Month: August 2020

Murdering Black boys with toy guns but letting far-right vigilantes kill protesters is not justice. …

The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the sports world on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 26, after the players decided to boycott Game 5 …

The made-for-TV conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties were held to convince us to vote for them. …

A Tennessee a new law could strip protesters of their right to vote. …

As numbers of new U.S. infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain high, as U.S schools reopen and workers are called back into work, and as second waves of infection have begun to show up internationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly changed its COVID-19 guidelines and is recommending less testing in the U.S. …

During the Spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. …

The latest coronavirus “cure”? The highly toxic compound oleandrin, found in the poisonous plant, oleander. …

This week the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another treatment for patients with COVID-19. This treatment relies on blood transfusions from patients who’ve recovered from the virus, and thus are would have antibodies present in their blood. …

Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …

Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …

Trump’s former senior advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud for pocketing donations to a campaign to help build more wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. …

As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. …

As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …

Trump’s recent attacks on the USPS are not the only ones that have happened. The Postal Service has been under attack for decades. …

Women in the U.S. have had the right to vote for a century, but they still suffer from inequality today. …

Even after outrage in the streets, the police cannot control themselves. They shot another unarmed black man. …

For months healthcare workers have been called “heroes.” But what we have also seen is an attack on the working conditions of these very same workers. …

A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …

At the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden began his nomination acceptance speech with a quote from the civil rights activist Ella Baker: “Give people light and they will find a way.” …

Recently, the Trump administration announced a new development in U.S. pharmaceuticals. The Kodak Film Company is expected to be given a $765 million loan to help launch a new wing of the company producing generic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. …

On August 16, it was under this slogan that tens of thousands gathered in Minsk with flowers, balloons and flags …

A desperate Trump has decided to speed up the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to significantly suppress mail-in voting. …

On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …

A Gallup poll recently found that 35% of Americans wouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available right now, at no cost to them …

Just days after a massive explosion in Beirut, Baltimore residents were shaken by an explosion that killed two, injured seven, and flattened three rowhomes …

The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …

Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough …

As August began in New Jersey, we were once again forced to pay for transit. …

For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …

The National Basketball Association, along with the millionaires and billionaires who own the teams, and the mega corporations that invest in …

Filthy Rich, a new docu-series on Netflix, uncovers the horrifying story of financier Jeffery Epstein’s extensive underage sex trafficking …

A single massive chemical explosion at the port killed at least a 137 people and injured five thousand …

This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …

The CDC now recommends looking at symptoms instead of test results to decide when employees can return to work …

Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …

There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …

On July 26, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld death sentences against five Iranian activists …

Climate change is quickly melting the sea ice that polar bears depend on as their hunting ground …

After weeks, and in some places months, of protests following the murder of George Floyd, …