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  • | Blue Origin Blue Moon | MR Online

    Sanders warns against massive congressional bailout for Bezos space company

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 22, 2022 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2022)

    “At a time when over half of the people in this country live paycheck to paycheck,” the Vermont senator wrote, “should we really be providing a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout for Bezos to fuel his space hobby?”

  • | A mobile advertising board with a Dont Extradite Assange message outside the Old Bailey London | MR Online

    ‘Journalism is not a crime’: Outrage as Judge approves Assange extradition to U.S.

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 20, 2022 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2022)

    “Extraditing Julian Assange to face allegations of espionage for publishing classified information would set a dangerous precedent and leave journalists everywhere looking over their shoulders.”

  • | Rep Alexandria OcasioCortez DNY speaks during an event outside Union Station on June 16 2021 in Washington DC Photo Win McNameeGetty Images | MR Online

    AOC warns failure to cancel student debt has ‘demoralized’ critical voters

    Originally published: Common Dreams on February 15, 2022 (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Feb 17, 2022)

    “This really isn’t a conversation about providing relief to a small, niche group of people,” said the congresswoman. “It’s very much a keystone action politically.” –AOC

  • | From left Kariann Swart Joseph Rosenbaums fiancee Susan Hughes Anthony Hubers great aunt and Hannah Gittings Anthony Hubers girlfriend listen as Kyle Rittenhouse is found not guilty of murder at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 19 2021 | MR Online

    ‘Saddening, infuriating, and utterly unsurprising’: Rittenhouse acquitted

    Originally published: Common Dreams on November 19, 2021 by Brett Wilkins (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2021)

    The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”

  • | Freshly painted banners for the People vs Fossil Fuels protests planned for Oct 11 thru Oct 15 outside the White House The Build Back Fossil Free Coalition is planning the five days of rallies and civil disobedience is calling on the Biden Administration to use its executive authority to declare a climate emergency and immediately stop new fossil fuel projects and crack down on existing production | MR Online

    ‘To change course of history,’ U.S. climate movement takes aim at Biden White House

    Originally published: Common Dreams on October 8, 2021 by Jon Queally (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2021)

    Five days of direct action and civil disobedience are planned this week to denounce “broken promises” and demand ambitious action against the planetary threat.

  • | Firefighters try to put out a fire as flames spread over a highway on August 5 2021 in northern Athens Greece | MR Online

    ‘Code Red for Humanity’: IPCC report warns window for climate action is closing fast

    Originally published: Common Dreams on August 9, 2021 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

  • | Vaccine equity campaigners posing as the leaders of G7 nations tussle over a giant mock syringe on June 11 2021 near Falmouth Cornwall United Kingdom Photo Andrew AitchisonIn Pictures via Getty Images | MR Online

    ‘Little more than a PR gimmick’: Critics say G7 vaccine donation pledges won’t cut it

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 11, 2021 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2021)

    Public health campaigners estimate that promised donations from rich countries would be enough to cover just 11% of the world’s unvaccinated population.

  • | The body of a Palestinian man named Ahmed AlShenbari who was killed during an Israeli raid on Beit Hanoun City is taken to a mortuary on May 11 2021 in Gaza Photo Fatima Shbair via Getty Images | MR Online

    Biden budget would send $1.3 billion more to Israeli military than to Global climate programs: Analysis

    Originally published: Common Dreams on May 11, 2021 by Kenny Stancil (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted May 17, 2021)

    A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden’s spending priorities indicate that he thinks “preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change.”

  • | Protesters wearing masks and holding up signs at a racial justice protest in Foley Square in New York City on June 2 2020 USA Photo Ira L BlackCorbis via Getty Images | MR Online

    International rights experts condemn U.S. police killings as ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 27, 2021 by Julia Conley (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    “The world is not only watching, it’s judging.”

  • | Resident Alyssa Medina reacts while looking over the charred remains of her family home during the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Vacaville California on August 23 2020 Photo Josh EdelsonAFP via Getty Images | MR Online

    ‘What stage of capitalism is this?’ Hedge fund $3 billion richer thanks to wager on wildfire insurance claims

    Originally published: Common Dreams on August 24, 2020 by Kenny Stancil (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2020)

    With over 100,000 people displaced by wildfires raging across California, Baupost Group collected more than $3 billion in July after betting on insurance claims against embattled utility company PG&E.

