Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Eoin Higgins is senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @EoinHiggins_
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News Thursday, November 14, 2019 'We Don't Want Any Dictators': Bolivians Flood Streets to Protest Right-Wing, Anti-Indigenous Coup Unrest continued in Bolivia Thursday as protests against the right-wing coup that unseated democratically-elected President Evo Morales on Sunday and the anti-Indigenous ideology behind it entered their fourth day. Demonstrators filled the streets of the Bolivian capitol, La Paz, waving the... Read more |
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News Wednesday, November 13, 2019 New Analysis Shows Billionaires' Dream of Space Tourism Would Be Disaster for Emissions, Climate Crisis A new analysis from travel website Champion Traveler shows how the burgeoning space tourism industry favored by many U.S. billionaires could severely worsen the planetary climate crisis by emissions that, in one rocket launch, are equal to nearly 400 transatlantic flights. While the number of... Read more |
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News Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez and Omar Call on Stephen Miller to Resign After Top Trump Aide Exposed as 'Bonafide White Nationalist' Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar on Tuesday decried racist emails from President Donald Trump's advisor Stephen Miller published by the Southern Poverty Law Center and called on the White House aide to resign. "This type of racism and hatred has no place in our government," Omar, a... Read more |
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News Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Latest Israeli Assault on Gaza Continuation of 'Torture and Torment of Palestinians,' Says Jewish Voice for Peace Israel's latest assault Tuesday on the Gaza Strip, the boxed-in sliver of land termed the world's largest open-air prison that houses nearly 2 million Palestinians, drew condemnation from peace advocates around the world. "In the U.S., we must not just watch, yet again, as Israel's massive military... Read more |
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News Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Causing 'Profound' Trauma, Trump Administration Detained Record-Breaking 70,000 Children in 2019 The U.S. held a record 69,550 migrant children in detention facilities in 2019, a Tuesday report from The Associated Press and PBS Frontline found, leading to major psychological and physiscal harm and lasting trauma. "No other country held as many immigrant children in detention over the past year... Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 Calling for an 'End to Violence,' Bernie Sanders Becomes First 2020 Democratic Presidential Contender to Criticize Bolivian Coup Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday became the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to speak out against Sunday's military coup in Bolivia which saw that country's President Evo Morales forced to resign before going into hiding. "I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia,... Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 'American Democracy on Trial': Moyers and Winship Again Call on PBS to Re-Air Hearings in Primetime Veteran journalist Bill Moyers and Common Dreams ' Michael Winship on Monday continued their push to convince PBS to re-air the public impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump beginning this week in prime-time by sending a letter to the station managers of all of the nation's public... Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal The Sunday military coup in Bolivia has put in place a government which appears likely to reverse a decision by just-resigned President Evo Morales to cancel an agreement with a German company for developing lithium deposits in the Latin American country for batteries like those in electric cars. "... Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 'When Will Someone Go to Jail?': New Report Shows Google Secretly Storing Health Data of Millions of Americans A "bombshell" new report from The Wall Street Journal describes a secret project from Google and healthcare giant Ascension to store data on millions of Americans, a move that critics of the tech conglomerate decried as another example of overreach. "When will someone go to jail?" wondered... Read more |
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News Monday, November 11, 2019 Progressives Excoriate Schumer for Mourning as 'Card-Carrying Islamophobe' GOP Rep. Peter King Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was heavily criticized Monday for expressing sorrow at the announcement from Republican Rep. Peter King that the New York congressman would not seek re-election to the U.S. House. "Peter King is an Islamophobe who held McCarthyite hearings targeting American... Read more |