursion By Ahmad Al Khaled, June 03 2020

Relations between Turkey and Syrian armed groups that used to be considered cordial due to massive support provided by the Turkish authorities to the Syrian opposition are rapidly deteriorating over Turkey’s incursion into the Libyan conflict, according to sources among

Seeking Truth and Finding Oil By Greg Guma, June 03 2020

In a new political detective story, set in the Middle East, Charlotte Dennett combines oil pipeline politics, relentless journalism and a revealing family biography to unravel the Great Game

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All families have unsolved mysteries, stories lost or rarely told. …

Agents Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property By Alan MacLeod, June 03 2020

The United States is on fire. Since the police killing of George Floyd on May 26, millions have taken to the streets in protest, clashing with police. At least 11 people have died, and thousands have been arrested. 15

Harry Potter, British Spies, and the Arms Corporations Penetrating UK Schools By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis, June 03 2020

GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, is secretively promoting arms companies involved in war crimes to British school children, apparently without the informed consent of parents, it can be revealed.

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Declassified UK can reveal that a secretive GCHQ programme …

Confronting Institutional Racism By Dr. Jack Rasmus, June 03 2020

A week ago in Minneapolis, for all the world to see, a black man, George Floyd, was murdered by a policeman, Derek Chauvin.  Protests broke out in nearly 100 American cities, and even worldwide, and have continued now

Military Occupation of America Begins By Kurt Nimmo, June 03 2020

It now seems certain the social lockdown imposed during the COVID scare will be extended with a “second wave” blamed in part on people protesting the police execution of George Floyd. 

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As US Protests Show, the Challenge Is How to Rise Above the Violence Inherent in State Power By Jonathan Cook, June 03 2020

Here is one thing I can write with an unusual degree of certainty and confidence: Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would not have been charged with the (third-degree) murder of George Floyd had the United States not been teetering on

Shocking Evidence that Indicates that “Somebody” Is Trying to Orchestrate an Internal Uprising Inside the United States By Michael Snyder, June 03 2020

Violence has erupted in major cities all over America yet again today, and we are being told to brace ourselves for more rioting, looting and civil unrest in the days ahead. The death of George Floyd was a great tragedy,

Lancet Issues Major Disclaimer on Anti-HCQ Study, as Manufactured Disinformation Foments Hysterics By Zero Hedge, June 03 2020

The Lancet has issued a major disclaimer regarding a study which prompted the World Health Organization to halt global trials of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), an anti-Malaria drug currently being used around the world to treat COVID-19.

As we noted last week, …

World Solidarity Builds in the Struggle to End United States Racism By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 03 2020

People around the globe have been horrified by the video images of 46-year-old African American George Floyd being executed by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

Darnella Frazier, a 17-year-old African American woman, captured the horrendous act on her …

Video: Battle for Tripoli Airport 2.0 By South Front, June 03 2020

A new round of intense fighting has broken out between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Turkish-backed forces near Tripoli.

During the past few days, fighters from the Government of National Accord (GNA) and Syrian militants supported by the Turkish

Why US Governments Failed to Destroy the Cuban Revolution By Shane Quinn, June 03 2020

Washington’s failure to overthrow communism in Cuba has been a source of extreme irritation for successive American leaders. The inability of the world’s strongest country to bend Cuba to its will has been nothing if not remarkable.

Even so, a

Avoiding the Obvious: Skim Reading, Exams and the Internet By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 03 2020

It is the anxiety-inducing nightmare for the studious: A dream where you find yourself in an exam hall, which might, on ordinary days, be a gym or some other facility.  It is repurposed for that most cruel of blood sports:

Video: Terrified Trudeau Shuts Down Parliament to Save From Answering for Missing Billions By Kip Simpson, June 03 2020

“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recently extended his parliamentary shutdown, effectively shielding himself from criticism as he goes on an unprecedented spending spree using Canadian taxpayers’ dollars.”

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Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks By Colin Todhunter, June 03 2020

The food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns that were implemented on the back of the coronavirus may have long-lasting consequences. We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply

The Black Panther Party. The Battle against Poverty, Racism, Imperialism and Police Brutality By Hugo Turner, June 03 2020

 Dedicated to my friend and Comrade Marland X @CharlieMBrownX

In my last article I dealt with the life of Black Panther Party Founder Huey P. Newton. (image below right) I also discussed the origins of the Black Panther Party or

“Black Lives Matter”: Tamir Rice and the Meaning of “No Justice – No Peace” By Glen Ford, June 03 2020

This article was originally crossposted from Black Agenda Report in 2015.

If the existing structures of governance and social organization cannot provide justice for Black people, then those structures must be pushed aside – or there will be no

Facts Vs. Fake. A Worldwide Lockdown of Everything By Peter Koenig, June 03 2020

Do you know who coined the curse, “conspiracy theory” or accusation, “you are conspiracy theorist!” – It was nobody less than the CIA in the 1950s, to silence those who saw through the lie of the Cold War against the

The Obama – Flynn Connection By Renee Parsons, June 02 2020

It is more than a coincidence that as the coronavirus (Covid 19) continues to peak and then peak again, millions of Americans remain In Shelter; thereby out-of-the-loop about the most significant political corruption crisis in American history; especially as on-going

George Floyd Murder Enflames US. America Is a Failed State By Shenali D Waduge, June 02 2020

On 26 May 2020 social media watched a black man (George Floyd) handcuffed and pinned to the pavement pleading to the 4 white American police officers – ‘I can’t breathe’. Onlookers watching George, whose neck was being pressed

