The celebration will take place on Saturday February 7 at 1:30pm at Grace Baptist Church, 484 E San Fernando St, San Jose. Here's a heads-up from Barby's son Craig and daughter Karen: We so look forward to seeing you on February 7th to celebrate Barby at Grace Baptist Church in…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies, January 23, 2026 in Common Dreams At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining apartment towers, luxury developments, and sweeping views of the Mediterranean. There were…
What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially? By Ramzy Baroud in Common Dreams, December 14, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is reportedly set to be announced before the…
"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams, August 20, 2025 As the US backs Israel's plans to occupy Gaza and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, a solid majority of Americans say the world…
Members of Congress introduced the first ever bill that proactively seeks to prevent the U.S. from sending some of the worst weapons to the Israeli military. The Gaza Healthy Ministry confirmed 59,219 people have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military since October 7, 2023, with human rights organizations…
by Caitlin Johnstone, June 24, 2025 Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN reports did no lasting damage, and Iran exercised extraordinary restraint with symbolic retaliatory strikes on US military bases coordinated to avoid American casualties — a move…
Emerging generations learned that moral concerns about their country’s engagement in faraway wars meant little to policymakers in Washington. by Norman Solomon, Apr 30, 2025 in Common Dreams Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the…
By Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, April 4, 2025 in War is a Crime We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government should stop destroying, privatizing, firing, and…
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…
We must understand that to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine, we must also develop a longer-term strategy that contends with the growing power of far-right forces here in the U.S. by Lara Kiswani, January 9, 2025 in Common Dreams It has been over 450 days since Israel began its…
