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New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks concluded a bruising week on a positive note Friday, rallying as President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency and set the stage for more testing in the United States.A late-afternoon surge enabled the Dow to finish almost 2,000 points higher, or…

The Defense Department is working closely with the Department of Health and Human Services and State Department to provide support in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. The Defense Department is adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic and leaders at all levels are looking at resources, processes and personnel needed to fight…

The Defense Department is working closely with the Department of Health and Human Services and State Department to provide support in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is an all-out war that's being approached as a large-scale military campaign, the commander of North American Aerospace…

Seventh in a series commemorating Women's History Month by spotlighting a significant speech or testimony delivered by a woman in the U.S. on this date. Born in China, raised in Brooklyn, Bette Bao Lord has explored the political currents of Chinese communism and American democracy in her fiction and nonfiction. Author of…

Democrats have been at "crazy" for a long time, issuing dire warnings of doomsday in order to come up with a rationale for expanding government.  With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that's been their rationale, since socialism doesn't exactly sell with the broader U.S. public — just ask…

“Against the City of the Rich” was the rallying cry used to advertise a demonstration in Berlin on ... May 1, 2019. radikale-linke.net The rich in Germany are increasingly becoming the explicit target of hate. The most recently example of hate-speech directed at the rich occurred during a strategy conference…

Canadian artist Raven releases her debut EP, ‘Flames’, on Rekids on April 10.Up until now, Raven has been cutting her teeth as a DJ, producer and performer, living a nomadic lifestyle between LA, Chicago, Berlin, Toronto and Mexico City.Read this next: How the fall of the Berlin Wall forged an…

Irreverence is the champion of liberty, and its only sure defence…— Mark TwainCreativity — satire and theatricality — is a decisive weapon in the non-violent armoury of Safdar Hashmi’s legacy. Actor-theatreperson Sudhanva Deshpande’s recent book Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi (LeftWord Books), published in Hindi and…

China reacted to Covid–19 with quarantines for vast numbers of people. Yet media outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal tell us that we won’t do anything so draconian here in the US. Why not? As I watch the Democratic primaries, I hear Senator Sanders promote socialism, an idea that many…

How’s This For A Creepy Tweet From TSA? by Gary Leff on March 4, 2020 The TSA responded to one of my tweets, divulging personal information about me, and it’s a reminder of how much freedom we’ve given up in the name of a false sense of security. Growing up…