Susan Rice Goes Full Conspiracy Rant on CNN: ‘Russians Behind Race Protest Mayhem!’ By Zero Hedge, June 02 2020

“This is fuxxing lunacy — conspiratorial madness of the worst kind — but it’s delivered by a Serious Obama Official and a Respected Mainstream Newscaster so it’s all fine,” Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald fired off in response to a CNN

Protestors Defy Curfew as Raleigh Values Property Over Life By Danica Jorden, June 02 2020

After a night of heavy-handed riot police response to pockets of youthful protestors in its gentrified downtown, Raleigh mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin announced an absolute curfew on Monday, June 1, 2020, starting at 8:00 pm. Under the curfew, no one is

Beyond Epidemiology and Economics. The Shutdown’s Devastating Impacts on Education, Health, Family, Religion, Civil Society … By Dr. Lisa Mccusker, June 02 2020

Since the Covid-19 shutdown began, the media has framed it as a shutdown of the economy, making resistance to it appear to be about putting profit over life. This is not an accurate description of the shutdown. The shutdown policy

George Floyd Endgame: Martial Law and a Police State By Kurt Nimmo, June 02 2020

It is disturbing to hear people who should know better describe the George Floyd riots as anarchism. The riots are not anarchistic, they are nihilistic. The people engaged in looting, arson, and widespread assault have zero comprehension of political philosophy.

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation By John W. Whitehead, June 02 2020

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how

Palestine: Surrendering or Preparing for a Third Intifada? By Elijah J. Magnier, June 02 2020

Through its failed foreign policy, the US administration has unwittingly and unwillingly become the greatest supporter of the “Axis of the Resistance” led by Iran. Along with Israel, Washington is, in fact, globally encouraging countries to rebel against its dominance.

To the Commercial Heavens We Go! SpaceX, NASA and Space Privatisation By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 02 2020

It would be too simple to regard the latest space venture, funded by Elon Musk, as entirely a matter of vast ego and deeply-pocked adventurism. But it would be close.  The successful delivery of astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken

Save the Life of Imprisoned Indian Public Intellectuals and Social Justice Activists By Dr. Ashok Kumbamu, June 02 2020

Chief Justice of India
5, Krishna Menon Marg
New Delhi, 110011
India

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We, the undersigned, demand the release of public intellectuals and social justice activists, Prof. G.N. Saibaba and Varavara Rao, who are imprisoned in fabricated cases and

The Bank of Canada: In Crisis and Beyond By Prof. Scott Aquanno, June 02 2020

Viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as a purely exogenous shock, Canadian economists and policymakers have tended to predict a quick return to economic growth once health restrictions are lifted. As an account of current events, this turns a blind eye to

Government Mischief in an Age of Coronavirus By Philip Giraldi, June 02 2020

It is interesting to watch how the folks in Congress and the White House have been using the at-least- somewhat self-generated crisis over COVID-19 to serve as cover for legislation and other activities that many Americans just might object to.

Black Lives Matter: The Perils of Liberal Philanthropy By Prof. Karen Ferguson, June 02 2020

This carefully research article first published in 2016 shows that Black Lives Matter has been funded by philanthropists and corporate foundations including Soros’ Open Society Initiative  and the Ford Foundation which has links to the CIA.

The underlying objective is

Video: Who’s Funding the Protest Movement? Who’s Behind it? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 02 2020

Author’s Note

This interview was first published in November 2011. It focussed on the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, both of which were funded by corporate foundations.

Who is behind the protest movements in the US?

Who is behind

Video: Syrian Air Force Received Batch of MIG-29 Jets From Russia By South Front, June 02 2020

Russia has intensified its military involvement in the Syrian conflict.

On May 30, Syrian state media announced that it had received a batch of MiG-29 multirole fighters from Russia. Damascus did not provide details regarding the number of the received

Combat Troops Coming to US Streets? By Stephen Lendman, June 02 2020

In his book titled “The Psychology Science (1966),” psychologist Abraham Maslow said the following:

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

Others made similar …

Nicaragua – False Witness, False Memory. COVID-19 and Nicaragua’s Community Approach to Health Care By Stephen Sefton, June 02 2020

On Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The standard Western canonical sources of record, namely international institutions, non-governmental organizations and media outlets, practically universally contend that all three countries are authoritarian or even tyrannical regimes, denying their peoples’ basic democratic rights. The

The Pandemic Revives Fears the U.S. Is Developing ‘Ethnic Bioweapons’ Against Russia By Max Parry, June 02 2020

It has been 75 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Russia postponed its annual Victory Day celebrations last month due to the health crisis as

Breaking the Paralysis of Servitude. A New Normal Based on Fear Based Uniformity By Julian Rose, June 02 2020

It has become abundantly clear that ‘we the people’ are being subjected to a divisive and derisive ‘leadership’ pantomime of truly global proportions and we cannot any longer simply hope some sanity will emerge to change this situation. 

Stand back

American workers
Exponentially Rising Hunger in America By Stephen Lendman, June 02 2020

How is it possible that anyone could go hungry in the world’s richest country?

The scourge of neoliberal indifference toward public welfare caused the disturbing reality.

It’s the American way, supported by both right wings of the one-party state — …

Focus on Looting Detracts From Racism By Robert Fantina, June 02 2020

As people of conscience in the United States rage against the institutional racism most recently demonstrated in the savage, brutal murder of George Floyd, President Donald Trump and a government-compliant media are struggling to take control of the narrative.

This …