by Phil Wilson in Common Dreams October 23, 2025 I attended the downtown local No Kings Day festivities in Northampton, Massachusetts, and estimate that some 1,500 people came out. I liked the crowds, but the character and will of the people rather collided with the self-serving ambitions of Democratic Party speakers who hogged microphones that

On June 5th 2024, students, alumni and one student reporter from Stanford University were arrested in a sit-in of then-President Richard Saller’s office in protest of Stanford’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now, 11 of them have been indicted on two grand jury charges, making them the first out of more than 3,100 students arrested

By Branko Marcetic in Common Dreams October 15, 2025 There is good news and bad news for critics of the United States’ bloated 21st century war machine. The good news: The “war on terror” is dead. The bad news? It seems to have become a part of the walking dead—a kind of zombie war on

by Julia Conley in Common Dreams, October 7, 2025 Tuesday marked two years since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that killed more than 1,100 people and provoked the Israeli military’s slaughter of over 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and a new report provides an accounting of the United States’ support for the latter—support that made