by Caitlin Johnstone, November 26, 2025 Don’t let the empire gaslight you into believing you are powerless and helpless. There are always things you can do to fight the bastards, and there are always things you can do to improve your own life. It’s so easy to fall into the…
by Caitlin Johnstone, April 11, 2025 As Washington’s cold war with China escalates, we can expect to see a massively reinvigorated anti-China propaganda campaign in the west. As this unfolds, please know that everything you learned about the mass media’s dishonesty regarding Gaza is equally true of empire-targeted nations like…
by Kathy Kelly, Mar 31, 2025 in Common Dreams Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other…
by Jon Rainwater, in Common Dreams, Feb 25, 2025 In the capricious tapestry that is U.S. foreign policy, you can find a recurring pattern: Washington champions sovereignty as a holy principle of the international order when it aligns with its interests—think Ukraine under Biden—but casually disregards it when inconvenient. The…
Americans have a hard road ahead of us working to create a future that is more humane and just, for ourselves and future generations. By Nate Gilliam in Common Dreams, January 28, 2025 Days before taking office, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania launched their own cryptocurrency. His organization…
Trump’s first term was four years of Christmas Days for billionaires and corporate interests, starting with the military-industrial complex. A repeat of that must not be tolerated. by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies, December 30, 2024 in Common Dreams With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return…
We should all be frightened by this use of AI for death and destruction. But this is not new. Israel and the U.S. have been testing and using AI in Palestine for years. by Nuvpreet Kalra, Tim Biondo in Common Dreams Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT…
by Caitlin Johnstone November 29, 2024 This civilization is built upon the practice of continuously hiding inconvenient truths out of sight and out of mind. An entire empire held together by compartmentalization and avoidance. Inconvenient truths are hidden from us in many different ways. They are hidden from our minds…
by Jessica Corbett on Common Dreams Rights advocates want the president to fulfill his "long-standing commitment to turn the page on the 9/11 era by closing this shameful site of torture and indefinite detention." U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday faced pressure from legal groups to accept a military judge's…
by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley Never let your government tell you who your enemies are. It’s not the fault of middle eastern people that they live on top of a bunch of oil near crucial trade routes in a region which bridges three continents. And that’s all this has…
