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Venezuela Receives Chinese Medical Supplies To Fight COVID-19
After pointing out that it was the ninth shipment sent by Chinese authorities, she recalled that over 274 tons of equipment, medical inputs, and medicines have been received so far this year. Rodriguez also mentioned that Venezuela is nowadays a victim of ...[Read more]
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We Don’t Have to Keep Shoveling Money to Big Ag
Big Ag had a field day last year at the federal trough, gulping down more subsidies than ever before. We can do much better — promoting sustainable farming while empowering farmworkers and challenging the power of Big Ag. ...[Read more]
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Rioter wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirt is arrested, according to law enforcement.
A man who was photographed wearing a T-shirt that read Camp Auschwitz€ while inside the Capitol last week was arrested in Newport News, Va., in connection to the riot. ...[Read more]
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US coronavirus death toll passes 400,000 amid grim forecast over winter
More than 400,000 Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, a horrific marker of the misery the virus has spread across the country, as the rate of deaths from Covid-19 increases. The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reported ...[Read more]
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Georgia officially launches investigation into Trump’s demand for election official to ‘find’ votes for him
Georgia is among the battleground states where Donald Trump and his allies vigorously fought the Electoral College victory of Now-President Joe Biden. But despite tremendous pressure from Trump and his supporters, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffenspe ...[Read more]
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‘She-Wees’ and Plastic Bags: Amazon’s Pee Scandal Is Much Worse for Women
Last week, as part of a public relations attempt to combat negative media coverage amid a high-stakes union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the company's official "Amazon News" Twitter account defended its working conditions. "You don’t real ...[Read more]
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Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General Turned Fierce Critic of U.S. Militarism, Dies at Age 93
Former U.S. attorney general and longtime human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93, and we look back on his life. Clark was credited as being a key architect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He served as ...[Read more]
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Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in murder of George Floyd
On Tuesday, after 11 hours of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin found him guilty on all charges in the murder of George Floyd, a man whose death sparked a massive wave of protests in the summer of 2020. The verdict had been highly anti ...[Read more]
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Video Shows Police Laughing at Footage of Arrest of Woman With Dementia
The woman, who walked out of a Walmart in Loveland, Colo., without paying for $13.88 worth of items, said in a lawsuit that the police had broken a bone in her arm and dislocated her shoulder. ...[Read more]
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Among World Superpowers, US Poses Biggest Threat to Democracy: Global Poll
Almost half of respondents from 53 countries are worried that Washington threatens their democracy, and nearly two-thirds think economic inequality poses the biggest risk to popular rule. Results of the Democracy Perception Index survey (pdf), conducted b ...[Read more]
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Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration
From its headquarters just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies. Less than six months into the Biden ...[Read more]
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