  • | Protesters march near the Minneapolis 1st police precinct during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on August 24 2020 in Minneapolis Photo Kerem YucelAFP via Getty Images | MR Online

    ‘We Want Justice’: Mass demonstrations and marches erupt Nationwide to protest police shooting of Jacob Blake

    Originally published: Common Dreams on August 25, 2020 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2020)

    “The video that came out of Kenosha is absolutely horrific. I don’t understand how people can watch it and not be here.”

  • | I was enraged simply because I did not think they were taking their oath of office seriously or they were compromising their oath of office Christopher David the 53yearold disabled Navy veteran shown above being attacked and pepper sprayed by federal police So I actually went down because I wanted to talk to them about it Screenshot via TwitterZane SparlingPDXzane | MR Online

    ‘No tactics… just seemed like a gang’: Navy Veteran speaks out after attack by secret police in viral video viewed nearly 10 million times

    Originally published: Common Dreams on July 20, 2020 by Jon Queally (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2020)

    They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David.

  • | An Amazon employee works in the companys warehouse on Staten Island Photo Johannes Eisele AFP via Getty Images | MR Online

    Whitewashing capitalism

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 16, 2020 by Tim Koechlin (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 20, 2020)

    How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality.

  • | Residents of Maplewood South Orange and West Orange march on June 13 2020 in South Orange New JerseyProtests continued across the nation for the 19th day in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer Photo ElsaGetty Images | MR Online

    Atlanta Police shoot and kill Rayshard Brooks as protests demanding racial justice continue worldwide

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 13, 2020 by Jessica Corbett (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 15, 2020)

    “This is not the first time a black man has been killed for sleeping,” said Rev. James Woodall, state president of the Georgia NAACP.

  • | President Donald Trump walks away after making a statement in the Rose Garden on June 1 2020 in Washington DC Photo Chip SomodevillaGetty Images | MR Online

    Demands for Trump removal grow as ‘fascist’ speech condemned as declaration of war against U.S. public

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 2, 2020 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late.”

  • | Violence employed by police and security agencies such as the FBI which have devolved into occupying forces to protect the exclusive interests of a tiny ruling criminal class exposes the fiction of the rule of law and the treason of the ruling elites Photo by Michael CiagloGetty Images | MR Online

    The treason of the ruling class

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 2, 2020 by Chris Hedges (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2020)

    They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state.

  • | Cornel West Neofascist gangster Trump and neoliberal Democrats expose America as failed social experiment | MR Online

    Cornel West: ‘Neo-fascist gangster’ Trump and neoliberal Democrats expose America as ‘failed social experiment’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on May 31, 2020 by Jon Queally (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 01, 2020)

    West explained the current anger over Floyd’s murder by police—one of whom, officer Derek Chauvin, was arrested Friday and charged with 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter—adds to a “perfect storm” of multiple failures and inequities that pre-exist under an American imperial system that people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and others have been warning about since the middle of last century.

  • | President Donald Trump participates in the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 23 2020 in Washington DC Photo by Drew AngererGetty Images | MR Online

    “Please Don’t”: Doctors forced to speak out as Trump ponders aloud whether injecting disinfectants could treat COVID-19

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 24, 2020 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Apr 25, 2020)

    “ALERT! Please do not ingest, inject, inhale, or otherwise use any disinfectant outside of its labeled instructions. And do not start using tanning beds or sunning without sunscreen.”

  • | Minister for Health Simon Harris at a news conference at Government Buildings in Dublin on March 24 where he announced Ireland will nationalize its healthcare system for the duration of the coronavirus outbreak Photo Brian LawlessPA Images via Getty Images | MR Online

    ‘For common benefit of all,’ Ireland nationalizes hospitals for duration of Coronavirus crisis, sparking demand for U.S. to follow suit

    Originally published: Common Dreams on March 26, 2020 by Eoin Higgins (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2020)

    “How wonderful is this. A beautiful silver lining.”

  • | Whoever it was I think theyre a little outnumbered tonight Sen Bernie Sanders IVt said after the man with the Nazi flag was removed from the rally Photo ScreenshotBernie Sanders Campaign via Storyful | MR Online

    Absolutely sickening—and scary’: Man unfurls Nazi flag at Bernie Sanders rally, heightening security concerns

    Originally published: Common Dreams on March 6, 2020 by Jake Johnson (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2020)

    “All people of conscience must condemn this anti-Semitism against the most visible Jewish politician in the country.”

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    The Mapping Project | US military bases around the world Photo Al Jazeera | MR Online

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