30-year-old Sarah McBride was elected to the state parliament of Delaware with a majority of 73 percent of the votes. The first transgender senator advocates a socially just health policy, paid sick leave and the...
In a video, SPÖ Member of Parliament Julia Herr takes a stand on the strange statements made by US President Trump about Austria yesterday. As a reminder: Trump spoke in an interview about the fact...
How does a news agency work? Where does the newspaper get the information from?
We want to know what's happening around us and why. What we can't see for ourselves, we like to be told: Online,...
George Floyd is dead. He was murdered because he was black. 46-year-old Floyd was choked by a Minneapolis police officer during an arrest. George Floyd is not the first victim of black police brutality: According...
Pandemic of inequality in the US: 39 millions lost their jobs in 9 weeks, while billionaires gain $434 billion
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Corona crisis makes the richest even richer: The assets of US billionaires increase by $434 billion during the American lockdown period. The biggest gains were recorded by Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Mark...
Cleveland, USA was once a booming industrial city. When many of the local companies moved to low-wage countries, the city's economy and social fabric collapsed. Mass unemployment and poverty resulted. Twelve years ago, the first...
United States has prevented a Chinese aid shipment of medical supplies to Cuba to combat the novel coronavirus. The North American transport company withdrew from the contract "at the last minute", reports the Cuban ambassador...
Bernie Sanders' „Medicare for All” - a universal health insurance for every American – is the centerpiece of his vision for a more equal America. While some of Sanders' opponents try to label this idea...
Ten years of innocent imprisonment: False rape accusations should break WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
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Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks and has apparently served almost ten years of innocent arrest. In 2010, Assange was accused of raping two women in Sweden and was subsequently prosecuted by various states....
Bernie Sanders is the new frontrunner in the race to become the Democratic nominee, after a substantial win with the Nevada caucus. Who is the man who declares himself a “democratic socialist” seeking to become...