Archive for category: COMMON DREAMS
Meena Miriam Yust, Arshad M. Khan
Waves pound against the shore of Plum Island in Massachusetts, the day after a winter storm. (David L. Ryan/Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
“If the xenophobia isn’t doing the trick and providing a good enough distraction, there’s always the classic authoritarian move: gin up a war.”
Jake Johnson, staff writer
“It’s so unbelievably shocking to see corporate lawyers actively discussing having foreign investors use ISDS to challenge countries over their coronavirus lockdown measures, and try to extract ‘expected future profits’ from them.”
Jake Johnson, staff writer
“Trump’s corporate-friendly executive order aimed at rolling back even more regulations that protect the public is just the latest sign that his solution to the pandemic is the opposite of what the public needs.”
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
“The economy is currently approaching a knife edge in how recovery will proceed.”
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
“We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season.”
In the U.S., a variety of evangelical religious leaders have failed the test of reasoned public policy in outrageous ways. (Photo: CC)
The American people are therefore entitled to share in the benefits and the profits. Banking needs to be made a public utility. (Photo: Twitter/@publicbankla)
A right-wing protester holds a sign which reads “Be like Sweden” while another called the coronavirus pandemic a “fake crisis” during an April anti-lockdown demonstration in Minnesota. (Photo: AP)